Totally Killer suffers from the same problem most horror-comedies suffer from. It works better as a horror movie than as a comedy. That might be why when Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson were making the Scream movies, they decided to use the comedy sporadically. And you can see the difference in Scream 3 as comparedContinue reading “Slasher Horror Comedy About 1980s Is Almost ‘Totally Killer’”
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‘The Boogeyman’ Is Nothing To Be Frightened Of
The Boogeyman is hampered by two huge problems. The first is the PG-13 rating which leaves most of the movie in the dark with scenes that are poorly lit. I guess ever since the ratings board felt that Dee Wallace Stone firing a shotgun at a door in The Frighteners was too intense for aContinue reading “‘The Boogeyman’ Is Nothing To Be Frightened Of”
Who’s A Good Boy? ‘Strays’
Strays is one of those movies that could very easily be a one-joke idea that runs out of steam in its first 30 minutes. I think of movies like Sausage Party or This Is The End that thought if they kept repeating the same joke over and over the audience would still be laughing byContinue reading “Who’s A Good Boy? ‘Strays’”
‘Beerfest’ Brews A Great Comedy
With Oktoberfest happening this weekend in Tulsa, I thought I’d look at Beerfest, the 2006 comedy made by Broken Lizard. Even though the movie barely broke even at the box office and got mixed reviews, it remains one of the comedy troupe’s best movies second to their breakthrough hit Super Troopers. Two brothers of GermanContinue reading “‘Beerfest’ Brews A Great Comedy”
Outrageous Performances Breathe Life Into B-Movie ‘Graveyard Shift’
Stephen Macht is one of those character actors you’re sure you’ve seen somewhere but can’t remember. Maybe because he kinda looks like he could be Roy Scheider’s half-brother or with his facial hair, looks like Fred Ward, another character actor who never really achieve leading man status. In The Monster Squad, Macht played the JimContinue reading “Outrageous Performances Breathe Life Into B-Movie ‘Graveyard Shift’”
‘The Mill’ Takes Its Toll
The Mill could’ve worked better as an episode of Black Mirror because it falls apart during the half-way mark. Joe (Lil Rel Howery) walks up in an open-air prison unsure of how he got there. He’s dressed in a suit and tells anyone who will listen he works for the Mallard Corporation. In the centerContinue reading “‘The Mill’ Takes Its Toll”
‘The Blackening’ Lacks Many Laughs Nor Is It Really Scary
Back in the 1980s or 1990s following the popularity of Richard Pryror and Eddie Murphy making jokes about white people with safety from hate groups, many other black comics began to draw comparisons between how black people and white people do things. But by the early 1990s with the emergence of Def Comedy Jam, itContinue reading “‘The Blackening’ Lacks Many Laughs Nor Is It Really Scary”
How ‘The Color Of Money’ And ‘Collateral’ Are In The Same Universe
With the recent passing of Piper Laurie and the upcoming release of the long-awaited and critically acclaimed Killers of the Flower Moon, I’d thought I’d look back at The Color of Money released on this day. Martin Scorsese directed this movie back in the mid-1980s when he was going through a down period. As IContinue reading “How ‘The Color Of Money’ And ‘Collateral’ Are In The Same Universe”
‘The Haunted Mansion’ Is Much Ado About Nothing
For the third time in 20 years, Disney has made an adaptation of their Haunted Mansion ride. And while the Eddie Murphy-starring 2003 version wasn’t great, it had some great amusing scenes for aN early 2000s family movie. The Muppet version was just terrible. The latest version is a two-hour spectacular with an impressive castContinue reading “‘The Haunted Mansion’ Is Much Ado About Nothing”
How Piper Laurie Gave Horror Movies One Of Its Greatest Villains
By the time, Piper Laurie accepted the role of Margaret White in Brian DePalma’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie, she hadn’t appeared in a movie for almost 15 years since her Oscar-nominated performance in The Hustler. She had been doing TV work up until the mid-1960s before she took time off for about a decade.Continue reading “How Piper Laurie Gave Horror Movies One Of Its Greatest Villains”
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