Crystal Lake Countdown: Looking Back on ‘Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter’
As you probably guessed was the case, Friday the 13th Part III (1982) was not, in fact, the last of the Friday the 13th movies. The expectation that the …
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Crystal Lake Countdown: Looking Back on ‘Friday the 13th Part III’
As is the often the case with once-successful franchises, all good things must come to an end. Although Part 2 (1981) still managed to make an exorbitant profit at …
If You Liked ‘Friday the 13th,’ Then You’ll Love ‘Sleepaway Camp’
As I’m watching my way through the Friday the 13th movies in preparation of this week’s own Friday the 13th, one of the aspects of the series that I …
Crystal Lake Countdown: Looking Back on ‘Friday the 13th Part 2’
Horror movies in general, and slasher movies in particular, are often plagued by innumerable sequels that offering increasingly diminishing returns after the relative high water mark of the first …
Purge and Purify: Experiencing ‘The First Purge’
After The Purge: Election Year (2016), it was unclear exactly where, if anywhere, the franchise could go. Unusual for a low-budget horror movie franchise, these movies were genuine blockbuster …
Crystal Lake Countdown: Looking Back on ‘Friday the 13th‘
There have been few franchises of any genre as popular, prolific or iconic as Friday the 13th. What began as a quickly-produced cash-in on the then-nascent slasher subgenre started …
America’s Got Talent: Auditions End. Heidi Reveals Golden Buzzer Act.
It’s the final night of auditions on this week’s episode of America’s Got Talent. Which acts will be lucky enough to get three or four “yeses” from the judges? …
Purge and Purify: Looking Back on ‘The Purge: Election Year’
Going from The Purge (2013) to Anarchy (2014) was perhaps the biggest leap forward in quality of any franchise ever, although The Road Warrior (1981)’s step forward from Mad …
‘Ant-Man and the Wasp:’ A Phase 1 Movie in Marvel’s Phase 3
Regardless of anything else, good or bad, that it had going for it, Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) was always going to have the unenviable task of following up …
Purge and Purify: Looking Back on ‘The Purge: Anarchy’
Although the first Purge movie (not to be confused by the latest franchise installment, The First Purge (2018)) was ultimately a bad movie with a great premise, based on …
