Posted by moviegeek916 on July 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2011) — This article was originally published on 12ftdwende.com on 26 August 2011. What does it mean for a movie to be scary? There’s a few different kind of scares that most modern horror films go for. The first and far most common kind is the jump scare. Rather … 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 February 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Woman in Black (2012) – I’m a horror geek. One of the great things about horror geekdom is that there are so many different corners of it that you can discover. Subgenres within subgenres. One of the corner of that is Brit horror (horror flicks from the U.K. for those who need self-explanatory things … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on October 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment
For seven years the Saw franchise released a movie annually around Halloween. With three Paranormal Activity films in three years, I had kind of written off the franchise as a similarly exploitative franchise. You know how they say not to judge a book by its cover (despite that being where the plot synopsis is)? Well … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Saw IV (2007) — So Saw was a good movie that seemed to come out of nowhere and Saw II was better than anyone expected a horror sequel to be. After that the series got progressively more and more idiotic (although the hilariously half-assed attempts by Saw VI at cultural relevance added a level of … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Saw VI (2009) — How does a exploitative splatter movie franchise try to stay relevant in its sixth installment? The answer is pretty funny. By taking on the important issues of the day! Seriously. The victims of the torture traps in this one include predatory lenders and a whole bunch of people who work for … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 