Horror Rated R
“The mad scientists of Splice make Victor Frankenstein look like a reasonable man.
“…has at least one great image: a zombie woman on horseback endlessly galloping around the island like some Gothic, Bronte-inspired ghost.
“There hasn’t been this unnecessary of a back story since Ron Howard felt the need to dramatize the childhood of one Mr. Grinch.
A Nightmare on Elm Street has a powerful sense of surrealism – both visually and thematically – that more than makes up for the movie’s horror hokum. Written and directed by Wes Craven, the film takes a diabolically ingenious conceit – a killer (Robert Englund) who murders teens in their dreams, so that they’ll never
"The time counter clicks away in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, and you’ll find your eyes clinging to it like a life preserver."
“…not only shows us how fear can come to dominate the human psyche – it lets us experience it.”
Sam Raimi must have really missed demonic vomit, bursting eyeballs and other such gory delicacies. After directing three Spider-Man films, Raimi returned to the outrageous (comic?) grotesqueries of his early career (The Evil Dead) with Drag Me to Hell. It was vastly overpraised as a piece of auteurism, but then again my enjoyment of said
"Cody has a distinct authorial voice and specific, pop-culture interests – and absolutely no idea what to do with either quality."
“…a woefully bad low-budget slasher flick.”
“Jason Voorhees is resurrected once again, this time as a cranky and violent marijuana farmer.
