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
Black Christmas (2006)
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
The Thing (1982)
The Thing (1982) — So the second film in my Halloween Movie Marathon [last week] was one of my all-time favorites: John Carpenter’s The Thing. I love movies about paranoia and from the 1950s to late 1980s there were a lot of good ones (gee, I wonder why). There are just so many things this … Continue reading
Let Me In (2010)
Let Me In (2010) — With an almost impossibly high standard to live up to, Cloverfield director Matt Reeves actually managed to make a very good movie. Make no mistake: if you’ve seen Let the Right One In, you know point by point what’s going to happen in this movie. Details are altered but it’s … Continue reading
The Last House on the Left (2009)
The Last House on the Left (2009) — This is the sick ugly fucked-up movie that the 1972 version wanted to be. That version attempted to shock (and at the time did) but has this sort of campy tone that really undercuts the revulsion that the movie is trying to inspire in its viewers. The … Continue reading
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) — In theaters I was just stoked that someone actually made Freddy Krueger scary again. He’s been such a joke-driven comic character for so long people forget that in the original film he was creepy as all hell. Jackie Earle Haley definitely brought that back to the character. No … Continue reading
Piranha 3-D (2010)
Piranha 3-D (2010) — I outright loved this stupid fucking movie. And it is stupid. Oh so stupid. But that’s mostly what I love about it. It’s all about gore and nudity. Mostly female nudity but for those who prefer the fellas there is a penis… it’s just not attached to anyone when it’s shown. … Continue reading
Friday the 13th (2009)
Friday the 13th (2009) — Who among us has not been having sex with a beautiful woman in the woods and then ventured off to investigate a strange noise? Such universally relatable scenarios have formed the basis of the prolific Friday the 13th series [this remake is the 12th film made]. There are always interesting … Continue reading
Sorority Row (2009)
Sorority Row (2009) — Every single bit as stupid as you would expect it to be, and equally hilarious. Seriously. It’s walking that very thin line of “were the writers actually going for funny or is this what passes for good dialogue in their minds?” I’ve never seen the original. I don’t think it would … Continue reading
Halloween (2007)
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
Persistence of Vision 