Wes Craven’s 1984 horror film is a better movie than it is generally credited for being. Forget the tawdry sequels; this highly original, almost surrealist work stars Robert Englund as a mutilated monster who kills teenagers during their dreams.Craven takes the Hitchcockian step of layering in psychological explanations for the terror and then proving them […]
Scream
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 […]
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