- John Hansen
- August 7, 2020
‘The Thing’ (1982) simmers in atmospheric dread
John Carpenter has built up enough of an oeuvre that everyone has their own pick for his elite work, but for me it’s “The Thing”
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- John Hansen
- July 31, 2020
‘Disturbing Behavior’ (1998) is wild, weird high school horror
In 1998, I thought “Disturbing Behavior” was an elite portrayal of high school as a conformity factory, as that concept was a new discovery for
- John Hansen
- July 24, 2020
‘Bone Tomahawk’ (2016) is gritty, brutal, great
“Bone Tomahawk” (2016) is a rare horror-Western and also a standout example of the genre. Writer-director S. Craig Zahler mashes up John Wayne and Eli
- John Hansen
- July 17, 2020
‘Nun’ (2018), ‘Curse of La Llorona’ (2019) expand Conjuring-verse
The “Conjuring” Universe is now seven films strong – with an eighth (“The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It”) on the way in September.
- John Hansen
- July 10, 2020
‘I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer’ (2006) a cheap conclusion
“I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer” (2006) goes low-budget, low-talent and straight-to-video to wrap up the trilogy. Since it came out eight years
- John Hansen
- July 3, 2020
‘I Still Know What You Did Last Summer’ (1998) a guilty pleasure
Director Danny Cannon and writer Trey Callaway pump up the humor and simple slasher pleasures in the sequel to 1997’s “I Know What You Did
- John Hansen
- June 26, 2020
‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ (1997) a slicker slasher
“Scream” (1996) introduced a new era of slasher films by being brazenly self-referential, but also by having better production values and acting than the previous
- John Hansen
- June 19, 2020
‘Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan’ (1989) ends era with whimper
Paramount held the rights to “Friday the 13th” for the first eight films before handing them off to New Line Cinema, and it closes the
- John Hansen
- June 12, 2020
‘Virus’ (1999) is derivative but endearing
I was gung-ho for “Virus” in 1998; I gobbled up the 1992 comic series by Chuck Pfarrer (who co-writes the screenplay), and I recall the
- John Hansen
- June 5, 2020
‘Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood’ (1988) goes supernatural
I’ve complained that most of the “Friday the 13th” sequels tentatively try something new but don’t commit to it, so I admire “Friday the 13th