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100 Scariest Movie Moments: #95 Jurassic Park

It's been over a week since I re-watched Jurassic Park, and I've spent much time since then trying to figure out what to say about the film horror-wise. What strikes me about the movie though is not its horror value, but the fact that it shows how incredibly lazy most blockbusters are in terms of writing, effects, and acting. Because in defiance of the usual low standards, this was a movie that had real effort put into it.There's a real build-up to the action, and that build-up never once feels like padding. All of the actors seem to actually care about the project. Even the children, usu

Wednesday Review: The Vatican Tapes

This movie is terrible. It appears that the recent streak of good horror movies Hollywood's been producing has finally come to an end, and we've gotten one of the biggest stinkers I've seen in quite some time. It doesn't even feel professionally made.I imagine this is the kind of film you'd get if Tommy Wiseau directed a movie, while working with a script written by someone else. The story mostly makes sense, but the scenes lack build-up, and often seem to begin or end with no rhyme or reason. I suspect at some point this was supposed to be a Found Footage movie, because we periodically j

100 Scariest Movie Moments: #96 The Birds

I can't help but wonder if anyone with any knowledge of cinema has ever watched The Birds without comparing it to Psycho. While the movie does seem to remain in the public consciousness, at least enough to be sporadically parodied, it also had the shit luck of being made by one of the greatest filmmakers of the twentieth century three years after he'd completed his magnum opus. It also doesn't help that the Magnum Opus was practically put together with barbed wire and spit, as the studio attempted to punish Hitchcock for not making the movie they wanted him to make by cutting his budget. T

100 Scariest Movie Moments: #97 Cat People

I'm less than impressed with this film. I feel it’s a good idea for a movie, but there comes a point at which a horror film becomes too subtle. Parts of Cat Peoplefeels more like a discussion of a horror film the characters saw earlier that evening than an actual horror film in itself.The basic premise is that a young Serbian immigrant named Irena (Simone Simon) believes that if she falls in love she'll turn into a panther and kill her lover, and she's just gotten married. From there on we establish that animals are afraid of her. She feels an attraction to a panther in the zoo, to whom s

100 Scariest Movie Moments: #98 Zombie

In reviewing this movie, I choose to use the name from the original list, “Zombie.” This movie was originally released as a cash-in sequel to Dawn of the Dead, called “Zombi” in Italy, under the title “Zombi 2.” Since there was no “Zombi 1,” in US or UK markets it was rebranded as “Zombie” in the US and “Zombie Flesh Eaters” in the UK. Although the sequels were still released as “Zombie 3” and “Zombie 4,” which I'm sure back in the days before the internet left many a film buff searching desperately for “Zombie 2.” The movie was also shot in both English and Italian, simply because they h

100 Scariest Movie Moments: #99 Creepshow

There are certain ideas that seem to be recycled every so often, which everyone is expected to treat as if they're incredibly original. I don't simply mean “comic book movies.” I mean things as specific as “a tribute to EC Comics horror stories. Just to name the movies I know of that used this formula: Vault of Horror, Tales from the Crypt (3 or 4 films, depending on how you count them, and two TV shows), Creepshow (3 films, two with the original creators), Tales from the Dark Side: The Movie(the unofficial Creepshow 3), and Trick 'R Treat. Sadly, in my view, the best by far is Trick 'R T

Wednesday Review: The Gallows

My first Wednesday, and my first Wednesday Review(wow, I'm creative with that title). Why Wednesday? Halfway between the other two reviews for the week, so why not? Since Wednesday Reviews will be films still in theaters I'll try to give less spoilers, and I won't break my neck trying to identify every actor. I've only seen these films once, and the wikipedia entries are likely incomplete, so I'd probably get some actors wrong otherwise..I feel like the Found Footage genre is one of the most misused in cinema today. This is sad, because the style has so much potential. It's as if the fi

100 Scariest Movie Moments: #100 28 Days Later

The plot of 28 Days Later: A man named Jim, played by Cillian Murphy wakes up to find England has been overrun by zombies. These aren't the traditional zombies, though. They're infected with the so-called “Rage Virus,” which makes them easier to kill (they're alive, anything that will kill a human will kill them), but at the same time, allows them to be fast, strong, and highly aggressiveRe-watching this movie, I found it interesting that the scariest scene is one that was not even highlighted in the 100 Scariest Movie Moments special. It was the opening scene in which a group of animal ri

Hello, Blogger!

Ah, my introductory post. This is an awkward one. On the one hand, no one has had time to find me yet, and I have my doubts that if people ever do find me anyone will bother to look back and find this post. On the other hand, do I really want to just dive right in without explaining who I am?I decided a while ago that, unless this blog takes off in a major way, I want to be anonymous. So, I'm just Serpenthrope. You can call me Mr. Thrope, if you so desire. Or Serpy. Or whatever shortening you find most appropriate.I'd like to say that I was raised on horror films, but sadly I wasn't.

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