Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
#10 in my ranking of Wes Craven's filmography. Listening to interviews with Wes Craven, he says explicitly, more than once, that he never wanted to be pigeonholed as a horror filmmaker. His primary interest was comedy, actually, and you can see him approach it here and there in his earlier years and especially in the… Continue reading Music of the Heart
#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
#4 in my ranking of Wes Craven's filmography. #1 in my ranking of the Scream franchise. I don't think I can come up with a better argument that Wes Craven should never have written his movies alone than Scream. I think he was a perfectly competent filmmaker when it comes to the visual aspects, and… Continue reading Scream
#14 in my ranking of Wes Craven's filmography. Wes Craven was no good at directing comedy, and the combination of simply capturing some of the earliest excesses of Eddie Murphy's comedic stylings along with the super-generic vampire terror end up clashing anyway in Vampire in Brooklyn to the point where even if you find the… Continue reading Vampire in Brooklyn
#5 in my ranking of Wes Craven's filmography. #2 in my ranking of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. This movie is pretty much a complete mess, and I'm into it. Wes Craven decided to come back to the franchise that really made his career for the third time (the combination of the poor reception… Continue reading Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
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