Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
If I had been a contemporary of Fritz Lang in his early career, this is about the point that I’d begin writing him off. There was some entertainment in the first of the Spiders episodes, but the only real positive attribute of the next two films was the production design. Here, in The Wandering Shadow,… Continue reading The Wandering Shadow
#15 in my ranking of Wes Craven's filmography. #4 in my ranking of the Scream franchise. For all the façade of being rule and genre breaking forays into the slasher flick space, the Scream movies sure do stick to a formula pretty closely. They mess with details here and there from movie to movie, but… Continue reading Scream 4
#17 in my ranking of Wes Craven's filmography. #5 in my ranking of the Scream franchise. This is emblematic of why I don't really like what the whole "guess who's the killer" genre has become. It's become purely about misleading the audience and making them unable to see what's coming. That's a plus for many… Continue reading Scream 2
#16 in my ranking of Wes Craven's filmography. Looking at the IMDb rating of The People Under the Stairs, it seems like this is close to a fan favorite. It's one of his highest rated films (only at a 6.4, mind you), but I was simply bored silly by this attempt at the variation of… Continue reading The People Under the Stairs
#8 in my ranking of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Finally, one Nightmare on Elm Street film decides to dig even a little bit into Freddy Krueger into a character. However, they made the mistake of being obsessed with his past rather than his present or future. Long-term producer of the franchise and new… Continue reading Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare
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