I’m a David Gordon Green Stan, that’s right we are out there, but even this I can’t defend well.
I liked parts of this movie, and the parts I enjoyed really captured me and entertained, but this movie is firmly the start of a trilogy, there are plot points brought up and dropped. Lots of unresolved conflict, and way too much fan service winking that says “bet ya can’t wait for the next one?”
Well I can wait, because this…
Ok….Evil Dead Rise…….
Somehow, whenever a new addition to this property pops up, I have my usual reservations, it’s hard to follow up a cult trilogy like the Evil Dead. Yet the formula of connecting these movies loosely has served the franchise well. This movie is an Evil Dead movie and a great one. It’s also the second movie to tell fans that this formula works without the franchise staple hero, Ash. So the moronic complainers who want Bruce Campbell…
First off, Die mad. Second, I really enjoyed this last entry in David Gordon Greens take on Halloween.
I actually have enjoyed each of his three films on different levels. First one, a serviceable follow up to the John Carpenter original, second was a dumb fun spree slasher flick, and now the third…well.
Without spoiling anything let me start with something I said years ago when I learned that yet another Halloween sequel was being made, “they better go different”.…
Smile starts off feeling like a return to the J-horror remake boom of the early 2000’s. Sure it apes it a bit, but the film is surprisingly captivating, and not nearly as dumb as you think.
In fact the film crafts a really great story, characters I genuinely give a damn about, and wisely it never gives a true form to its horror, only more and more demented visions.
Smile is the first film in a while that does what…
