With the smash hit Scream, novice screenwriter Kevin Williamson and veteran horror director Wes Craven revived the moldering corpse of the teen horror picture, both creatively and commercially, by playfully acknowledging the exhausted clichés and then turning them inside out.Scream is a postmodern slasher movie, a horror film that cleverly deconstructs horror films, then reassembles […]
Haloween
Halloween is as pure and undiluted as its title. In the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a teenage baby sitter (Jamie Lee Curtis) tries to survive a Halloween night of relentless terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac (Tony Moran) goes after the town’s hormonally charged youths. Director John Carpenter takes this simple situation and orchestrates […]
Dressed to Kill
Writer-director Brian De Palma maintains a measured yet fevered pitch from start to finish with this bloody thriller, a taut psycho-sexual chiller is a razor-sharp tale of passion, madness and murder. Fashionable Manhattan therapist Dr. Robert Elliott (Caine) faces the most terrifying moment of his life, when a psychotic killer begins attacking the women (Dickinson […]
Single White Female
You can take this 1992 thriller one of two ways: it’s either a highly suspenseful movie about an unfortunate young woman’s psychological breakdown, or it’s a glossy slasher movie starring two of Hollywood’s best young actresses. Or maybe it’s both at the same time. However you look at it, there’s no denying that this is […]
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