Candyman is a film that puts the “urban” into urban legend, with a suave eponymous antagonist sporting of all things, a hook for a hand laying waste to occupants of the Cabrini-Green housing project in Chicago. Horror above all else, prioritizes setting over character investment – or at least, can get away with having doneContinue reading “Candyman”
Category Archives: Horror
Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight
The “camp out in the woods” subgenre of horror is rich in content, if not in quality. For every Deliverance, The Burning, Southern Comfort, Rituals, and the compellingly underrated The Final Terror, there’s three or four dozen plus nubiles frolicking on a summer retreat flicks. At its nadir, there’s the ineptly hilarious Don’t Go inContinue reading “Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight”
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