Directed by John Schlesinger A happy young couple buys up a three-unit San Francisco apartment, with just barely enough capital to get by, but has the misfortune of bringing in chaos incarnate, a man named Carter Hayes (Michael Keaton). Hayes is something of a sociopath whose methods happen to orbit real estate. He could very … Continue reading Pacific Heights (1990)
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Silent Rage (1982)
Directed by Michael Miller Yeah so Silent Rage is seriously indebted to John Carpenter's Halloween (1978). In some ways it feels like a straight ripoff, complete with the unkillable psychopath, the obsessive but morally compromised therapist who tracks him and first person voyeuristic perspective. But then you add in Chuck Norris to all of that. After a … Continue reading Silent Rage (1982)
Halloween (2018)
Directed by David Gordon Green Halloween turns Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) into a hunter on the 40th anniversary of the events of the original Halloween. She barricades herself in a cabin fortress somewhere in the woods, prepared for the day Michael Myers would come back for her. Whether she fears it or is excited … Continue reading Halloween (2018)
Halloween (1978)
Directed by John Carpenter The term "serial killer" didn't exist when Halloween first came out. So yeah, there had never really been anything quite like Michael Myers before he showed up. There had been ghosts and ghouls, zombies and aliens, even the perhaps slightly more human antagonists of the occult (Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist) but there had … Continue reading Halloween (1978)
