Still More Thoughts on Movie Titles
THUNDERBOLTS, THE NEW AVENGERS and modern movie titles: the news isn’t good
DROP DEAD FRED
A nineties chick flick crossed with HARVEY and an undertone of genuine psychological unrest
THE DEVIL’S MOUNTAIN
Mexi-madness featuring the iconic gunslinger EL Payo and lots of assorted weirdness
HOLIDAYS
A product of the horror anthology craze of the 2010s that isn’t as terrible as many claim
DEATH WISH CLUB
Exploitation, gender confusion, suicide games and true love—a bad movie classic!
HWY: AN AMERICAN PASTORAL
A film made by the late Jim Morrison that’s best viewed as exactly what it was: a preview for bigger and better things that unfortunately never arrived
THE DOORS
RIP Val Kilmer (1959-2025), who gave the performance of his life in THE DOORS
FEAR (1996)
A slick and simple thriller that (mostly) works
THE JUDAS PROJECT
Although mostly forgotten these days, THE JUDAS PROJECT, which asked “What if Jesus Christ came for the first time in 1993?,” was very likely the most ambitious evangelical film of the 1990s
THE MAJESTIC
One of the most ambitious films of the aughts, and one of the biggest bombs