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Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
Fringe Discussion: “Of Human Action”
Shades of the Manchurian Candidate. We’ve clearly returned to the story arc, as kidnapping and mind-control lead back to Massive Dynamic.
Heroes Review: “Shadowboxing”
Emma and Rebecca expose their pasts, Sylar and Parkman engage in a battle of wits, Bennett does what the script tells him to do, and Gretchen does the one thing most sane people would do in her situation.
Fringe Discussion: “Earthling”
Fringe returns, with a creepy if uneven episode involving a shadowy figure who makes ashes of his victims.
Heroes Discussion: “Once Upon A Time in Texas”
With rumours aswirl that Heroes will not have another season, the show takes us back to its intriguing, ratings-scoring early episodes with a new installment rife with time-travel paradoxes and more than a little reminiscent of Back to the Future II.
Halloween Review: Paranormal Activity
This film has been creeping around in variant forms since 2007, and recently received its big-screen release. Some consider it the scariest movie of all time. It has also just become the most profitable, thanks to its very small budget and terrific gross. I found that it fell short of the hype, but it does provide a disturbing experience and raises some uncomfortable thoughts about how well we know the people and places closest to us.
Audience members who grew nauseous during Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project will be relieved to hear that this film features far less shaky-cam. Someone finally realized that, just because a character captures your movie on camcorder, that character doesn’t have to suffer from epilepsy or palsy.
Heroes Review: “Strange Attractors”
“Do we have to be invisible?”
–Gretchen.
Review: DC Universe Halloween Special ’09
Realizing that, despite their mediocrity, the DC Universe Holiday Specials have sold well, the company assembled a Halloween Special. It features some impressive art but very little in the way of worthwhile storytelling.
Halloween Review: The Curse of Frankenstein
Hammer Studios had dabbled in fear before, but their first colour monster movie, made in 1957, inaugurated the age of Hammer Horror. From the late 50s to the early 70s they revisited the territory carved out by Universal Studios, adding lavish colors, blood, gore, and sex in increasing amounts, linking the old, elegant horror classics with more visceral films of recent vintage.1
You might also click through to our revised Halloween Countdown, which has added some new Paranormal Activity for the Big Night next Saturday.
Halloween Review: Horror of Dracula
“There is an old neglected graveyard about three miles from here.”
Hammer’s second colour horror entry features Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing again, in a film crafted by the same writer and director as The Curse of Frankenstein. This adaptation of Stoker’s novel emphasizes its sexual themes and forever changed the nature of onscreen vamps.