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Little Shop of Horrors
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The Little Shop of Horrors Review

William McPherson

I’m a sucker for old Roger Corman flicks and other such “D-Movie” shenanigans, but this movie was just a really lazy and rushed affair. I’m not one to normally harp on the superiority of remakes, but the 1986 musical version of this story is superior in just about every way. I found this flick as part of a big collection of horror movies in the five dollar bin at Walmart. It tells the story of poor put-upon Seymour, who works in a flower shop run by a petty cheapskate, and who is in love with…

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Sideways
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Sideways Review

William McPherson

It’s a real treat to stumble across a movie like ‘Sideways’. I’d never heard of this before stumbling across a showing on HBO last night, but considering it had two of my favorite character actors in Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church, I figured it was worth a shot. Giamatti plays one of the best roles of his career here. His character, Miles, is a put-upon middle school English teacher who has been divorced for two years, and is struggling to get over his ex as well as get a novel published…

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The Final Girls
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The Final Girls Review

William McPherson2 Comments

If I tell you this movie is like Scream filtered through the world of Last Action Hero, I will have given you the premise of this movie, but will have told you nothing about its heart. This movie is a parody of the classic 80s slasher genre, but, as strange as it may sound, a good natured and emotionally poignant one that clearly wears its’ heart on its sleeve. Taissa Farmiga (daughter of the beatiful and talented Vera Farmiga) plays Max, the daughter of Amanda Cartwright (Marin Akerman) a lady…

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Halloween Resurrection
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Halloween: Resurrection Review

William McPherson

This is without a doubt the laziest of all the Halloween movies. Even part three, as misguided as it was, at least tried to be creative. Halloween: Resurrection can’t be bothered with the formalities of either the franchise it represents or decent storytelling in general. For the past half dozen or so flicks, Michael Myers sole reason for continuing on was to finish the job he started when he was just a little boy one Halloween night---murdering his entire family. Depending on which chronology…

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Halloween H20
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Halloween H20 Review

William McPherson

With a title like ‘Halloween H20’ featuring a mass murderer stalking a college campus I wish I could say this movie was about Michael Myers stalking the campus of South Central Louisiana State University doing battle with Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler) with Bobby’s mom (Kathy Bates) taking over the Donald Pleasance role of reminding us that Myers is pure evil…"That Michael Myers, is THE DEVIL, Bobby!” and Henry Winkler drawing up plays to stop the carnage. Alas this movie is neither that, nor is…

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Halloween 6
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Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers Review

William McPherson

I am reviewing the director’s cut here, which is the first time I have seen it---I would like to go back and see the original theatrical now for comparison’s sake, but I’ll save that for a later review. This is the first Halloween movie I was old enough to see as a kid, and being a young horror fan back then, I found it pretty gnarly. Now as a snot nosed grown-up I have a few issues with it---it’s a bit of a stretch for me to accept that Michael Myers could rape anyone, let alone father a child…

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Halloween 5 - Revenge of Michael Myers
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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers Review

William McPherson

The Halloween franchise, compared to Freddy and Jason’s series, is probably the most uneven of all the slasher series. Nothing will ever top the awful unconnected mess of Halloween III, which is why part four was such a welcome return to form, but this entry, while still at least a somewhat competent entry in the series has a whole crapton of WTF moments. The movie brings back the Jamie character, only now she is in a children’s hospital haunted by her previous experience being guarded by inept…

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Halloween 4 Featured
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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers Review

William McPherson

Halloween 4 is the movie that brought the Halloween franchise into the same slasher-fest league as the movies that had imitated it. Whether or not that’s a good thing depends on how big a fan you are of these kinds of flicks. John Carpenter had big Twilight Zone like ideas for the series, of which H4 was supposed to be a ghost story—but after the abysmal failure of the third entry in the franchise, the producers and Mr. Carpenter decide to give the masses what they want—more Michael Myers. Never…

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Halloween 3 Featured
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Halloween 3: Season of the Witch Review

William McPherson

Only John Carpenter knows what he was thinking when he agreed to let Tommy Lee Wallace helm this strange non-sequel (which he both wrote and directed) which is the third entry into his iconic Halloween series. The plot, in as much of a nutshell as I can come up with is this: Michael Myers was (to be ret-conned in future films) burned to smithereens at the end of Halloween II---and is thus nowhere to be seen in this movie which may or may not take place in an entirely different universe…

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Halloween 2
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Halloween 2 Review

William McPherson1 Comment

This is generally how I prefer sequels to be done. Halloween 2 picks up directly where the original left off, bringing back most of the original characters (those that survived) from Halloween and setting them up for a new round of terror. Most of the action this time out takes place at the local hospital, which makes for a great place for a horror flick. One thing this movie has going against it right off the bat is that, while John Carpenter stayed on to write this sequel, he did not direct…

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Black Mass
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Black Mass Review

