Posts Tagged ‘Halloween’

The Strangers Left Me Wanting For A Refund

by Furious
May 11th, 2009

There’s somethin’ wrong with the world today
I don’t know what it is
Something’s wrong with our eyes

-Aerosmith, Livin’ on the Edge

The are few things that have gotten as tedious for me as watching horror movies. It seems all modern horror movies fit the same mold. There’s an interesting idea. A half-assed attempt to make us care about the victims (there aren’t really protagonists in horror movies any more, just victims and iconic psychopaths). There are a few atmospheric scares. Then the filmmakers run out of ideas and begin painting with bazookas, becoming more blunt and violent until the movie ends. There’s no actual ending, the movie just ends as the centimeter deep well of ideas is long past empty.

The Strangers was no different.

The interesting idea is what got you in the theater: a couple of people stuck in a house being assailed by masked assailants. That’s the …

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Assessing The Weekend: High School Musical Still Rules

by Furious
November 5th, 2008

Once again, High School Musical 3 was tops at the box office. But it was a down weekend overall, actually the smallest weekend of the year.

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This Date In Movie History: November 2nd

by Furious
November 2nd, 2008

November 2nd has been an interesting day in movie history.

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Weekend Predictions: 10-31-08

by Furious
October 31st, 2008

For Halloween you can choose between a watered-down horror movie or a romantic comedy in disguise- The Haunting of Molly Hartley or Zack and Miri Make a Porno.

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Public Domain Movie Of The Week Double Feature

by Furious
October 28th, 2008

To get warmed up for Halloween, I present two of the most frightening horror movies you could ever want to see, Freaks and Nosferatu.

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Weekend Predictions: 10-24-08

by Furious
October 25th, 2008

This weekend looks to be a two horse race to the bank between High School Musical 3: Senior Year and Saw V.

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Stop This Crazy World, I Want To Get Off

by Furious
August 26th, 2008

So, here we are, in the golden age of remakes, and things just keep getting more obfuscated. First we had remakes. If you want to see The Fog, you have to figure out whether you want the original 1980 version or the 2005 remake. That’s bad enough, but now we’ve got the insanity of remakes of sequels and sequels to remakes.

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