Sorority House Massacre II (1990)

Sorority House Massacre II (1990) – For about six years of my life, I worked selling DVDs (three years at Suncoast in Sacramento, three years at Virgin Megastore in San Francisco). As you may have gathered about me, I watch a lot of movies. With six years of having a 35% employee discount and a … 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

Scream series

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

Final Destination series

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

American Dad! – “Hot Water”

American Dad! – “Hot Water” American Dad! is a show that I haven’t really watched regularly in a while. I don’t know why not. Every time I do it’s hilarious. I’d dare say that it’s a better show than Seth McFarlane’s more popular Family Guy. A big part of that is that it’s less reliant … Continue reading

Death Race (2008)

Death Race (2008) — So this movie is astonishingly stupid, but really that’s to be expected when you watch a movie called Death Race.  The clever subversive-ness of the 70s flick Death Race 2000 (which is a much smarter stupid movie) is replaced with more gore and crazy violent car crashes.  And it works.  For … Continue reading