Although I saw this one more recently than Bloody Birthday, I remember less about this. A standard anthology with Carpenter as the “host.” Fairly bland in story and execution. A…
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I saw this at some point back in the day, but couldn’t remember anything about it. Maybe because there’s nothing memorable here. Cloying kids (that girl is straight out of…
Not sure why I didn’t love this. Decent slow burn fantasy/horror set in a gritty realism — just like Pan’s Labyrinth. Everything was right here, it just didn’t click for…
Uh-oh, the stars are a-slipping. Despite the use of the gobos and colored lighting (FINALLY!) the stories just aren’t working. The pacing is still glacier slow. I almost wouldn’t be…
This short film, directed by Sam Winemann, is well made — if kinda bland. A fairly stock, underdeveloped villain. Telegraphed ending (no suicide note, but he likes to write, so…
I don’t mind films with subtitles, but when the listing says “English,” I don’t expect over half of the film to be subtitled. That said, this wasn’t a bad film,…
So many films and TV shows have captured the ’80s so much better than this. So far, intro to the “characters” and then pretty much to the final act, which…
Ugh. At least it’s more fun than the original. It tried to infuse then-innovative dream sequences à la A Nightmare on Elm Street, but is just, well, nightmarish — and…
Kinda dropped from the last one. Ended as if this was the end of the series or at least moving on in some way.