Undecided on the tone it's aiming for, Spider Baby oscillates between goofy and highly unsettling. About half the film is recommendable for the thrillingly disturbing horror it manages, but the other half of the film remains sluggishly dull.
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The Fog 1980
John Carpenter elevates a Stephen King Creepshow-esque B-horror to a more palatable ambiance, filtering it through his signature synth music. However, much like in Escape From New York, Carpenter hinders the film's potential by remaining too devoted to the story's B-movie origins. Imagine if the fog itself was the real terror: an unfathomable force of evil engulfing the coast! It behaves intelligently, but is it sentient? Is it sapient? Who knows! Instead, like King's The Mist, the fog is whittled…
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Black Christmas 1974
Shockingly thrilling! I was really impressed, it was a lot of fun. A couple scenes felt like they dragged on needlessly, but I guess if you shell out good money for a professional pianist and children's choir, then perhaps you feel the need to justify the expense. Otherwise, very creepy. Slasher is probably the horror subgenre I enjoy least, but Black Christmas manages to stand out for for its grounded dangers: not supernatural terrors, but a babbling, psychotic nut and…
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Annihilation 2018
Despite the middling reviews, I decided to watch Annihilation for the speculative evolution sci-fi content. I'm glad this is all I was expecting from it, because the world of Annihilation is evidently one in which people say exactly what they mean until it's convenient for the sake of plot. The dialogue is so on-the-nose, and though the movie makes so many attempts to be profound, it's still largely unengaging and dry.
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