The 2018 and 2021 Halloween films were garbage. No burying the lede here. Halloween 2018 lacked atmosphere, dispensed with a character’s mobile in the most hackneyed and embarrassing way, threw in podcasting (because true crime is popular) and asked an audience to believe that podcasters, rather than dispassionate academics or clinicians, would be allowed toContinue reading “How to improve the Halloween franchise”
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Revisiting Hostel
In the 2000s, films like Hostel, Saw and the like represented a tonal shift to torture, an ugly, bleak era somewhat analogous to the Italian cannibal genre period, one which we occasionally visit, but seldom revisit on this site for probably obvious reasons. Tying someone to a chair or a pyre and abusing them isContinue reading “Revisiting Hostel”
Really Awful Movies 