I watched 6 movies last week:
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- Intruder is mostly not good, but it’s occasionally not good in some interesting ways. You can see some of the sensibility of Evil Dead II in the movie—director Scott Spiegel co-wrote that movie with longtime friend Sam Raimi, and both Raimi brothers (and Bruce Campbell) appear in this one—but it feels very stitched together, overly violent when it isn’t boring, and suffers very much by the comparison.
- The House on Sorority Row is mostly not good, but it’s never not good in any interesting ways.
- After the previous couple of films in the franchise, which really ramped up the campy horror, Curse of Chucky surprises by being mostly just a straight-up scary movie, and I think I much prefer that.
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- The Night Stalker feels very much like a ’70s TV movie, but a really good one. Darren McGavin is a lot of fun the role of Kolchak, and it’s not hard to see why they made another one of these shortly thereafter and then a series.
- If The Night Strangler isn’t quite the equal to its predecessor, it’s still a lot of fun.
- The Invisible Man Returns can’t really settle on a tone and never makes much use of its effects or cast, particularly Vincent Price, who is almost never actually on screen.
I also rewatched 28 Weeks Later, which I’d forgotten doesn’t have much of a plot beyond everything going very sideways very quickly, but which still works for all that, as another vignette in this series’ end of the world. I also rewatched From Beyond, which can’t quite measure up to Re-Animator, Stuart Gordon’s earlier Lovecraft adaption with Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Cranston, but it’s a still a lot of goopy and creepy fun.