Top 10 Horror Villains: # 1 : Michael Myers

This probably isn't a surprise to any of you blog fans, but # 1 on the list of the top 10 horror villains of all time is the one & only MICHAEL MYERS.

 

Obvi the Halloween movies are the best of all the horror genre movies & you better beleive there's a reason for that. The original Halloween is OTC & almost all of the rest of them are top notch too.

 

Michael Myers is the perfect embodiment of everything tight about horror movies (and Halloween). He's got that scary stare going on, he's always stuck to what he does best when he TKO's people, he's on #teamswoll, and he only comes out to party on the greatest night of the year.

 

Everyone else pales in comparison. Wheels up to you MM \o/

Top 10 Horror Villains: #2: Jason Voorhees

WGBW, #2 on the countdown is the man from Camp Crystal Lake and lead star of the hit Friday the 13th series himself, Jason Voorhees.

Jason is pretty much all around really tight. The Hockey Mask is a tight piece of his ensemble that about anyone would recognize. He never talks and he usually walks at this slow but kind of brisk pace that makes you scared as hell because he never feels in a hurry to get to you. Another bonus is that no one ever really went to town on the whole FRIDAY THE 13TH horror movie before this, so props to them.

While some of his sequels are above par, he generally makes it rain in almost all of them.

Some trivia for some of the fans out there who may not know, Jason isn't actually the killer in the first one (his mom is), or either the 5th or the 6th one (some kid just imagines him), and he actually never puts on the hockey mask until the 3rd one.

I also have a personal connection (albeit a small one lol) in that I can't swim and generally hate going in the water.

Almost to #1! 

Happy Halloween!

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Everyone stay tuned throughout the day, got a bunch of good stuff coming for you all!

-buff

Paranormal Activity 4

1) Same old movie as the rest of them. I heard all of the reviews said that it was just the same old thing but I don't really know what people are looking for in these movies. I mean, it's obvi just gonna be a bunch of quiet moments with something crazy jumping out and scaring the hell out of everyone (myself included). You get what you pay for.

2) On that note it made me jump about every 2 minutes. I preemptively knew this and tried to preoccupy myself, but things like shadows, creepy little kids, and that weird contingent of chicks spook the hell out of me. 

3) That being said the movie didn't really wrap up any odd ends. So that Katie girl who's been in every movie is still around TKOing people, but it seems hard to figure out what they'll do with the plot now. And what was up with her letting the boyfriend hook up all the cameras in her house? He's like 'yeah let me put up a bunch in your bedroom and stuff' SMH.

It also kind of begs the question how all of these incidents get videotaped each and every time. They're kind of tossing the 'found footage' theory out the door with this one.

4) The one thing I do enjoy about watching these is trying to catch horror connections to other movies that I think always get hidden in there. The little kid riding that bike around was def from The Shining, the girl levitating from the bed was straight up the Exorcist, and the kid getting pulled into the tub was a shout-out to Nightmare on Elm Street. The last one I caught was when the kid is up goofing around with the spirit by the TV was probably a homage to Poltergeist. For all my idiotic writing, I do think I know some stuff about horror movies \o/

B

Top 10 Horror Villains #3: Freddy Krueger

WGBW #3 is Freddy Krueger from the hit Nightmare on Elm Street series.

I struggled with the top 3 quite a bit to be honest with you BW. What set Freddy apart from the top 2 is his indulgence in TKOing people in such goofy ways. The girl with the heroin scars getting stabbed with Freddy's fingers? The person getting sucked to death? They just got more ridiculous with time lol.

And (call me a n00b) but I didn't realize that he has that daughter running around that he's still sort of hanging out with? Disturbing on too many levels.  I saw that the day after Mardi Gras this year and had to hang my head all day that I had never realized that.

Anywho, this has been focused on the drawbacks of Freddy, but he's obvi a good horror villain. I mean the guys pops up in your dreams; he's one of the only horror villains who  can pull off being sort of funny while still being scary; and that theme song of his is OTC.