William McPherson2 Comments

What an unnerving film—and just in time for Halloween too. ‘Black Mass’ is an interesting exercise in genre bending/blending. There are really two films playing simultaneously. The first is the historical account of real life gangster James “Whitey” Bulger—a sociopathic killer who used his political connections to reign over South Boston (Southie) for several decades. This offers nothing new to the well-trodden ‘gangster’ genre and plays like Martin Scorsese on Quaaludes. The second movie is not…

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Freddy vs Jason
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Freddy vs. Jason Review

William McPherson

Notorious dream slayer Freddy Krueger has been dormant for years now in the little neighborhood of Elm Street. Business just ain’t what it used to be as teenagers just don’t really seem that afraid anymore, which, as the story goes greatly reduces his powers. Not one to take this lying down, he decides to lure old Hockey Puss himself out of hibernation to get the fear meter turned up a few amps so he can get back to what he does best. Only trouble is, once set loose, Jason Voorhees doesn’t…

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Jason X
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Jason X Review

William McPherson

The folks at Digital Dream Door have this movie at number 35 on their list of the 100 worst movies ever made. In his review of this movie Roger Ebert echoes the meta qualities of a quote of one of the characters who, right before being eviscerated by a giant space vacuum screams “This sucks on so many levels!”… I have to say while I agree that yes, this movie is not good in that traditional sense of the word, for what it is (that being a ridiculous crossover genre monster movie like they used to…

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Friday the 13th Part 9
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Friday The 13th Part 9: Jason Goes to Hell Review

William McPherson

This was the first movie of the series to be filmed by New Line Cinema, and boy did they take some liberties here. Like I said in one of the earlier reviews, this was basically Friday the 13th’s version of “Halloween 3: Season of the Witch”, that being a disconnected mess that has almost no continuity with the rest of the series whatsoever (not that the previous entries were big sticklers for continuity mind you). Although for continuity freaks, this movie is the set up to Freddy vs. Jason…

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Friday the 13th Part 8
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Friday The 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan Review

William McPherson

The last of the original Paramount series, this movie suffers from a couple of things. First of all, the budget for the movie was drastically cut, and so many scenes that were to be set in New York, such as Jason in Madison Square Garden, Jason in Central Park etc, had to be cut, and more scenes of Jason on the cruise ship were included. So for the bulk of this movie it is basically Jason takes the Love Boat (which has it's own special charm to it). When he finally does get to the Big Apple…

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Friday the 13th Part 7
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Friday The 13th Part 7: The New Blood Review

William McPherson

Until the 2009 reboot, this was last traditional Friday the 13th movie that would be made for over two decades. Every movie after this featured an outrageous gimmick of some kind such as Jason in New York, Jason in Space, Jason as a body jumping Hell Baby (yeah…) but here it’s just good old hockey puss in his natural element, near Camp Crystal Lake dispatching with another horny band of teenagers, and what a horny band of teenagers it was this time. I believe this movie had the biggest cast to…

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Friday the 13th Part 6
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Friday The 13th Part 6: Jason Lives Review

William McPherson

The third and final installment of the Tommy Jarvis trilogy (with each movie featuring a different actor in the role) goes out with a bang. Thom Mathews is by far my favorite actor to have played this particular protagonist in the entire series. He has a great every-man sort of quality to him, and is far more likable than the usual machete fodder that populate these kinds of films. This Friday the 13th flick has everything you could want from one of these splatter films. To begin with, Jason is…

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Friday the 13th Part 4
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Friday The 13th Part 5: A New Beginning Review

William McPherson

That final chapter idea of part four thankfully was an empty threat. However, until ‘Jason Goes to Hell’ came out, Friday the 13th Part 5 was the closest thing this franchise had to a “Halloween III: Season of the Witch” type installment---basically, one that most fans of the series tend to purposefully ignore. If you only edited so that the killer actually was (spoiler alert again) Jason Voorhees, instead of lunatic ambulance driver Roy, then it’s really not that much different from the other…

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Friday the 13th Part 4
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Friday The 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter Review

William McPherson

Friday The 13th Part 4 tells the story of Jason Voorhees heroic effort to spare us all from the career of Corey Feldman. The fourth installment in this series was also supposed to be the last, hence the name “Final Chapter”. With that in mind the creators of this movie went all out in making about as good as a by the numbers Jason flick as one can make. The movie opens with a great montage of the first three movies, giving the entire backstory of Jason from little snippets here and there, such…

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Friday the 13th Part 3
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Friday The 13th Part 3 Review

William McPherson

Friday the 13th part 3 is one of my favorites of the entire franchise. My wife and I watched this in glorious 3D with the little cardboard glasses, and were having a laugh a minute. This movie has a lot of firsts for the series. Most iconically, it is the first film to have the killer dawn the legendary goalie’s mask. I say the killer because, and this may have just been an oversight, he is not named as Jason anywhere in the movie, (spoiler alert) although unlike part five, it is generally…

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