Better Ways To Spend Two Hours Than ‘Friday Night At Freddy’s’

I never got into the Friday Night at Freddy’s video game, so therefore, I won’t be as disappointed as the numerous fans over the last decade who have been waiting to see it come to screen. I’m sure their disappointment was already expected when they heard it was going to be rated PG-13. Then, UniversalContinue reading “Better Ways To Spend Two Hours Than ‘Friday Night At Freddy’s’”

‘Pet Sematary’ Finds New Life As Horror Classic Decades Later

Before I begin this post, I want to say that I express my thoughts and condolensces to the people of Maine for what has happened this past week. Also, this post will contain some spoilers so if please don’t read any further if you haven’t seen the movie or read the book. Stephen King’s PetContinue reading “‘Pet Sematary’ Finds New Life As Horror Classic Decades Later”

Richard Roundtree Was One Bad Motherf-

To call the first Shaft movie a blaxploitation movie is somewhat of an insult. The word hadn’t been coined yet and it wouldn’t come into the vernacular until late summer of 1972. Shaft told the story of a private detective hired to track down the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mobster. It’s a crime actionContinue reading “Richard Roundtree Was One Bad Motherf-“

‘Slotherhouse’ One Crazy Movie

A movie as outrageously dumb as Slotherhouse is enjoyable alone for how obvious the filmmakers just didn’t give a fuck but still manage to make a movie enoyable. Set mostly at a sorority house that looks like a secluded mansion on top of a hill (because the movie was filmed in Serbia?!?!), the plot revolvesContinue reading “‘Slotherhouse’ One Crazy Movie”

Slasher Horror Comedy About 1980s Is Almost ‘Totally Killer’

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’”

‘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”

‘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’”