Good work

Pet Sematary 2

1) Actually a really solid sequel. I obvi had much love for the original which was in and of itself pretty remarkable given that a lot of Stephen King's novels don't always transition to movies well. It's even harder for me to believe a fake sequel to it is solid.

2) It was a fairly predictable storyline once it started going but it was good. It veered away from the original enough to not be boring but still managed to stay kinda true.

3) I am confused how anyone ever dies after being bitten by the animals in the cemetery.  Like that one guy just pops back to life after getting bit. It seems like they might be more like vampires in that after you get bit you just get to hang around for eternity being vampires. I mean, the only way to defeat this guy was to explode him with an electric cord? We saw how well that worked in Child's Play 2 lol.

4) Anyone catch that sick poster of Friday the 13th Part 8 up in his room? It's actually substantially better than my original review of it would have you believe. Props to the kid in the movie for recognizing this.

B

Top 10 Horror Villains: #4: Jigsaw

#4 on the list is that creepy Jigsaw guy from all the Saw movies.

I'm not gonna lie, a big part of the reason he makes it so high up on the list is that he has some of the tightest catchphrases of all time. The "I want to play a game" and "All your life" are all real tight. It's why when Ronnie and I talk in that voice it never gets old lol.

The other part that makes Jigsaw fit the mold of a horror villain is that he just keeps popping back up. Even after he dies he leaves all those messages from beyond the grave, and they just keep having flashbacks to when he was around in the older movies. 

It's also really tight when he makes his appearances through that creepy puppet thing that rides around on a bike. Now that's some spooky stuff.

Top notch scary stuff \o/

Top 10 Horror Villains: #5: Chucky

#5 is Chucky from the hit Child's Play movies.

I'm not overtly wild about any of the movies, but Chucky's place on this list is based almost solely on my fear of him that plagued me for the better part of a decade.

For those of you who don't know the backstory, I first saw Child's Play 2 when I was in 6th grade. I literally couldn't sleep for weeks. I accidentally saw a Chucky doll in the mall a few months later and had to take off running out of the store it was so creepy.

This followed me from my adolescence into my first few years of college where everyone thought it was so funny to buy Chucky dolls off of ebay and put them in my bed. Stuff still isn't funny lol.

Chuckys one scary dude.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1) A lot of hoopla before the plot actually develops. It seems like they spend the first 30 minutes of the movie just driving around in a car or in a hospital. Kind of boring lol.

2) It was kinda tight though. I'm not wild about alien-esque horror movies but this one was good. It's kind of the weird part about my movie taste is that I really like all the old Unsolved Mysteries that involve UFO sightings and stuff. I even used to have a book about them but for some reason I'm not overtly wild about horror movies with Aliens. 

3) I know I've mentioned this before, but boy howdy did they smoke ciggies back in the day.  The surgeon general definitely didn't issue a warning before most of these movies.

4) How tight was it when that kid just ran away when he didn't want to go to school? School sucks. That kid rules. Also the line "maybe we should have a drink." #tellmeaboutitlol.

Pretty solid for an old movie,

B

Audition

1) I had no idea what I was in for. @warnerben recommended that I review this last year and I was aware that it was a torture movie but holy god was this OTC. The crazy part is that it doesn't go OTC till the last part of it. Had a really good detailed setup lol.

2) That vomit scene literally almost made me vomit. IMDB says she insisted that she actually vomit so it could be real. If that's true then this movie is cray.

3) Kind of a goofy plot. I mean, I understand that people have a hard time finding the right one to settle down with. But I dunno if having an audition for a girl is really all that appropriate. 

4) The tightest part about this movie was that I made it through it. If you ever watched a movie with me you'd know that me sitting through a 2 hour long foreign movie with subtitles is a herculean task. Well done buff.

My only beef is that these over the top torture/gross movies are hard to fall in love with,

C+

Top 10 Horror Villains: #6: The Devil

#6 on our countdown is THE DEVIL.

He's featured on such scary classics as Rosemary's Baby, the Exorcist, the Omen, as well as a litany of other movies. It's hard to leave him off when he's been featured in dozens of good movies over the last 50 years.

