When it comes to an author despising a screen adaptation of their work, Stephen King’s remarks about The Shining being “a maddening, perverse, and disappointing film,” are almost complimentary, at least if you compare them to Sol Yurick’s take on The Warriors. The novelist never came to terms with the film’s status as a cult classic. AndContinue reading “Revisiting The Warriors”
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The Last House on the Left
With no apologies to fans of Scream, The Last House on the Left is Wes Craven’s second best, a masterpiece that’s a cut below the all-time great A Nightmare on Elm Street because of the latter’s sublime creativity. This one’s a gut-punch, as unrelenting and uncompromising as they come. And one of the more harrowingContinue reading “The Last House on the Left”
Really Awful Movies 