In Defense of Sequels
I’m sure you’ve heard the news: SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR, the nine-years-after-the-fact sequel to 2005’s SIN CITY, opened last Friday…and tanked big time.
FIGHT CLUB at 15
FIGHT CLUB, released in October of 1999, was and remains one of the most outrageously subversive big studio movies of all time.
JAWS at 40
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the June 20, 1975 release of Steven Spielberg’s JAWS
PSYCHO at 55
Here we’re going to look at what is very likely the most iconic and widely discussed horror movie of all time.
In Defense of Sequels: The Sequel
In today’s franchise-obsessed Hollywood sequels are all-important. Sequels, after all, are the easiest type of film to market (they have a built-in fan base), and can on occasion far out gross the original film.
CANDYMAN
This racially tinged gorefest is a standout horror film of the 1990s, and one of the best Clive Barker adaptations to date
All About THE THING
The saga of what is now commonly known as THE THING has a 70-plus year history that, not unlike the unstoppable shape-shifting “Thing” itself
BLACK MAGIC 2
This 1976 sequel to the Shaw Brothers classic BLACK MAGIC lacks the narrative drive of its predecessor, but makes up for it in sheer outrageousness
BLACK MAGIC (1975)
Of the many Hong Kong horror pictures made by the Shaw Brothers during the seventies, BLACK MAGIC is far from the best, even if it is the best known
BILL AND TED’S BOGUS JOURNEY
I’ve always liked this maligned sequel to BILL AND TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE, which far outpaces that film in spectacle and invention