I’ve been slowly chipping away at horror/Halloween classics for the past few years, and this was in theaters for the 35th anniversary so I checked it out. I knew almost nothing about this movie besides seeing Beetlejuice & Lydia costumes over the years.
I was okay with the story for a while, though for how light the tone is it’s kind of depressing. Beetlejuice didn’t really feel like he fit into the movie very well in my opinion, and he contributes…
I really like Hill House & Bly Manor and was somewhat disappointed by Midnight Mass, but I was still hyped to see what Flanagan came up with from Poe. I’d read most of the stories this show draws from in middle school, and I admit after I finished I read the two I hadn’t (Fall of the House of Usher and The Black Cat - both weaker Poe stories!).
Where the previous shows diverge from the original source, I think this…
I was 9 when the first movie came out, and for some reason I absolutely refused to go join my family at the theater for the multiple times they saw it. I did see it on video, and was fairly lukewarm on it.
Now I’m an adult so I got myself out to the theater for 3+ hours out of my day to see the long-awaited sequel. If this were the situation in which I were seeing the first one,…
Is it great? No. Is it horrible? No. The cast is fine, including the kids, though Tony Hale’s character is fairly weak and he is underutilized. I think the changing of Emily Elizabeth’s life (she’s so poor they live in “Harlem Apartments”) is bizarre but I guess gives the story some more depth. The plot is unsurprisingly weak and obvious, but hey, the kids in my theater seemed to be in a pretty good mood at the end of this…
