So the Black Christmas remake?
Saw it. Total horror-kitsch.
We are talking ridiculously exaggerated music cues and acting, quirky camera angles and cut-tos, gorey cartoon sound effects to complement the overtly gratuitous enough-with-the-eyeballs-already murder scenes–SQUIRT, SPLAT, SQUISH!–and one actress made up to look like some kinda Bette Davis/Joan Crawford hybrid. It doesn’t take itself seriously in the slightest, pokes fun at the trops of the genre and attempts to deliver something gross and fun. I’d go so far as to say the cast and crew probably thought they were a part of something Evil Dead fresh, if not Evil Dead stale, and even that had to be okay because, hey, Evil Dead!
If you will, a horror-comedy.
Too bad it’s not remotely clever enough to be either, let alone both.
RUINED.
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publication date
Thursday February 15th, 2007 @ 3:46am
133 words, 10 sentencesmeta stuff
categories: movies
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I think when they remake horror films they usually miss the mark. Remakes in general probably do but I think with horror they really do. Plus it seems like these days all horror seems to be remakes or slightly based upon stories. You watch more than I do but do you really see that much original stuff coming out these days of the horror genre?
There’s definitely nothing really fresh with what’s coming out of the horror genre lately, which is unfortunate since even knowing that doesn’t preventing me from watching them and then getting annoyed they’re so bereft of quality later!!