CATCHING UP WITH FILM - FILM CRITICISM WITH AN EYE ON A PERSONAL CANON

The three most prominent American horror franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street) have influenced American cinema even beyond the horror genre. As of 2021, there are exactly 31 movies across all three franchises, and I am going to attempt to watch all of them, for this Halloween, one per day. I didn’t know if it would really be illuminating to go through the entire franchise before revisiting David Gordon Green’s version, but I think it has been

The three most prominent American horror franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street) have influenced American cinema even beyond the horror genre. As of 2021, there are exactly 31 movies across all three franchises, and I am going to attempt to watch all of them, for this Halloween, one per day. It’s almost a cliche that many major actors got their start in horror films, often pretty crappy ones. Naomi Watts in one of the Children of the Corn movies

The three most prominent American horror franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street) have influenced American cinema even beyond the horror genre. As of 2021, there are exactly 31 movies across all three franchises, and I am going to attempt to watch all of them, for this Halloween, one per day. I really dig Rob Zombie’s version of Halloween and its sequel. I had heard bad things about this particular sequel, how it was basically incomprehensible an

The three most prominent American horror franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street) have influenced American cinema even beyond the horror genre. As of 2021, there are exactly 31 movies across all three franchises, and I am going to attempt to watch all of them, for this Halloween, one per day. Thank God I am done with this franchise. It’s been a really long, mostly disappointing ride. I don’t necessarily regret watching all of them because I under

The three most prominent American horror franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street) have influenced American cinema even beyond the horror genre. As of 2021, there are exactly 31 movies across all three franchises, and I am going to attempt to watch all of them, for this Halloween, one per day. Rob Zombie has always been a peripheral figure in my life. A musician that my conservative parents would flip out about if they caught me listening to him.

The three most prominent American horror franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street) have influenced American cinema even beyond the horror genre. As of 2021, there are exactly 31 movies across all three franchises, and I am going to attempt to watch all of them, for this Halloween, one per day. The idea of a crossover movie is pure fan service, and after seeing this movie, it really is just that. I think just the prospect of seeing these two togeth

The three most prominent American horror franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street) have influenced American cinema even beyond the horror genre. As of 2021, there are exactly 31 movies across all three franchises, and I am going to attempt to watch all of them, for this Halloween, one per day. It makes sense this movie came out the same year as Jason X did. It’s very much geared towards the same audience, a young one made up of mostly horny, teena

The three most prominent American horror franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street) have influenced American cinema even beyond the horror genre. As of 2021, there are exactly 31 movies across all three franchises, and I am going to attempt to watch all of them, for this Halloween, one per day. This may be the first movie in any of these franchises that would benefit from a bad movie night. One could argue that Friday the 13th jumped the shark many

The three most prominent American horror franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street) have influenced American cinema even beyond the horror genre. As of 2021, there are exactly 31 movies across all three franchises, and I am going to attempt to watch all of them, for this Halloween, one per day. I gotta say, I really missed Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode. I’m glad that she didn’t get stuck making these movies, one bad sequel after another, though

The three most prominent American horror franchises (Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street) have influenced American cinema even beyond the horror genre. As of 2021, there are exactly 31 movies across all three franchises, and I am going to attempt to watch all of them, for this Halloween, one per day. I guess I have to appreciate an attempt to make an already tired series a bit deeper. Frankly though, Michael Myers never struck me as a nerd who got way to