Posted by moviegeek916 on June 4, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The Shining (1980) – What makes a movie scary? The most horrifying thing most parents could imagine would be to lose their child, but if you have a movie about parents losing a child it would be much more likely to be categorized as a “drama.” I often refer to the documentary Jesus Camp as “the … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on July 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Batman (1989) – Well given my reviews of all the Spider-Man movies a few weeks ago it should really be no surprise that with The Dark Knight Rises being all anyone’s talking about lately that I would go back to the start of the Batman franchise. Okay, technically not all the way back to the start. … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on April 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This article was originally published on 12ftdwende.com on 30 April 2010. So a few weeks ago I mentioned that my favorite of the cinematic boogeymen is Freddy Krueger. What can I say, he got me young. From the boxes in the video store to the bits and pieces I’d catch on late night television, that … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Drag Me to Hell (2009) — Hmmm, I wonder if the two identical envelopes will get mixed up at some point… Alfred Hitchcock believed that suspense existed when the viewer knows something the characters in the movie don’t know. Now maybe that’s true (certainly worked for Hitch) but I think it becomes somewhat nullified when … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 