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Horror film round up
Cabin Fever is a really solid little horror movie. Very good. If you liked "scream" or "I know what you did last summer," you will hate it. If you miss the days when horror movies actually tried to horrify and frighten you, go but do not order popcorn. The guy behind me rained popcorn down on my head when jumping several times.
Jeepers Creepers 2 was OK. It hung together better than the first one, but lost whatever the spark was in JC1 that caught my interest. It was much more homogenized, and it lacked any edge to make it at all disturbing/frightening. But, it did have something resembling a coherent plot, which is more than you can honestly say for the first one. And the classical/general knowledge allusions were handled deftly - I was reasonably impressed that they used those more than the in-crowd-horror references that lard so much of the crap these days.
Also, I saw the original Phantasm again. Now, the whole movie (whole franchise) makes not a lick of sense, but, damn, it is a really good little horror movie. It is really beautiful. I have particularly nice things to say about the lighting design. Someone put that movie together with real care and love. (And atrocious acting, but whatever.) One pity: SciFi edits out enough gore that some of the scenes become incoherent.
I anticipate the opening of (yet another) remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre with loathing and trepidation. I am really afraid of how badly they might fuck it up.
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