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Scary Movie Month – Day 25 – Friday the 13th

October 25, 2011 /

I always knew that Jason wasn’t the killer in the first Friday the 13th (iTunes), but I never quite understood how he becomes the killer for the rest of the movies. I get it now. I also didn’t realize that this movie was so terrible. I mean, just awful. I get that now, too.

Honestly, the only reason to see this movie at all is because it spawned 8+ sequels/remakes. It’s worth seeing for the nostalgia, but not by much.

I can’t even say any more about this movie. If I ever watch this movie again, it’ll be simply to make fun of it.

Scary Movie Month – Day 24 – Halloween

October 24, 2011 /

The king of all slasher movies, Halloween is responsible for nearly the entirety of the genre as we know it today. While Psycho may have been the first, John Carpenter’s seminal masterpiece is responsible for taking Hitchcock’s formula and refining it to blade’s edge, creating such iconic moments as seeing through the killer’s eyes as he stalk his prey, mysterious phone calls with no one on the line, and even a lone girl trapped in a house while a relentless killer attempts to butcher her.

Carpenter managed to make a name for himself with this film, leading to a future directing a number of horror and schlock action flicks (including my personal favorite, Big Trouble in Little China [iTunes]). I’ll be revisiting his work this weekend with The Thing (iTunes), and I can’t tell you how excited I am for that. This movie is also responsible for catapulting Jamie Lee Curtis to stardom, and we can’t thank Carpenter enough for that.

Scary Movie Month – Day 12 – Psycho

October 12, 2011 /

Psycho (iTunes) is an iconic film and is my second Hitchcock film for Scary Movie Month. Psycho is often considered to be where “slasher” films began, due to a number of filming techniques and the way the plot is structured. Most slasher films, which became very popular in the late 70s and throughout the 80s, continue to use the same techniques, themes, and plot-twists while presenting the viewer with a “mystery” that the characters (and sometimes even the audience) are trying to solve.

While The Birds is a better movie, and North by Northwest is my favorite, Psycho is still a remarkable movie and any fan of cinema should check it out for the performances alone. Anthony Perkins is phenomenal as Norman Bates, and the way the plot unfolds, twists, and turns before the end makes it worth watching to everyone.

Also, if you’re just “tuning in” to Scary Movie Month, be sure to check out the calendar to see what’s coming up. Also, be sure and check out the new episode of Dead-Wait, the zombie web-series filmed and produced in Kansas City, which is available today.

Scary Movie Month – Day 8 – Scream

October 8, 2011 /

“My mom and dad are gonna be so mad at me.”

Scream was one of my first exposures to the slasher genre. My parents didn’t let us watch true scary movies growing up, so aside from a brief 30-minute experience with Halloween II (iTunes) (where Michael Myers drowns the nurse in a boiling hot tub), Scream was it. Coincidentally, it also coincides with my first non-public make-out session. Don’t tell my wife.

The best parts of this movie are all the little details they’ve added for horror movie fans: the Freddy Krueger look-a-like janitor, the oft-repeated conversations and “Rules” about scary movies, and especially the trivia game in the opening scene. I also loved the way it told you the “Rules” for surviving a scary movie and then violated every single one of them. The best thing about Scream, of course, was the way it redefined the genre, adding a sense of humor that was often missing from horror movies at the time.

Also, I didn’t have time to watch The Faculty today, so I’m gonna have to move it to another day. Maybe the same day I watch Invasion of the Body Snatchers, as it’s essentially the same movie.

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