‘Friday the 13th Part VII – The New Blood’ Delivers When It Counts
John Carl Buechler’s “Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood” (1988) has a title with the nerve to suggest you see the first six entries in the series to understand it. You don’t. There’s a pre-title introduction, consisting of flashbacks, that is so well edited, it not only serves as a perfect refresher but …
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‘The Faculty’ – Future Stars Held Back in Mediocre B-Movie
Robert Rodriguez’s “The Faculty” (1998) is to the horror genre what “Young Guns” (1988) is to the western. Its youthful, sometimes very fun and overly familiar and it plays the same notes we’ve heard many times before. A group of very-’90s teens led by Josh Hartnett and Elijah Wood, become aware that the teachers at …
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Why ‘Child’s Play’ Remains the Creepiest Chucky Close-up
Tom Holland’s “Child’s Play” (1988) starts like a genuinely bad movie, the kind of cop movie you’ve seen dozens of times, then becomes something special. It opens with Mike Norris, a handsome cop (Chris Sarandon), chasing a long-haired villain named Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif). Ray is a serial killer and exchanging gunfire with Mike, …
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‘Skinamarink’ – 2023’s Answer to ‘The Blair Witch Project’
Kyle Edward Ball’s “Skinamarink” is the biggest horror movie Rorschach test since “The Blair Witch Project” (1999), another movie that made half the audience shake in fear, while the other half wondered, “Is that all there is?” There’s a story here but figuring it all out demands the audience pay attention. Two children wake up …
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