The other thing that boosts him on the countdown is how much he generally scares the hell out of me. I date this back to grade school when I used to be real into the Days of Our Lives (I know lol). There's a few episodes where Marlena gets possessed by the devil and during the part where he shows himself on tv my VHS tape that recorded it cut out. I mean, how scary is that for an 8 year old?

And although he's 'fictional' in these movies, the whole devil being real in real life gives me the willies too.

Scary stuff!

Top 10 Horror Villains: #7: Frankenstein

#7 on tha countdown is Frankenstein.

Now I know some of the fans will be let down that such a classic monster icon is pretty low on the charts. As many of you know, my movie taste isn't very good so you can't always get your hopes up too high lol.

Part of the reason he's not super high up on the list is that he's just not always super talented as a horror villain.

*Random aside, how many posts were all the fans gonna let go by before alerting me to the fact that I have been spelling the word VILLAIN wrong for the last 4 days? I should've been an English major lol*

Anywho, as I was saying, he just doesn't seem coordinated enough to be too scary. As I've ranted about before, his inability to open doors and screams that sound like a small child have put a cap on how high he can go.

Nevertheless, everyone recognizes Frankenstein, and he did spawn a litany of sequels that were wildly popular back in the day (and even today) so I have to give him countdown credit.

All Too Well- Taylor Swift

Wgbw, I know I promised no more non-Halloween reviews but I couldn't let such a moment in history pass me by.

1) I'm not giving a spoiler alert about song of the year (obvi), but I wanted to update one of the previous posts here about song of the year.

2) Maybe it's my ADD but this song is by far and away a front runner now. It's hard for me to get too tuned into the songs that I was gii on in February but I still think this one is running away with it.

3) I haven't been this gitty about lyrics in a while but I even got Bricker excited about dis (maybe not lol):

"Maybe we got lost in translation, maybe I'd asked for too much, but maybe this thing was a masterpiece till you tore it all up. Running scared i was there, i remember it all toooo wellll. you call me up again just to break me like a promise, so casually cruel, in the name of being of honest"

If those weren't some of the best TSwift lyrics of all time I don't know what were. 

If I could give a better grade I would,

A++

Top 10 Horror Villians: #8: Ghostface

#8 on the countdown is the Ghostface killer from the hit movie/s Scream.

Now I know that s/he isn't technically one killer since s/he audibles from movie to movie, but the mask is pretty iconic. But the fact that s/he's not a stable character probably limits her/his potential by quite a bit. (A lot of gender neutral stuff in that paragraph).

Random aside, one time on Halloween someone was wearing this mask and just staring at people on the side of the road. That shit spooks the hell out of me when people have masks on and just don't say stuff when you talk to them. You never know who could be behind the mask lol.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

1) Not really much of a horror movie. I mean, I get that there are vampires in it and all, but it's not really spooky, especially since it's supposed to be historical (well in a fictional sense). Most of the movies are just these action shots that are overshot in slow motion. If there wasn't so much slow motion the movie would probably get over faster lol.

2) I'd go on a rant about watching these 3D movies without the 3D effect but I've barked up that tree too many times before.

3) How tight was it when Papa Doc from the hit motion picture 8 Mile popped up in it. He automatically bumps up every movie rating he's in, he's just so tight (see What's Your Number for more evidence of this).  Come to think of it, he probably just should've challenged the vampires to rap battles. I mean, it's kind of like an old school duel, but still gives an appropriate shout out to his role in 8 mile.

4) Although this movie wasn't generally reviewed well by the critics, I do fear that it could spark a wreck of spinoffs that could be horrible. Imagine 'William Taft: Bathtub Layer'. The possibilities to Linc (link get it?) presidents to horror icons makes me nervous about the future of these movies.

C-

Top 10 Horror Villians: #9: Leatherface

WGBW, number 9 is Leatherface from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

Although I never thought this movie was super good, he makes the countdown for historical reasons. Obvi most everyone knows about this movie, and the chainsaw killer spawned a litany of knockoff movies and scenes that were probably drawn from the movie.

