[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B004UGALGI][/pullquote] It could be said that when you look behind the production of Scream 3, it was doomed from the start. This has, unfortunately been proved true. For one thing, Kevin Williamson, the person who had created and given life to these characters, was … [Read more...]
Review: Scream (1996)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B004UGALGI][/pullquote] The horror genre has had many moods and changes in style over the years from monster movies, to psychological thrillers all the way to the latest torture-porn. For fans of horror, if you watch closely enough, there appears a set of common … [Read more...]
Review: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B0058N2T3K][/pullquote] There are many visually recognisable icons in horror film history. Whether it's Jason from Friday the 13th in his hockey mask, or Michael Myers sporting a lovely whitened William Shatner mask (yes that's really what it is, check it out), these … [Read more...]
Review: Friday the 13th (2009)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B001SAO340][/pullquote] Horror films have a knack or being dismissed as somehow not as good quality as other film genre types. For instance, when was the last horror film that won an Oscar? That is not to say that there are no great horror films. Far from it, they are … [Read more...]
Review: Friday the 13th (1980)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B002AHHOFA][/pullquote] The late 1970s and early 1980s saw a host of ˜slasher' films released into the market. Based on the popularity of the original Halloween, these films helped to solidify the genre in a similar way that Saw and Hostel have done for ˜torture porn' … [Read more...]
Review: Scream 4 (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B0050I7J92][/pullquote] When Wes Craven released the original Scream movie in 1996, it redefined what we know about the horror genre. He took all the conventions and tropes and spun them on their head, introducing characters that knew ˜the rules' of surviving a horror … [Read more...]