Category Archives: horror movie

HALLOWEEN 2 – 1981

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Disgusting cash-in sequel which capitalized on the classic “Halloween” fright flick directed by John Carpenter.  Carpenter is not directing this time but producing, taking a writing credit and providing the music.  Still, Carpenter must take his share of credit for this turd.  The formula stays the same:  Asylum escapee Michael Myers is stalking fresh victims and Jamie Lee Curtis, more or less in that order.  Dr. Loomis, portrayed by Donald Pleasance, pursues Myers.  This time a face off takes place in a hospital where Curtis recovers from the assault she took from Myers in the previous flick.  Curtis is nothing more than a crawling, mute presence here.  Her character shambles around in a perpetual state of shock and then lurches around the hospital trying to find a hiding place from “the boogie man”, Myers.  It all feels rather empty like the hospital.  No characters are developed to care about.  The scumbag hospital attendants who spend a lot of their time cavorting in empty hospital beds and whirlpool tubs are dispatched in abundance.  Myers basically murders everyone in his path.  He utilizes a lot of hospital equipment to accomplish these deeds in “novel” ways.  We are given some small bits of revelatory information to add to the storyline/back story of Myers.  Myers is shot repeatedly but manages to get back on his feet with twice the murderous force as before the bullet bath.  I really stopped caring after awhile.  I’d seen it all before.

GARGOYLES – 1972

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Rousing TV movie full of strange beasties on the loose.  Cornel Wilde investigates stories and sightings involving a hidden race of ancient creatures, the gargoyles,  that emerge during certain periods of history and their time has come again in the 1972 American Southwest.  The gargoyles appear once again determined to exert their dominance over man.  Can they be stopped?  Look past the slightly gawky monster costumes and enjoy the thrill ride!  Scott Glen is here in an early role.

THE NIGHT STALKER – 1972

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Classic tale of an otherworldly killing spree set in modern day Las Vegas.  A down on his luck reporter, Carl Kolchak, stumbles upon a series of murders that lead him to the inevitable conclusion that an actual vampire is loose in a city that never sleeps.  Scary upon first and subsequent viewings.  Creepy, nightmarish performance by veteran actor Barry Atwater as the vampire. Darren McGavin as Carl Kolchak is superb.  This is definitely one of those films that you don’t want to watch at night with the lights out.  Very chilling and produced as a TV movie, to boot!

 

 

 

HALLOWEEN 5 TRAILER (1989)

 

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A sad excuse of a cash in, Halloween 5 is full of screeching teenager and kid victims.  Scares,  interest and originality are lacking.  Michael Myers, the unstoppable bogeyman of the Halloween franchise, lumbers in the shadows and then emerges to massacre the human fodder who pass for characters in this dreck.  Repetitive, noisy, cliched, wretched.  The “creative” team behind this mess were willing to pass off this trash for a quick buck.  Since Michael will never die, expect this shambles of a series to continue on indefinitely.