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I like Curse. Fiona Dourif is a cool lead. Pity about Father Frank though, that had to hurt.
Chucky doesn't look too good in the film. They improved his design for Cult, and based on what I've seen of the new series, he looks even better there. I think they used CGI.
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That left me distinctly lukewarm. Why is it so hard to get Resident Evil right?
Sidney is a fundamental part of what Scream is, I feel. Her story is the series.
I think it's about the next generation now which they set up in Scream 5, though Neve's absence will likely effect the box office.
I consider the first film the scariest, and New Nightmare the second scariest. 2 is not bad, but some silly scenes reduce the scariness.
Freddy's Revenge is an allegorical film, more than any of the others. Taking lessons from the body horror of Cronenberg, the film uses Freddy as the internalized fear of a teen exploring his sexuality. While Sholder initially denied most of this, the Never Sleep Again documentary actually more or less confirms that Freddy's Revenge is a coming-out nightmare. The gay angst is all over the place; it's text, not subtext. The road to an uncloseted life for Jesse is bumpy and presents frightening obstacles which he will have to navigate before all can be well. Freddy is the force that holds him back, that weakens him, that punishes him for being with a girl (Lisa), but also for being with a boy (Grady.) Freddy confuses him and messes with his mind; he channels Jesse's frustrations and repressed desires into anger and aggression. In many ways, Freddy's Revenge can be seen as the story of a kid who seeks help and confirmation, but can't find it anywhere. Case in point: the film never even once talks about being gay. We can see it, everyone knows it, but it remains taboo. Everyone wants to help Jesse and be his friend, but no one addresses the actual issue. As a result, we're dealing with a tormented youth inside of whom dark thoughts are brewing. Who really wrecked the party? Was it Freddy? Not very likely since Freddy operates in the dream world. Was it Jesse then? Perhaps it was. And how does Jesse finally beat his inner Freddy? He needs Lisa to acknowledge that she loves him, i.e. that she loves what he is. He can only push Freddy out by accepting himself.
In many ways, Freddy's Revenge was ahead of its time, though not intentionally. I'm sure that such a reading of the film was not what anyone had in mind in the mid-'80s for the sequel to a successful slasher flick. But looking at the film today, it practically begs to be seen as a coming-out fable. And I have come to appreciate the film so much more since reading it as such. At that level, yes, I'd say it's definitely one of the scarier films in the series. The nightmare isn't Freddy in this one; the nightmare is the teenager's sexual awakenings and his attempts at coping with all the unknowns and fears that come with it. This turns the film into the "special" one in the series, bending the Krueger rules a bit to tell a different story. Dream Warriors will finally pin the rules down and omit most of what Freddy's Revenge allowed, like Freddy popping in and out of our world, perhaps the only twist in the original film that I regret. (It was used as a Deus-Ex-Machina and would continue to plague other films in the series as a cheap tool for beating Freddy.) But Freddy's Revenge blurs the boundaries between dreamscapes and reality more than any other film, another argument for the allegorical reading. Perhaps this is the Freddy film without Freddy. Perhaps Freddy is merely a figment of Jesse's imagination. I love to contemplate what the film means; I also think that this is the one that could easily be remade for modern audiences.
My favourite, by far, is the first Frankenstein movie.
I'm not a big fan of the Universal Mummy films, to be honest. I prefer the Hammer collection myself. The first film is still perfectly passable, but its sequels are dull and repetitive.
The Invisible Man is great! I'm also a big fan of the Black Lagoons.
Frankenstein and Bride are both excellent, in my opinion.
Dracula is my other favourite.
Dracula is awesome. Lugosi brought his A game and Von Sloan is such a delight! If it weren't for Cushing, the latter would be my favourite Van Helsing.
The Nosferatu remake is very palatable indeed. Strangely upsetting yet deliciously mystifying little film.
As for whether it's the scariest of the lot, it does have some chilling effects and the whole school bus falling into the earth sequence feels pretty apocalyptic. I'd have to do a rewatch of the series to compare them all though, and I still haven't seen 5 or 6...by choice.
While I do get some enjoyment out of the Mummy films (I think the original with Karloff, Hand, and Ghost are the best), they are overall the weakest of Universal's.
For personal preference, counting the originals and sequels, I might go:
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Frankenstein
Invisible Man
Wolf Man
Dracula
Mummy
Trying to be more objective about it, I'd have to flip Creature and Frankenstein though.
That is unbelievably cool your town is doing that event. Too bad you can't get into the '22 screening or Herzog's, but Shadow of the Vampire is a fantastic film too. Such a good performance by Dafoe. You'll have to let us know how it goes!
I never tire of the Universal or Hammer horrors and still have the same enthusiasm for those films now I did as a kid. I've probably watched the 1931 DRACULA easily as many times as I've seen most of the Bonds.