Shel Michael

Shel Michael

Are the movies actually back, baby? Perhaps!

Favorite films

  • The Devils
  • Perfect Blue
  • Point Break
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street

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  • Duck Amuck

    ★★★★★

  • The Great Piggy Bank Robbery

    ★★★★

  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★★½

  • Friday

    ★★★½

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  • Halloween

    Halloween

    ★★★

    I have finally reached one of the two most contentious films of the series and I've come to realized that I like this a whole lot more than I remembered?

    I don't. Overly enjoy it. I do think it's much too long with a lot of shoe leather that could've been trimmed and I'm frustrated with how Zombie just couldn't help himself and stick in his usual dirtshit yokel schtick throughout. It's also the sleaziest the series had gotten up…

  • Halloween: Resurrection

    Halloween: Resurrection

    ★★

    After some truly wonderful content in the last entry, you would think Rosenthal returning to the series to direct another sequel after being the one to make the best sequel of the series up until this point in it would make things even better.

    It uh! It didn't!

    Brand & Hood decide to embrace the early aughts' obsession with That Wacky Internet and shove Michael into the still burgeoning reality TV trend and obviously it didn't age well. You still can't…

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  • Jigsaw

    Jigsaw

    ★★★½

    SAW 3D should've ended my marathon with a bang, but here it's ended in a firecracker. It's a reboot that wants reinvention and delivers decent thrills and fun, but I don't know if I can say it's truly successful.

    The Spierig Brothers and Not certainly make it nice to look at with its obviously bigger budget, but having Greutert back in the editor's chair seems like a waste when he's not given the chance to do the usual bombastic style…

  • Saw 3D

    Saw 3D

    ★★★

    My marathon has been a fun one with some great highs and disappointing lows and while some low points appear here, Jesus Christ this ends on one of the highest, loudest, and silliest notes of the series. What a delight.

    As I neglected to mention last time, Greutert's turn from editor to director works there and here, bringing flashier visuals than Hackl did in his one outing. Coutts does a fine job imitating his editing style to bring it all…