Showing posts with label week one. Show all posts
Showing posts with label week one. Show all posts
Sunday, October 12, 2014
The Madness: Automatons Week 1
Magic is a great film. The central performance by Anthony Hopkins is the right level of manic and over the top for me and the film carries a real sense of dread as it builds to its conclusion....Rating: 4/5
I don't care that Maximum Overdrive has a 17% on Rotten Tomatoes and has been panned by critics. I don't care that Stephen King was coked up throughout production and had no clue what he was doing. I don't are that Lisa Simpson is incredibly grating and annoying throughout the film. I don't care that the choice to have ACDC score a horror film seems a bit odd. I love it anyway. Recommended for me and like minded viewers....Rating: 4/5
Westworld is still quite enjoyable it does feel a bit dated by today's standards. I wouldn't mind seeing an update to this material that fully explores the themes of how we interact and deal with technology that has been created solely to amuse and please us even after it seems to break away from it's programming. Also, James Cameron had to have seen this movie before he made the Terminator....Rating: 3.5/5
I still remember the first time I saw The Living Doll. My brother and I were watching a Twilight Zone marathon when I was about 7 when this episode came on. It scared the hell out of us. While I don't find Talky Tina nearly as frightening today it's still a great episode and Telly Savalas is such a douchebag that watching him get his comeuppance is still a pleasure. Highly recommended....Rating: 5/5
Jack in the Box is about a young girl whose father is murdered and she uses a Jack in the Box to exact revenge. I watched the episode because I find Jack in the Boxes to be pretty creepy and this sounded like it had a lot of potential. Unfortunately it was pretty awful. Basically whenever the girl plays the box when someone is around water they are murdered by the water. The only clever use of the idea is when someone drowns in a car wash. Otherwise, pretty bland stuff....Rating: 1/5
By this time on Saturday it was time for "family madness" so I introduced my 4 year old to Ghostbusters. This film is a classic and is one of my favorite all time comedies. The jokes still work for me even after so many viewings....Rating: 5/5
Casper's Scare School is an animated series my daughter recently found on Netflix. The series is fun for what it is though I am always looking for this stuff to be more referential to its influences....Rating: 2.5/5
Child's Play is a movie I revisit often. It's a movie from my childhood and my enjoyment of it continues today. The fact that it's paced so much differently than most of the other films in the franchise playing with the audiences expectations of whether Chucky is actually alive and holding off on Chucky's reveal for a good 40 minutes helps a lot to set it apart from not only the sequels but many modern horror films of this type....Rating: 4/5
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