Just in case you missed it in 1997, Titanic is being released, this time replete with 3D gimmickry. Now you can see Kate Winslet’s breast lunging out of the screen, and the giant iceberg might just appear to be “dead ahead!” If those don’t tickle your fancy, DiCaprio’s icicle body will surely look magnificent in its 3D glory […]
Question 1: What’s the state of the American horror film? Steve Barker: There are two popular formulas in horror right now: the super gory torture movies (Saw, Hostel) and the documentary style where things pop out at unexpected moments and scare the shit out of the audience (Paranormal Activity, Apollo 18). Neither of these forums is all that original. […]
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 […]
Fans are fans. They will do what fans do. They will gush. (Sometimes they will grumble.) Critics are critics. They will do what critics do. They will criticize. (Sometimes they will praise.) All of which is to say that whatever you’ve heard about Scream 4 is absolutely true. It’s doesn’t matter what you’ve heard, it’s true. It’s […]
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 […]