Brett Gallman

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Favorite films

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
  • Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
  • The Warriors
  • Tremors

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  • Halloween II

    Halloween II

    ★★★★½

    Haddonfield's (and heartland America's?) dark night of the soul. If the original Halloween is carefree late afternoon and early evening trick or treating, then this is an after-midnight, witching hour reckoning.

    Halloween is getting ready for the annual dance and working up the courage to ask a boy out; Halloween II is your crush melting away, a fiery husk crumbling into the flaming wreckage of a car accident.

    Halloween is candy and jack-o-lanterns; Halloween II is razor blades in apples.…

  • Blood Rage

    Blood Rage

    ★★★½

    My favorite movies are the ones where you're pretty sure everyone involved needs therapy of some kind.

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  • Juror #2

    Juror #2

    ★★★★

    I have to admit this lingers on for exactly one shot too long, but David Zaslav will never see heaven for sending it directly to streaming.

  • Terrifier 3

    Terrifier 3

    ★★★

    This kind of endurance test horror isn't really my kind of thing, but I had a begrudging respect for TERRIFIER 2 because Leone made such an artistic leap from the original. Between the evocative photography, intriguing lore, and Lauren LaVera's revelatory turn, Leone crafted a fascinating paradox: a slasher movie epic that beat the one-trick pony allegations.

    Unfortunately, the same can't exactly be said for this latest outing, a half-baked rehash that finds Leone still pushing the envelope but not…

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  • Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

    Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

    ★★★★★

    Sean Cunningham and Steve Miner set the mold, Joseph Zito refined it, and Danny Steinmann unhinged it. And then Tom McLoughlin came along and reshaped it, nudging a few holes and wrinkles into it with Jason Lives, the first of the series to show some self-awareness. It's not a glib, above-it-all self-awareness, though, and that makes all the difference. Sometimes I think McLoughlin really "got" this series better than anyone, and it's a shame this was his only outing. I think he would have especially delivered a killer Freddy vs Jason had they actually produced it in the 80s.

  • Dutch

    Dutch

    ★★★½

    It's not Thanksgiving until Ed O'Neill shoots Ethan Embry in the ass.