NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET REMAKE - 6/10
First of all, I've never been a huge Kreuger fan, and definitely not a huge remake fan, but this is one of the funniest films I've ever seen, and was genuinely entertaining, so that puts it about a billion times above than part 2, part 4, part 5, and freddy vs. jason. Not even half as good as part 1, part 3, freddy's dead, or new nightmare, though.

Some questions/observations.. spoilers, obviously:

1) Dean... okay, the camera clearly shows that there's a camera in the cell. So, you'd think this would be something important; to show that the police realize that people are getting killed without anyone actually, you know, doing it. I think this one is supposed to be open ended, for the eventual, uh, "remake sequel", but it still was odd that they lingered on the security cam footage for so long when nothing ever came out of it...

2) Why is everyone in this film obviously, like, 25-30? But playing 17-18 year olds?! Pretty odd.

3) I can understand how Freddy can interact with people in their dreams, but how can he interact with the real world? Take the scene at the pharmacy, where Nancy is scooting away from him. It keeps cutting back from the "real world" to the "dream world", back and forth. Showing her scooting away in the dream boiler room, and then showing that in reality she's scooting away in the dream pharmacy. All this is well and good, but then it shows Freddy clearly use his kills to spark metal in the dream world -- and in the real world, it shows that he knocked a bunch of products off in the aisle. This makes absolute no sense. He can't manipulate the real world at all, can he? Just the people's dreams.

4) This goes along with above. If people are "Running away" in the dream world, and it shows them "running away" in reality, why does that only happen part of the time? Nancy scooting back in the real world coincided with her doing that in the dream world. Yet, there are other scenarios where it just shows people dreaming, yet they're clearly running in their dreams. Shouldn't they be "running" (even in place) in the real world?

5) What the *beep* was up with the climax? Freddy enters the real world and gets beaten around because he was "on top" of Nancy at the top and that sucked him back into the real world?! What? There were other moments where he was on top of characters and that didn't happen.

6) If Freddy can manipulate all space and time in the dream world, why doesn't he just, uh, you know, kill people that way? I don't understand them "running away" and him "catching up to" them and whatever. That is pretty much half the movie -- the other half is JUMP SCARES!... But, like with Nancy. All that stuff at the end was unnneccessary. He could have just killed her in her dreams by manipulating everything, and molested her corpse or whatever he wanted to do.

also gonin - 9/10

an all time fav

not bad, could have been a lot worse if it wasnt for jeff bridges.

X-Men
hadn't seen it since it first came out on DVD. I still like it.

much better than I expected, lots of laughs.

what the fuck, they're making a scream 4?!



oh, well.. okay.

private parts (1972) - 7/10

Scre4m has been in talks for a while now. For a while there was a Lohan rumor attached to it as well.

good god she never looked so good!

Of course those tail on their career actors are going to do another Scream.

Tender Mercies

On Blu-Ray:

6.5/10
Well made... but not always interesting. It was a major come down from the first part.

I love Tender Mercies. Also see Bell Diamond and Slow Moves.

The cinematography in Prom Night is heavily underrated. Robert New did an excellent job.












I've always been somewhat disappointed with Sleepaway Camp 2. But I always felt that Part 3, Teenage Wasteland, always gave the original SC one hell of a run for it's money. It's brilliant.

happy birthday to me was always one of my favorites, thanks for reminding me of it so i can finally get it on dvd..

It's $5 at Wal-Mart. Check the bins. They always have precious gems hidden in there.

Thanks to your signature, a photo of someone that reminds me of Angela at the end of 1, and a friend watching slasher flicks for a college paper, I have been in a slight Sleepaway Camp mood lately. I have the first one on disc somewhere, but had yet to check out the sequels till now. The 2nd one was a bit of a letdown in all honesty, and they left no surprise at all for any killing. They do make up for that a bit with some of the ways Angela kills the victims. My personal favorite is the shithouse drowning.

Working on acquiring a copy of SC3 now and will hopefully see it soon.

It's outrageous. Great deaths, tons of fake tits, wonderfully tacky wardrobe, insane characters rapidly delivering highly quotable lines - the entire film is an over-the-top goldmine of everything that's amazing about b-cinema, surprisingly intertwined with a compelling plot. It's a definite must-see for lovers of the genre.

was drunk w/friend last nite who made me watch this:

i watched cabin fever 2 a few days ago and i thought it was so good. i have really high standards for awful horror movies, so you can trust me.