Although I kind of highlighted his limitations in my earlier review, he's still pretty scary with that chainsaw. I know a bunch of haunted houses have crazy looking people run around with chainsaws to scare all the people waiting to get in. That sure would work on me /o\

Top 10 Horror Villians: #10: Pennywise

#10 of the countdown is that scary ass clown from the movie IT.

I've actually never reviewed this movie because it's been like a decade since I've seen it (I used to own it on VHS lol) and I'm literally afraid of watching it again. I mean, the clown goes after a bunch of little kids at the beginning of the movie.

I know a lot of people that have a fear of clowns and if you're one of those people never go see this movie.  Even the photo of him is scary.

And what's up with the name Pennywise? That's some creepy stuff too.

Top 10 Horror Villains

Wgbw, I've decided the countdown for this year will be the top 10 horror villains of all time.

I can't provide any objective way that I'm really going to rank them but I should provide a few disclaimers:

1) They probably won't be ranked solely based on cultural impact. Obvi that will determine their ranking but the countdown won't focus on it entirely.

2) As a follow up to that, you can imagine that the characters won't be ranked based on how good they were on rotten tomatoes so don't get your hopes up Jon. 

3) How scary they were to little (or older) Buffalo will probably be a pretty big factor. Some of these characters have scared me for the better part of my youth so you can count on them making the countdown.

Anywho, I'll start off with #10 later tonight, I love you all

-buff

Sleepaway Camp 2

1) It was actually light years ahead of the original Sleepaway Camp. This one took the same path as the old one where they just try and focus on how crazy all the deaths could be. Only this time she didn't manage to TKO people in as many goofy ways. Obvi the toilet bowl kill was goofy and so was the guitar string but at least it's an improvement from that awful first one. 

2) The horror movies with the comedic side to them are always hit or miss. This one was okay even though this is obvi not intended to be scary. I think it's just trying to shock everyone with how crazy the kills are.

3) There was some tight connections to other horror movies going on. Obvi the references to the Friday the 13th and the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. There's also a guy named JUDD in it which is tight.

4) Overall the whole lack of getting spooked still puts a ceiling on dis one. It's just hard to imagine some 100 pound 18 year old being able to just wreck havoc on an entire camp. Who knows though.

C-

Taylor Swift- Red Review

First as random aside- was I the only one to get this early? I preordered it off Amazon and it got here 2 days early. I feel bad for all of those teenagers that have to wait till Monday lol. Anywho, here are my initial thoughts after tuning into this for 24 hours (this will be the only detour from horror movies the rest of October too lol).

1) Overall super solid. It's hard to say where it ranks amongst her previous 3 albums but it's obvi top notch.

2) It has a pretty solid mix of super pop songs with her usual sad, slow breakup songs. I'm not crazy about her 2 duets that are on the album but I get that she might like Snow Patrol in real life.

3) Omitting the previously released singles she had off of the album, it's pretty obvi that she'll release '22', Starlight, and Stay Stay Stay. 22 is pretty catchy, but I'm not too wild about the other 2.

4) It's kind of an odd thing about my music taste (well besides that it's usually not very good lol), but I really dig sad slow breakup songs when I'm not going through some breakup. I dunno why I dig them when I'm in a good place in my life but I do. This has probably been one of the tightest months of my life, so I'm really tuning into 'All Too Well' and 'I Almost Do'. The lyrics on them are really good and they're obvi super slow and sad LOL.

Obvi you know this would get a good grade,

A

Near Dark

1) Really kind of an odd vampire movie. I'm not sure they ever mention the word vampires and except for the sun, they don't really show any anti-vampire techniques being rampantly used.

2) Vampire movies always give me the willies. I have a thing about the back of my ankles, my wrists, and my neck that freak me out when people touch me there. When she just bites him at the beginning of the movie I almost jumped out of my bed lol. And then the rest of the movie he just sucks on her wrist. Super creepy.

3) It's really tight when that driver goes missing. The guy is confused why the driver went to Kansas while he shoulda been in Waco, Texas. For anyone that's ever been to Waco, there's no mystery why you'd rather be in Kansas. I guess if you wanna get shit on by birds and cage an animal on your campus I understand. Kind of tight that the final showdown takes place in Kansas too.

