By 1989, the golden age of slashers had been exsanguinated. If you consider Mario Bava’s A Bay of Blood the genre prototype, and the blueprint for this kind of film, Psycho Cop represents a coda of sorts. Hell, they both contain the meat cleaver between the eyes kill, which by this point had become soContinue reading “Psycho Cop”
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How to improve the Halloween franchise
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”
Really Awful Movies 