Call it Pascal’s wager. Would the goodwill French director Pascal Laugie built up with his stupendous achievement Martyrs propel the follow up, The Tall Man? It’s nearly impossible not to think about Martyrs while watching this one, nearly as much as it is to banish thoughts of the first two Godfathers in the endurance test that isContinue reading “The Tall Man”
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The Evil Dead
You can’t underestimate the influence of The Evil Dead, even if it hasn’t aged quite as well as some other films (and that’s through no fault of its own — it was quite simply so influential, and so widely imitated, it now looks dated). The answer’s simple: it diverged wildly from its early 80s brethren, despite the sameContinue reading “The Evil Dead”
Really Awful Movies 