4) Maybe it's just the Oklahoma/Texas crowd, but why on earth don't more people just GTFO when they see the vampires? It's like they're chilling at a bar and then vampires start biting people and everyone just stays chilling. I've only been at tha bar a few times when a fight broke out and generally it scared the hell out of me. I dunno why they're sticking around for the whole thing.

5) Pretty tight there's a little RomCom to it too with that dude and chick.

Good stuff,

A-

Top 10 Countdown 2012

WGBW, still have a movie review coming for later tonight. But just thought I'd let you all know that I've narrowed down the top 10 countdown lists this year to two choices.

Either

1) The top 10 decades of scary movies (care of @buns0n).

or

2) Buff's top 10 best Halloweens (care of @thewholemilk).

Both of these are solid choices and I'm down for either. The countdown has to start the 22nd, and I'll have to put in some thought on either of the lists. I know some of the jitsu fans who don't know me personally will probably get confused by the second countdown, but I also know those of you who tune in on the reg are already probably bored of my scary movie reviews.

Anywho, let me know \o/

-buff

Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives

WGBW, got a special post for you tonight. I'm re-reviewing the movie that was the blog's first ever post: Friday the 13th Part 6. Obvi my blogging skills are light years ahead of where they were then (lol) but for how good this movie is I never truly gave it the credit it deserved.

1) The biggest historical role for this movie was that it saved the Friday the 13th franchise from that really mediocre Friday the 13th Part 5 movie. Not that I was tuning into these movies at the time, but if I was I would've been so reluctant to go see this in the theaters after the part 5 movie. This movie is just literally running laps around the previous one.

2) I'd echo all of my sentiment from my post from 2 years ago. They rep that it's on Friday the 13th, Jason does do a pretty consistent job of going to town, and I still have a crush on the girl in this movie. I probably didn't rep that last point enough during my first review: it's really tight that this movie has a somewhat romcom flavor to it. How tight it must be for that Tommy guy. I mean, you get terrorized by Jason, locked up for the latter part of a decade, and then get thrown into jail only to be saved by the really good looking daughter of the sheriff. I know I think my life is tuning up but Tommy is probably one upping me.

3) This is the only Friday the 13th movie with no nudity, so if you're looking for some (sort of) clean family fun here it is.

4) Even the ending is tight. Given that it's the 6th movie of the series it's not ground breaking that there will be another sequel but I'm glad they didn't pretend to finish him off for good.

A

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

1) I'm kinda confused how they are not totally sure of who wrecked all the havoc in the first place. I mean, didn't people see this gigantic monster running around this huge city? I get they couldn't tweet what was going on at the time to alert the others, but really this doesn't seem to be that hard to figure out. He's not bigfoot.

2) I dunno what's going on with these older classic movies. But it seems like no monster/villain ever just pops out of nowhere. In The Mummy, The Invisible Man, and Frankenstein all involve these scientists that are just curiously creating these supermonsters to wreck havoc on the world. At least in this one the guy has made an oxygen destroyer instead of just creating the monster himself.

3) And what a crazy thing to just start investigating in. I mean, who sits around and just decides to develop some formula that sucks the oxygen up out of you? Did he get a license from the government for this? Seems like some risky experimenting.

4) It's hard to be too scared of this at the end of the day. Living in Kansas kind of insulates me from having to fear oceanesque creatures that could make it rain on small town KS. Then again, I did get nervous that the guy jumping out of space the other day might just land through the Cone. Never say never.

C-

The Butterfly Effect

WGBW, sorry for the delays. I promise no more days off on the blog. I know October's half way over and I promise not to disappoint anymore ;)

1) I should cover some jurisdictional issues up front. I know this isn't a horror movie per se, but it spooked me out quite a bit so I think it's worthy of inclusion here.

2) It's a really solid movie. Maybe it personally resonates with me or something, but it's always crazy to me how the butterfly effect operates in the real world. It's like, what if I never saw the original Halloween and never got a thing for horror movies? What if I trusted my instincts and never let the long-haired Bricker first hang out with me? What if I stayed in and never met that one* girl at the bar?  It's really wild stuff when you step back and think about how some chance encounter can affect your life lol.

