Really Awful Movies

Halloween

For all its frightening moments, Halloween actually features one of the great speeches in the pantheon of horror, Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence) musing about his encounter with a young Michael Myers: “I met this six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes… the devil’s eyes…” It’s a wholesale rejection of social constructivism,Continue reading “Halloween”

Assassination Games

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. Assassination Games begins with a quote from everyone’s favorite cranky syphilitic German, Friedrich Nietzsche — a line which sounds like it’d work well, badly dubbed in a Hong Kong kung fu caper. But this film is a gangster flick starring Ubermensch Jean Claude Van Damme as VincentContinue reading “Assassination Games”