When making a meta-commentary on a genre, is there a line that shouldn’t be crossed? When Wes Craven gave us Scream, with its rule-spouting characters, the self-awareness of genre clichés was somewhat fresh, but now, post-Cabin in the Woods, the subversion of the genre has almost become a cliché in and of itself, and herein…
Tag: horror
Deep Rising (1998) – Review
Blending horror and comedy has always been a tricky thing – too often the comedy can undercut the horror – but in 1998, writer/director Stephen Sommers released Deep Rising, which was not only a horror/comedy but an action movie as well. Added to the mix was a monster that would be 95% CGI – at…
Overlord (2018) – Review
Genre mash-ups can be a lot of fun, and when it’s horror with another genre, the results can be quite surprising – horror-comedy being one of the more prevalent of these – but one horror combo that doesn’t get a lot of love is the horror/war movie mash-up, which is why Overlord is such a…
Lake Placid: Legacy (2018) – Review
If you can make a six-film franchise out of the comedy classic Tremors – a movie about burrowing monsters terrorizing a small town in Nevada – then why can’t a series about giant man-eating crocodiles terrorizing people in Maine work, too? One could, of course, argue the point that neither Tremors nor the original Lake…
Hell Night (1981) – Review
The Golden Age of the slasher film ran from 1968 to 1974 (dominated by directors like John Carpenter and Wes Craven), and smack dab in the middle of this era was a little gem called Hell Night. Taking a break from such “seminal” works as Wild Horse Hank and Roller Boogie, Linda Blair returned to…