November 2009
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Prom Night -- It's Not Very Good, But...
You know, just because it’s old doesn’t mean it’s good. Prom Night’s a good example of that. All the ingredients for a classic horror flick are here: genre staple Jaime Lee Curtis, a group of teenagers ready and willing to have promiscuous sex, smoke weed and die and the tragic death of a child, the truth of her demise buried — or so it seems!!! — by a bunch...
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Drag Me To Hell -- Drag Me To Awesome
Sam Raimi, I’ve missed you. Seeing him guide the Spider-Man series to great heights was success deserving for a man of Raimi’s talents, but Peter Parker robbed the world of a master horror director. Who knows what Raimi would have brought us if Spider-Man hadn’t dropped in his lap? If it would have been a few more movies like Drag Me To Hell, I anxiously await the time travel...
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Alice, Sweet Alice -- Aka Brooke Shields Dies
It’s not snobbery to proclaim the best horror was produced before my time, but that’s actually not a big deal, it just means I have piles and piles of gold to discover from the gold mines of the 70’s and 80’s. Alice, Sweet Alice, a story about an evil child around the time stories about evil children were becoming passe, has one thing it can hold high above its...
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The Best Halloween Movie You Haven't Seen
It’s not often a Halloween movie makes a lasting impression. True, I can find something to appreciate in just about anything horror, having watched more than enough to appreciate the work involved, even if a final product doesn’t actually click. Trick ‘r Treat, though, is a film worthy of applause, deserving to join the ranks of The Nightmare Before Christmas, A Nightmare On...
