Chillerama (2011)
Chillerama (2011) – I’m not going to make any arguments about this being some great work of art but holy shit is it a whole hell of a lot of fun. Joe Lynch directs the frame story, in which a drive-in movie theater is being shut down. The owner (Richard Riehle) decides to go out … Continue reading
Spiral (2007)
Spiral (2007) – So my favorite new horror director of the past several years has to be Adam Green. He created the fantastic slasher movie throwback Hatchet (and its sequel, Hatchet II) and the great survival horror flick Frozen. They’re both horror movies but in a very different vein. Spiral is nothing like either one … Continue reading
Hatchet II (2010)
Hatchet II (2010) – Usually the phrase “more of the same” is a bad thing… usually. Not always. Not this time. The first Hatchet was an awesome throwback to 1980s-style slasher movies. The gore is all old-school practical effects and none of that cartoony CGI shit. The lead actress of the original film, Tamara Feldman, … Continue reading
Frozen (2010)
Frozen (2010) — Director Adam Green made the movie Hatchet with the tagline “Old School American Horror” and it very much followed the 80s slasher formula. For Frozen, he seems to have gone a more realistic “holy fuck if that happened to me I would be so fucking dead” direction. The plot of the film … Continue reading
Hatchet (2006)
Hatchet (2006) — The tagline on the cover of this movie is “Old School American Horror.” For better or worse that’s what you get. A bunch of people go on a “haunted swamp” tour in Louisiana and surprise surprise there is a maniac (or possible ghost) stalking and killing them one by one. Tonally, this … Continue reading
Persistence of Vision 