I was underwhelmed by Fear Street Part 2: 1978 because it was exactly the same movie as Fear Street Part 1: 1994, except that the cast and location changed (the second movie switched to Camp Nightwing and an earlier time period). And I think that that’s expected if you’re dealing with the typical movie where […]
I didn’t see the first Goosebumps because–in hindsight–I don’t believe in horror for children. By which I mean I grew up in the Seventies and distinctly remembering going to the theater with my brothers and some friends to see Arnold. I haven’t seen it since but recall it revolving around a dead guy marrying a […]
William Brent Bell’s The Boy is one of the first movies released by STX Entertainment, a new studio launched in 2014. It reminds me vaguely of two movies. The first is 1973’s Arnold, which revolved around a woman marrying a corpse–not Rupert Murdoch, though I can understand the confusion. The second is Gremlins, especially when the sitter […]
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