Aliens (1986)
Aliens (1986) – Sequels suck, or so they say. I personally believe that blanket statements are always wrong. ALWAYS. (See what I did there?) Obviously, everyone can come up with exceptions to the “sequels suck” rule. The Godfather Part II won the Academy Award for Best Picture and is considered by many (yours truly included) … Continue reading
Sorority House Massacre (1986)
Sorority House Massacre (1986) – There is a man some of you may have heard of named Roger Corman. He makes cheap movies. He has for over fifty years. Said cheap movies have given starts to stars like jack Nicholson. Some of them launched the careers of directors like Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme, Martin Scorsese, … Continue reading
Friday the 13th series
I love intelligent horror movies and wish there were more of them. But you know what? I love the dumb ones too. Maybe more. I have no intellectual defense of it, I just like it. I don’t like them “ironically.” I don’t even know what that means really. I am simply entertained. And for big … Continue reading
Blue Velvet (1986)
Blue Velvet (1986) — So I liked things about this movie a lot more than I liked the movie itself. It’s never boring, even if the pace does drag a bit at some points (David Lynch’s original cut ran four hours). More than anything else I like the theme of this movie: the idea that … Continue reading
Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (1986)
Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (1986) — At what point does a series descend into self-parody? It’s not as if the Friday the 13th films ever held to a very standard of excellence but they are what they are and what they are is fucking fun. From the very moment Jason does a … Continue reading
Night of the Creeps (1986)
Night of the Creeps (1986) — Campy fun, but not the classic I had been led to believe it was. There are zero scares in the entire movie but it manages to be enjoyable anyway due to a very dated 80s sense of humor. Ah, the 80s. This was part one of my Halloween Alien-Slugs-Make-People-Into-Zombies … Continue reading
Persistence of Vision 