Directed By: Leslie Goodwins
“The devil’s alive and he’s dancing with the mummy.”
Are Mummy’s scary? No. That didn’t stop Universal churning out these pictures though. This is the 4th sequel to The Mummy and the absence from the Universal box set is not really an accident.
Directed By: Steve Miner
“Oh, we’ve got a psychotic serial killer in the family who loves to butcher people on Halloween, and I just thought it in bad taste to celebrate.”
I guess we’re in an unofficial sequel run this week, which suits me fine. It was during a Netflix browse (Where usually there’s too much choice for me to make a committed decision) that I realised I’d never actually seen this sequel to the great Halloween.
Directed By: Steven Quale
“Death… doesn’t like to be cheated.”
Here’s a novel concept: A slasher movie in which we never see the killer. I don’t mean we don’t see his face, I mean we don’t see him – it – at all. Sound good? Then do I have a popular series for you!
Directed By: Scott Derrickson
“What’s an eight-letter word for “slaughterhouse”?”
I don’t know either. Sometimes you plan on watching Hellraiser II and you end up with the fifth film instead. Was it a fair trade? I don’t know, kind of.
Directed By: Robert Wise
“God! God! Whose hand was I holding?”
There’s no rhyme or reason to why I choose the movies I do. For instance, the wind was howling tonight and for some reason this came to mind. That’s about as deep as my thought process goes. I’m glad I did though since what we have here is a stone cold classic.
Directed By: Marcus Nispel
“His name was Jason. And today, is his birthday…”
So here we are, a remake that actually works? Kinda? It’s hard to say. I’ve seen the movie twice now and I certainly like it more than I don’t. Confused? Me too.
Directed By: Samuel Bayer
“Just don’t fall asleep. If you die in your dreams, you die for real.”
I got about fifteen minutes into this movie before I realised that not only had I seen it before but I’d written about it too. So that should sum up all you really need to know about it. Even if I hadn’t physically watched it, it would feel like I had since it adheres so closely to Wes Craven’s original that I’m not sure if a viewing is really needed.
Directed By: Michael A Simpson
“Ooooh, I’m a happy camper, I love the summer sun. I love the trees and forest, I’m always having fun! Ooooh, I’m a happy camper, I love the clear blue sky, and with the grace of God, I’ll camp until I die!”
On some previous iteration of this blog I talked about Sleepaway Camp and how it stands out in the pantheon of 80’s slashers for being just so weird. There’s no way a sequel could live up to that – particularly that insane ending – but here we have a movie that tries. On the one hand it’s too incompetent to really work, but that same incompetence adds up to be something sort of magical.
Directed By: Victor Halperin
“Surely you don’t think she’s alive, in the hands of natives. Oh no! Better dead than that.”
Just a year after scaring audiences at the time with his depiction of Dracula in uh…Dracula, Bela Lugosi returned with a Fu-Manchu style beard (And better english) to play the awesomely named “Murder” Legendre in White Zombie. Yes that is where messy haired rocker Rob Zombie got the name of his band from. So thanks movie.
Directed By: Wes Craven
“This is still a script, right, Wes?”
Two years before he brought us the meta Scream, Wes Craven brought us the meta New Nightmare. With the last two films I’ve looked at I’ve realised this is the third film in a row where the reach exceeds the grasp, not that this is anything new for Craven. Even his original A Nightmare on Elm Street had elements of this, though that movie is far more successful than this one is. It’s a shame too, because prior to today I’d always held this movie in high regards (Though the ending has always been terrible).
Is This Thing On? 