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Tag Archives: Wes Craven
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen this but it somehow seemed a lot cheaper and rougher than I remember this time around. Still, it’s a terrific course-correct that gets the series on sure footing after the muddled … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Rewatch
Tagged 1987, Chuck Russell, Craig Wasson, Heather Langenkemp, Patricia Arquette, Robert Englund, Wes Craven
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Shocker (1989)
Shocker was a staple of my VHS collection in the good old days and, as a Craven nut, it’s a strange movie I’ve always been very fond of. This was Craven’s hard swing for some franchise cash after New Line took … Continue reading
Posted in Movies Watched In 2016, Reviews, Rewatch
Tagged Mitch Pileggi, Peter Berg, Shocker, Wes Craven
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Cursed (2005)
Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven re-team to pepper some Scream magic onto the werewolf genre…and fail. That being said, there’s a lot I enjoyed in this dumb old movie. Christina Ricci is perfectly cast. She is so feline and otherworldly that the whole experience … Continue reading
Scream 3 (2000)
This was always my favourite of the Scream trilogy when I was a kid. Probably due to the fact that all the “buzz” elements are really brought into the foreground and dialled up to eleven. The self-referentiality is heightened to such a … Continue reading
Scream 2 (1997)
Like Scream, this is a film I’ve watched to death over the years. But unlike Screamit doesn’t quite hold up as well. The opening sequence in the cinema is a fucking all-timer. It’s Craven firing on all cylinders and is inventive, surprising and upsetting … Continue reading
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