Just like Peter Jackson, Spider-Man director Sam Raimi proved his ability to make exciting cinema on a low budget with his first film The Evil Dead. He then topped himself with Evil Dead II, which is more like a remake done Three Stooges-style. Our hero is Ash (Bruce Campbell) who takes his girlfriend to a [...]
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Halloween Pick # 5 | “The Hitcher” (1986)
This is one tight little thriller. The story involves a young man named Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) who meets a serial killer (Rutger Hauer) and does the one thing no other victim has done before. He escapes. With that he wins the grand prize — the honor of being the one who gets to [...]
Halloween Pick # 7 | “Manhunter”
Manhunter originally did poorly in theatres and, my guess is, it’s because the poster art was terrible. The film has since gained a more appreciative audience on video, as well as curiosity for it being the first film to introduce the character of Hannibal Lector. To me Brian Cox‘s quiet portrayal of Lector, trapped in [...]
Halloween Pick # 9 | “The Shining”
Like all of Stanley Kubrick‘s films, The Shining gets better with age and repeated viewings. Despite the popular perception that Kubrick was fiercely independent, and a Hollywood outsider (he had made England his home since the 1960s) he really had a warm relationship with Warner Brothers. After 2001: A Space Odyssey they signed a unique [...]