I am continuing to go through all of Tim Burton’s movies. I have always liked Beetlejuice–the premise of it at least. The idea of the ghosts of a yuppie couple trying to drive out the living, even more yuppie couple from the house they loved in life is a good one. Alex Baldwin (whom I [...]
Every now and then when I am feeling tired or worried about not being able to give my daily movie the attention it deserves, I will watch something have seen before and I know I will not like very much on a repeat viewing but go ahead and do so against my own better judgment. [...]
Seeing A Stolen Life yesterday left me hungry for some more creepy twin films, and decided to go directly to one of the creepiest ever made. I saw Dead Ringers not too long after it was first released, probably on rental video. There is one thing that has changed since I saw it the last [...]
Strictly speaking, this is not a movie, but actually a mini-series that aired over four nights on British TV in 1988, the centenary of the Jack the Ripper case. I did not know that when I got a hold of a copy of that, and watched it straight through, like a very long movie and [...]
I remember seeing the TV commercials for Monkey Shines, which tried hard to be creepy with a slow pan reveal of one of those wind-up monkey dolls crashing cymbals. I later saw what was probably a fairly heavily edited version on TV, not realizing at the time that it was directed by zombie godfather George [...]
After watching Forbidden Planet, Airplane, an episode of “Police Squad!” and Dracula Dead and Loving It with friends yesterday, I still felt the need to carry on with the Leslie Nielsen memorial. Airplane was a work of comedy genius in that it took a the dramatic genre of the airport disaster films of the ‘70s, [...]
John Carpenter had a fairly interesting idea for his film They Live, which transcends the horror genre the director usually works in. The concept, which is pretty obvious after 15 minutes, is that alien ghouls are using TV signals to mask their horrible appearance and the subliminal messages they use to control the consumerist society. [...]
Year in Film: 1988
Beetlejuice
I am continuing to go through all of Tim Burton’s movies. I have always liked Beetlejuice–the premise of it at least. The idea of the ghosts of a yuppie couple trying to drive out the living, even more yuppie couple from the house they loved in life is a good one. Alex Baldwin (whom I [...]
Child’s Play
Every now and then when I am feeling tired or worried about not being able to give my daily movie the attention it deserves, I will watch something have seen before and I know I will not like very much on a repeat viewing but go ahead and do so against my own better judgment. [...]
Dead Ringers
Seeing A Stolen Life yesterday left me hungry for some more creepy twin films, and decided to go directly to one of the creepiest ever made. I saw Dead Ringers not too long after it was first released, probably on rental video. There is one thing that has changed since I saw it the last [...]
Jack The Ripper
Strictly speaking, this is not a movie, but actually a mini-series that aired over four nights on British TV in 1988, the centenary of the Jack the Ripper case. I did not know that when I got a hold of a copy of that, and watched it straight through, like a very long movie and [...]
Monkey Shines
I remember seeing the TV commercials for Monkey Shines, which tried hard to be creepy with a slow pan reveal of one of those wind-up monkey dolls crashing cymbals. I later saw what was probably a fairly heavily edited version on TV, not realizing at the time that it was directed by zombie godfather George [...]
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
After watching Forbidden Planet, Airplane, an episode of “Police Squad!” and Dracula Dead and Loving It with friends yesterday, I still felt the need to carry on with the Leslie Nielsen memorial. Airplane was a work of comedy genius in that it took a the dramatic genre of the airport disaster films of the ‘70s, [...]
They Live
John Carpenter had a fairly interesting idea for his film They Live, which transcends the horror genre the director usually works in. The concept, which is pretty obvious after 15 minutes, is that alien ghouls are using TV signals to mask their horrible appearance and the subliminal messages they use to control the consumerist society. [...]