I suppose the above graphic would have been a better inclusion when discussing One for the Money last week. (It’s currently coasting at a steady 3% on Rottentomatoes, which, admittedly, isn’t as bad as Bucky Larson, but certainly just as good as Abduction.) As February begins, we are greeted by a sentimental fight against the Soviets — sort of […]
Wes Craven’s Scream franchise has long been thought of as a series of films that parody their traditional predecessors. The first (1996) examines the various horror-movie rules and regulations that allow virgins to live, sexually experienced teenagers to die, and the sin of declaring “I’ll be right back.” Scream 2 (1997) parodies the formula for sequels while […]
In 1996, Drew Barrymore was trapped in her home, voyeurized through her many floor to ceiling windows, eventually stabbed through the heart, gutted groin to sternum, and hung from a tree with her entrails on display for her mother and father, who happened to come home shortly after. Thus began a fresh imagining in the horror genre […]
When you go to the Fairy Tale Store, there’s no aisle you can walk down to assemble the ingredients for a scenario where Party A lives in New York, Party B lives in San Francisco and the two parties live happily ever after…in their long distance relationship. That’s not a situation little girls dream of. And it’s […]