3) Besides that this movie mixes the right bit of creepiness with optimism. I mean, the whole creepy dad/ Amy Smart falling off the cliff / kids leg getting blown off stuff is all pretty intense. But AK always gives you some hope that he could just go back and fix things.

4) I guess the movie ending is kind of bad. It reminded me of The Breakup when they just pass each other in the street and never know what could've been. Bunz always said no regrets, so it's hard for me to get on board with this idea that people should travel back in time to avoid making mistakes that they could fix in hindsight. Just gives you some deep stuff to think about.

B+

The Invisible Man (1933)

1) Obvi reminds me of the underrated movie Hollow Man. Only this ones some 60 years earlier lol.

2) If this really happened it would obviously be one of the scariest things that has ever happened. Where would you hide from this guy? My first thought was just to go hang out in your car and feel around until you made sure it was clear and then get the hell out of town. But what if he's just hanging on to the top of your car or something? Really no where to run. 

3) For all the perks of being invisible, the guy does have some good talking points about the drawbacks of it. Walking down the stairs would  be hard as hell since you can't look at your feet. I'm sure kickboxing, dancing, and a variety of other habits would have to go out the door as well.


4) The ending was a little ho-hum. I'm always for the horror movies that leave at least a little bit of a cliff hanger. It's too bad that they just showed him ultimately getting TKO'd and returning to normal. Doesn't really leave much room for a sequel.

B-

Creature from the Black Lagoon

1) This would give me the willies even if there wasn't a giant creature that was hanging out in the Amazon. When I was in Vegas, Leslie dragged me to this aqarium thing where all the sharks and stuff were swimming around in the walls and stuff. Scared the hell out of me. This whole movie is them just hanging out around all these creepy fishes and what not. Scary enough for me.

2) That being said, there's a pretty simple solution to this whole mess. If you quit dicking around by the water you really wouldn't have a problem with this thing. When he's on land he moves at less than a mile an hour and sticks out his gigantic claws so you could see him coming from a mile away. Why they keep investigating while everyone keeps getting TKO'd kind of befuddles me.

3) I mean these people keep dying and they hypothesize that the Creature might just be a 'mosquito that they can shoe away'? HELLO MCFLY.

4) For you Dawson's Creek fans out there, you'll remember that this movie got repped a lot in the Pilot episode lol.

Meh,

D+

Damien: Omen 2

1) Actually a pretty solid movie in the context of sequels. To be fair most of the initial sequels to the biggest horror movies have been good (see Halloween 2, Friday the 13th Part 2, and Nightmare on Elm Street 2), but this one was good too.

2)  I should preface that by saying that I've never seen any other sequel to the original Omen, so it's totally possible that all of the other ones rule too but I'm pessimistic.

3) It gets pretty redundant when all of the people keep dying the same way.  It makes sense that Damien can just make them die off. But how does he have this crow with superpowers that follows him around and TKO's anyone who's suspicious of him? Seems like it's kind of cheating.

4) And how doesn't he notice the giant 666 on the top of his head? I mean, the kids 13 and has probably gotten at least 100 haircuts. Wouldn't the school nurse have checked it for lice at some point and been like: "Holy God, he has the sign of the antichrist engraved on his head, I should think about alerting the local priest."

Nothing compared to the original but still pretty good,

B

The Mummy (1932)

1) Trying to gii with some of the classic movies that I've never seen before. Most of these aren't too bad because even though they're in black and white and what not, they are only like an hour long which is right up my alley.

2) It's kinda wild that the mummy guy doesn't even look like a mummy for a wreck of the movie. I dressed up like a mummy a few years ago (which was dumb- toilet paper doesn't stay wrapped around you for very long lol) but I never actually knew how little time that guy actually rocked the outfit in the movie.

3) Seems like I've been watching a bunch of movies lately that involve someone reading some scroll or poem that just ends up wrecking havoc on everyone. It's always one of those situations where everyone wants to read it because they don't think anything could go wrong but then it does. Reason 3234378 not to read any ancient history books in some other language.

