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 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This article was originally published on 12ftdwende.com on 30 April 2010. So a few weeks ago I mentioned that my favorite of the cinematic boogeymen is Freddy Krueger. What can I say, he got me young. From the boxes in the video store to the bits and pieces I’d catch on late night television, that … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on April 13, 2012 · 1 Comment
Slasher flicks thrived in the 1980s but a couple years into the 1990s the horror genre was in a noticeable decline. A screenwriter named Kevin Williamson decided that he wanted the final word on the slasher subgenre. He wrote a screenplay that was simultaneously a parody of and loving tribute to classic flicks like Halloween … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on April 13, 2012 · 1 Comment
This article was originally published on 12ft.dwende.com on 12 August 2011. Sometimes you don’t need a guy in a hockey mask or the ghost of a murderer to haunt your dreams. Sometimes things like a mask of human skin and a chainsaw or an endless knowledge of slasher film trivia are just overkill. Sometimes all … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on October 31, 2011 · Leave a Comment
So Halloween is upon us and this year it occurred to me that I had only seen half of the Halloween films. I decided to rectify that this year. Halloween (1978) You know I kind of go back and forth on Halloween. I last saw it in 2009 and thought that while good it was … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Black Christmas (2006) — So I know the original is a classic and the first modern slasher movie and blah blah blah but I like this one better. Why, you may ask? Because this movie is deliriously fucked-up on damn near every level. It’s not really a “good” movie by any commonly accepted definition, but … 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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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Drag Me to Hell (2009) — Hmmm, I wonder if the two identical envelopes will get mixed up at some point… Alfred Hitchcock believed that suspense existed when the viewer knows something the characters in the movie don’t know. Now maybe that’s true (certainly worked for Hitch) but I think it becomes somewhat nullified when … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Halloween (2007) — There really is a lot to hate about this movie, but watching it back-to-back with the original I liked it better than I remember liking it. While I would hesitate to call it a better movie than the original, I was somewhat more entertained by it. Most of my problems with it … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 6, 2011 · 1 Comment
Halloween (1978) — Watched this today and it was nowhere near as good as I remember it being. Maybe my memories have been colored by all the hype and the iconography. I don’t know. But I remember this movie being more awesome. There’s definitely stuff to like and I did like the movie a lot, … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 