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Showing posts with label slasher. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Midnight Movie...
One of my all time favorite places for horror movies to take place is a movie theatre. I think the general theatre atmosphere can only add to a movie, especially if it is supposed to be scary, exciting or both. The majority of Midnight Movie takes place in an old movie theatre. The cool old style ones, with only a few screens, a small concession stand and the hallway leading to the different screens. So already this movie had a lot going for it, imo.
The movie is about a rare screening of a horror movie. Well the director/star of the movie has been locked away in an insane asylum, but of course, he escapes on the eve of the showing. Well the movie plays and soon enough, characters from the audience start dying on the screen. It seems that the hulking killer from the movie can skip between the screen and real life.
In addition to the setting, the movie has a other things going for it. The first is a couple of likable characters. One of them is fairly amusing even, and has all the good lines. Since this is a slasher movie, we need well executed gore effects. This movie delivers a couple of those. I didn't think they were anything mind blowing, but they were certainly well done. A couple of the death scenes fall flat, but thats par for the course.
The design of the killer was pretty cool too. And I'll commend the movie for taking time to develop the characters before the killing starts.
It's not all good though. A few parts of the movie are dull. This is especially notable once the cat and mouse games start. You know, the killer has been chasing people around for a while, and you glance at the clock and there is still twenty minutes left. Hmmmm, not a good sign. The movie opens and contiues with a great pace but things progressivly slow down as the movie continues. I'm not saying that it's bad, because its worth a viewing or two, but had the initial energy been maintaing throughout the entire movie, I would have been much happier about the end results.
The movie is about a rare screening of a horror movie. Well the director/star of the movie has been locked away in an insane asylum, but of course, he escapes on the eve of the showing. Well the movie plays and soon enough, characters from the audience start dying on the screen. It seems that the hulking killer from the movie can skip between the screen and real life.
In addition to the setting, the movie has a other things going for it. The first is a couple of likable characters. One of them is fairly amusing even, and has all the good lines. Since this is a slasher movie, we need well executed gore effects. This movie delivers a couple of those. I didn't think they were anything mind blowing, but they were certainly well done. A couple of the death scenes fall flat, but thats par for the course.
The design of the killer was pretty cool too. And I'll commend the movie for taking time to develop the characters before the killing starts.
It's not all good though. A few parts of the movie are dull. This is especially notable once the cat and mouse games start. You know, the killer has been chasing people around for a while, and you glance at the clock and there is still twenty minutes left. Hmmmm, not a good sign. The movie opens and contiues with a great pace but things progressivly slow down as the movie continues. I'm not saying that it's bad, because its worth a viewing or two, but had the initial energy been maintaing throughout the entire movie, I would have been much happier about the end results.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Sorority House Massacre...
I remember, at the height of the home video boom, going to stores and selecting movies based off of the box art. There were so many titles that promised gold and delivered shit, yet they were big renters due to their superb cover art. Microwave Massacre comes to mind when I think of that situation. In hindsight, I was a young boy, so basically any box promising bloodshed and tits was going to be a hit and I did base many many many many movie rentals off of box art with a big titted babe on the cover. Sorority House Massacre was one of those rentals. I was already a slasher movie fan, and the cover art for this fed into all of my interests. It was a picture of a girl in a sexy outfit and there was a silhouette of a guy with a knife looking through the window at her. Haha! It's classic VHS cover art. I don't remember specifically, but the girl on the cover might not have even been in the movie. Back then, that was a common occurance, pictures of people on the cover who weren't even in the movie.
Through all my years of movie watching and collecting I have never seen a VHS of this besides the time that I rented it. It is on DVD now though. I often read reviews of this where people completely confuse it with Slumber Party Massacre. I think later sequels of that movie are tied into the sequel to this movie, so I think that is where the confusion comes from.
As a slasher movie, this one is ok. The set up is about a group of girl who are having a party at a house and one of the girls is psychically linked to events that had happened in the house in the past. The first half of this is pretty cool. They have a lot of shots of the girl and the killer having similar behavior and the girl even mimicing his behavior. I thought those shots were great and added a lot to the movie. In fact, I say that added to the creepiness factor, something which a lot of similar movies of the time were lacking. Of course, the killer eventually shows up and it falls in place with standard slasher fare.
I like the fact that the film makers tried to do something a little different with this and although it does turn into a generic slasher movie, I say it is still worth a watch.
Through all my years of movie watching and collecting I have never seen a VHS of this besides the time that I rented it. It is on DVD now though. I often read reviews of this where people completely confuse it with Slumber Party Massacre. I think later sequels of that movie are tied into the sequel to this movie, so I think that is where the confusion comes from.
As a slasher movie, this one is ok. The set up is about a group of girl who are having a party at a house and one of the girls is psychically linked to events that had happened in the house in the past. The first half of this is pretty cool. They have a lot of shots of the girl and the killer having similar behavior and the girl even mimicing his behavior. I thought those shots were great and added a lot to the movie. In fact, I say that added to the creepiness factor, something which a lot of similar movies of the time were lacking. Of course, the killer eventually shows up and it falls in place with standard slasher fare.
I like the fact that the film makers tried to do something a little different with this and although it does turn into a generic slasher movie, I say it is still worth a watch.
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