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Four
Horror Icons stumbling second efforts. |
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Even
though I call this retrospective Sophomore
Slumps,
it
doesn't mean that I'm exclusively
talking about second efforts.
Obviously, this is not Carpenter's second
film; Darkstar
and Assault
on Precinct 13
came out way before, but this film came
out right after the director hit it big
with Halloween.
And while I enjoy the heck out of it,
the film does stub it's toe rather badly
in a few
spots... |
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Romero
almost escaped this thing because I was
under the wrong impression that The
Crazies
was
his next film after Night
of the Living Dead.
I was wrong. And after tracking down and
watching Season
of the Witch,
I really, really, REALLY wished The
Crazies
was
Romero's next film right after Night
of the Living Dead.
This movie makes my brain hurt in so
many ways... |
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I'll
argue with anyone that Wes Craven
doesn't make horror movies anymore. Now,
he only makes "scary" ones --
and believe
me, there's a difference. He
used to make great horror films;
extremely brutal and unnerving
experiences that made me very
uncomfortable, and I had a hard time
shaking some of the visuals. So I guess
that makes this his last hurrah. Watch
this film and weep for what might have
been... |
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And
finally, we have Tobe Hooper: our biggest
culprit. Even though I think The
Funhouse is horribly underrated,
Hooper has never even come close to
matching his first effort. Like Craven,
I didn't find The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre all that
scary, but a completely brutal and
unnerving film-watching experience that
really gets under your skin. His second
effort, however, is just plain brutal to
sit through... |
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