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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 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 October 31, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Child’s Play (1988) – Let’s just start with the one reason this movie couldn’t NOT be scary: dolls are just fucking creepy, man. Child’s Play is a movie with some dark humor, but unlike some of the sequels that followed it is not a comedy. Reliably creepy character actor Brad Dourif plays serial killer Charles … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on October 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment
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 →
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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 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
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 →
Posted by moviegeek916 on September 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
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 →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 19, 2011 · 1 Comment
The Prowler (1981) — So this is one of those 80s slasher flicks that I tend to enjoy. This one had a particularly high reputation so i figured I’d check it out. The reputation is entirely due to the high-quality gore work does by master of blood and guts Tom Savini. Everything else about the … Continue reading →
Posted by moviegeek916 on September 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) — So Jason doesn’t actually “take” Manhattan until just over an hour into the movie. Once there does he wreaks havoc on terrified New Yorkers? For the most part, no. Instead of his usual “kill anyone, kill everyone” philosophy he ignores the hundreds of New Yorkers … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (1986) — At what point does a series descend into self-parody? It’s not as if the Friday the 13th films ever held to a very standard of excellence but they are what they are and what they are is fucking fun. From the very moment Jason does a … Continue reading →
Persistence of Vision 