Eve Tushnet reviews two slasher movies! Terror Train and Black Christmas, to be precise, with her take on the latter uniquely Tushnetian.
Final Girl’s Stacie Ponder ponders Hellraiser.
Rob Humanick continues his 31 Days of Zombie! blogathon with a look at Lucio Fulci’s wildly overrated (by Rob and others) Zombi 2. Even if you, like me, believe there’s nothing to this film other than the astonishingly grotesque zombie effects and their spectacular presentation, it’s a review worth reading for its thoughts on that aspect.
Not Coming to a Theater Near You’s Teddy Blanks continues that site’s 31 Days of Horror blogathon with a look at Brian DePalma’s wildly underrated Body Double. Quote of the day:
Body Double, though, is in its own universe, a sublimely ridiculous piece of schooled filmmaking that embraces the sheen and excess of cheap 80s Hollywood as a flashy new avant-garde.
That is exactly right.
Over at the Horror Roundtable, everybody hates these taffy/toffee Halloween candies in orange-and-black wrappers that I’ve never seen before in my life.
On a note related to that asinine Nikki Finke quote about torture porn from the other day, here’s a Jon Hastings post decrying another attempt to apply a “would you play it for your parents?” standard to art, this time to music. Shit, with a lot of music, not being able to comfortably play it for your parents is the whole point.
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Watching the film once again, Romero’s carefully calculated deconstructions on social woes of the time seem most brilliant in their simultaneously identifying the film as a distinctly American work rooted in the cultural anarchy of the 1970’s as well a…