Another pitch-perfect horror piece from the 80s. In my opinion, it's really Clare Higgins that carries this movie! Masterful art direction, story craft, photography. Great gross-out factor and gothic atmosphere.
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Phantasm 1979
I'm so glad that I decided to revisit this movie, which I had not seen since I was a kid. There are films that, upon rewatching, don't hold up in quite the same way we remember them affecting us back in the day. Not so with Phantasm. I'm obsessed with its aesthetics, with the mood that it creates and holds over its 1-1/2 hours. The imagery that I recalled is still every bit as weird, creepy, and bold as it ever was.
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Psycho 1960
"I think that we're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and we claw, but only at the air, only at each other..." (Norman Bates)
It's impossible to overstate the seminal importance of Psycho in the history of cinema, and in culture at large. This film follows on the heels of two other masterpieces by Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo ('58) and North by Northwest ('59). Yet in many ways, Psycho…
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Halloween 2018
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Is the boogeyman still scary in today’s world? Halloween 2018 shows us that he damn well can be. Superbly acted with a smart script to boot, and with a phenomenal new score by John Carpenter, the new installment in the Halloween series made this fan really happy.
**SPOILERS AHEAD**
In some ways, this film feels like the actual sequel to the classic. Why? Because Laurie Strode is no longer lying comatose in a claustrophobic hospital. Instead, we get a pretty…
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