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Salem's Lot 2024
The best thing I can say about this film is that it is serviceable. Beyond that, it was unnecessary and completely forgettable.
I appreciate that the look for Barlow in this film is "Hollywood"-era Marilyn Manson. I just hate that his jaw and mouth are CGI'd at times. The CGI effects are sloppy, so Barlow's look does not have the menace that it should, if they had just used a prosthetic mouth.
My favorite character is Mark Petrie. The actor…
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A Return to Salem's Lot 1987
What an odd film to review. I can't say that I liked A Return to Salem's Lot, and I have to admit that the only reason I finished it was because I spent $3.99 (which is highway robbery) to rent the movie. That said, I expected to hate this film, and I did not.
"Resent" is a harsh word, but I do think the movie poster is deceiving, and I kind of resent that. We don't get a return of…
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Clue 1985
Clue is a movie that absolutely should not work. It is a film based on a board game. That said, this movie is perfection. Everything from the cast, the script, the rainy late 40's, early 50's setting, the soundtrack, and Jonathan Lynn's directing- all of these ingredients produce that rare "lightening in a bottle" experience that can never be reproduced. It is cinematic magic. Every single actor here is perfectly cast, and they play off of one another so well.…
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Halloween 1978
Horror is my favorite genre of fiction. Slashers are one of my favorite subgenres of horror. That said, as much as I enjoy a good slasher film, most are disposable entertainment that I quickly forget soon after watching them probably because most slashers are fairly formulaic.
The one exception is John Carpenter's Halloween. If you ask me what a perfect slasher would look like, it is this film. Though Halloween is not the first slasher movie, it is the one…
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