It's been a few years since I last watched "Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, and after a somewhat stagnant 3rd entry in the series, I have to reiterate what many people say, that this is one of the best in the series. It corrects a lot of the faults with the previous entry (namely abrasive, unsympathetic characters and odd narrative choices) while basically re-affirming what the good elements are in kinda a rote series of samey films, mainly that…
"What's a 709?"
"It means people have died."
Runaway is an unremarkable 1980's cop action buddy movie with a fun gimmick: it's the near future—so near that it looks EXACTLY like 1984 in every way, from Tom Selleck's shop teacher glasses to the boxy sedans the futurecops drive. Robots have taken all the blue collar jobs, from agriculture to construction to domestic, and sometimes they go haywire. A special division of the LAPD is set aside to deal with these…
Longlegs is not of the quality I expected, considering the pre-release hype. It is not the quality I was expecting from watching the evocative and effective trailer. Longlegs is not as scary as I was led to believe, nor is the story particularly well-told. Longlegs is not a good movie. Let's talk about some good things about it, first:
Longlegs has a number of shot set ups and musical stings and careful edits that speak to the filmmaker's strengths in…
I mean, the premise here is that a bulldozer is possessed by a meteorite and then wants to kill. Thus: Kill-dozer.
High concept! It's Sci-Fi, because meteor, it's supernatural because of possession, it's horror because people get killed? It's
b o r i n g
because so little happens.