4) It was really tight when they first woke the mummy up. That one guy goes crazy and then just laughs about how the mummy is going on a walk. It's pretty tight the Mummy is on #teamwalk.

C+

Halloween Night

1) Alright blog world, this is hopefully the last really mediocre movie I review this month. I know I have a checkered past but I'm really trying to get better after this lol.

2) I thought this would be okay because it seemed to kind of parallel the original Halloween movie: the guy gets out of an asylum and comes and wrecks havoc on Halloween night. Sounds good but this one went straight to DVD for a reason.

3) Almost every death in the movie happened the exact same way. This guy pops up at the party and everybody thinks he's just horsing around since he's wearing a mask so they just joke with him until he KO's them. I mean, using that once or twice was okay but it was almost the entire movie.

4) And how ridiculous was the end? A guy who looks like bigfoot is walking down an empty interstate wearing only a priest-robe with a paper plate tied onto his head with an upside down smiley face on it and this guy just decides to give him a ride?

Go back and re-read that last sentence. It was as ridiculous to type as the ending of the movie was lol.

D

Evil Dead 2

1) So this has a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes and I've seen it 3 times and just still can't really tune in. The first Evil Dead was also just making it rain on RT but I must be out to lunch or something.

2) I think part of my beef with it is that I'm not too gung-ho about comedic horror movies. And I'm not in love with super super gory movies. I get that in 1987 this was pretty wild but now I'm not really tuning in.

3) I know I'm not a history major either. But why on Earth did he get sucked back to never-ever land at the end of the movie? I mean, I guess the whole point of the movie is to be comedic and what not but why pick such a ridiculous ending? If someone asked me to explain the resolution of this movie I'd be at a loss for words.

4) I think I'm also griping because I obvi enjoy short horror movies that take just a min to get to the plot before quickly getting to the point. This movie jumped into the deep end right off the bat and then just stayed there doggy-paddling around for over an hour. Then the ending just literally sucked the guy up into a drain or something.

Befuddled,

D+

The Eye (2008)

1) Not a great way to start off October lol. I know this is a remake of the Japanese movie, but I guess I thought it'd be a good idea because I can't remember of another horror movie with an eye transfer involved lol.

2) Really not much to say about it. The whole movie isn't really scary at all. It kind of reminded me of The Ward. That girl just sees a bunch of shenanigans that may or may not be real. Only this time the whole point of her getting her eye sight back was to warn of that impending explosion or something. To be honest  EYE don't really know, I didn't keep my EYE on the screen too much after about an hour in (lol).

3) I heard Jessica Alba won a Razzie for this. I'm not really a good judge of what is or isn't good acting (obvi). But all the parts where she was 'playing' the violin it wasn't matching up at all with sound.

4) It's kinda hard to get too excited about this too because I'm unclear if it's actually a horror movie. To me a horror movie kind of has to scare you after you quit watching. Like Chucky is even scary because he could come after you. But here, I'm unsure what was supposed to spook you and how it's even scary given the ending.

5) At least it had a reference to Nightmare on Elm Street when she wakes up and her arm is all messed up. Otherwise maybe don't tune.

D+

Happy October!

Wgbw, happy October. Today is the second greatest day of the year and I'm excited \o/

I've got a movie post for later tonight (obvi it's October) but wanted to let all the fans know what direction I'll be moving in this year.

There's a bunch of classic horror movies that I'm gonna get on here, as well as a bunch of the horror cult classics (that I never seem to enjoy lol) along with some sequels that I've been neglecting.

@warnerben had the tight idea of tuning back into some sort of countdown. Those always go over well but I need to brainstorm for an idea of what to countdown. I thought about doing my top 10 favorite horror movies but I'm afraid the blog may have already given that away.

The one change I think I'll be making from years past is that I'm going to re-review some of the more solid Halloween movies that I tune into year round. Not that I didn't review them great the first time around, but looking back on the early days of the blog I'm sure I can make these posts a lot better. This will happen towards the latter part of October.

As always, if the fans have any suggestions for something for me to review (outside of reviewing the Dirty Projectors concert lol) I'm all on board.

Stay tuned!