Posted by moviegeek916 on July 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This article was originally published on 12ftdwende.com 2 April 2010. So I had a vague awareness of the Nightmare on Elm Street series as a small child. I would walk with great trepidation through the horror isle of the video store knowing that here were things not for young’ns like myself. I knew that there … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on April 22, 2012 · 2 Comments
Blazing Saddles (1974) – Let’s have a quick discussion of the N-word. Now anyone who knows me knows I have no qualms about saying all sorts of things that you couldn’t say on television or in so-called “polite society.” It’s just the fucking way I am, god dammit. But n****r is a different thing altogether. … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on April 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Young Frankenstein (1974) – Did anyone think I was going to make my way through all those classic Universal Frankenstein movies and not end up watching this one? Since I’ve been writing reviews I’ve tried to really find a way to characterize what I would consider funny. Too often my reviews of comedies come down … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on October 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The Conversation (1974) – The Conversation opens with… a conversation (THE conversation, in fact). Over the course of the movie that same conversation will be played a million times but the meaning will change. Gene Hackman plays Harry Caul, one of the foremost surveillance experts in the country. He is hiring to record the titular … Continue reading →
Posted by moviegeek916 on September 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Black Christmas (1974) — So Halloween is often credited with establishing the aesthetic of the slasher genre (though some argue that the genre itself goes back to Psycho in 1960). Black Christmas came out in 1974, a full four years before John Carpenter “invented” the modern slasher movie. Bob Clark (who later directed A Christmas … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 