CrypticAeon

CrypticAeon

Avid Horror & Exploitation film fanatic.

Favorite films

  • Bride of Frankenstein
  • Zombie Flesh Eaters
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • The Toxic Avenger

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  • I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

    ★★★★

  • The Astro-Zombies

    ★½

  • An American Werewolf in London

    ★★★★★

  • Friday the 13th

    ★★★

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  • I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

    I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

    ★★★★

    I see I'm in the minority on this, but I liked this film quite a bit. It was mostly what I was hoping it would be. Great makeup design, brisk pace, and I especially liked the (admittedly not-so-subtle) allusions to disaffected youth and teenage alienation. Almost like a proto Edward Scissorhands take on the monster. It's fun 50's drive-in schlock with extra pathos, which is pretty cool if you ask me.

  • The Astro-Zombies

    The Astro-Zombies

    ★½

    Boring as fuck, but I kinda dug the atmosphere.

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  • Friday the 13th

    Friday the 13th

    ★★★

    While it definitely isn't one of the best F13 films, I always thought that it got a bad rep. I think there's a lot to like here, especially Derek Mear's aggressive portrayal of Jason. It plays kind of like a greatest hits compilation of the first 4 films, which I think is kinda cool. Not amazing, but good for what it is. I admittedly liked it a lot more when I was younger, and ended up seeing it in theaters…

  • Them!

    Them!

    ★★★★

    There were many films about giant bugs made throughout the 1950's, but for my money this one outdoes the competition by a long shot. Easily the best film of it's type. It's surprisingly effective and suspenseful considering the type of movie that it is. It's still far from Hitchcock, but there's a feel for pacing and atmosphere that most other films of this type lack. It's basically everything you'd want out of a movie about giant radioactive ants in New Mexico.

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