Happy Halloween! Reading Allen's Top Ten Horror Movies, I realized that we all did something similar to this last year, before Allen joined the team and back when we had the services of some other great, but currently AWOL reviewers:
Aaron: Saw Bunny Lake is Missing and Scarecrows based solely on your recommendation, and I really liked them both. Now I really want to see Hour of the Wolf, Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Jacob's Ladder.
Bree and Nilay: The first half of IT is so well made and horrifying, yet the second half (namely the last 20 min) did just enough damage to ruin nearly the whole experience for me. The Shining is everything a horror movie shouldn't be: epic running time, A-list cast, big name director, stretched out scenes, and a body count of one. Against all odds it TOTALLY works. Oh and Nilay don't hate me for this, but Pretty Woman gave me more nightmares than The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Not that TCM isn't scary, it is. But a Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, and Jason Alexander combination is about as painful as being hung on a meat-hook.
John: I loved the way some of your picks expanded to certain director's 'other' works, as opposed to the obvious one's they are most remembered for: Craven, Lynch, and Cronenberg. The Buffalo Bill joke was excellent. I'd f*ck Levine HARD!
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Aaron: Saw Bunny Lake is Missing and Scarecrows based solely on your recommendation, and I really liked them both. Now I really want to see Hour of the Wolf, Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Jacob's Ladder.
Bree and Nilay: The first half of IT is so well made and horrifying, yet the second half (namely the last 20 min) did just enough damage to ruin nearly the whole experience for me. The Shining is everything a horror movie shouldn't be: epic running time, A-list cast, big name director, stretched out scenes, and a body count of one. Against all odds it TOTALLY works. Oh and Nilay don't hate me for this, but Pretty Woman gave me more nightmares than The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Not that TCM isn't scary, it is. But a Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, and Jason Alexander combination is about as painful as being hung on a meat-hook.
John: I loved the way some of your picks expanded to certain director's 'other' works, as opposed to the obvious one's they are most remembered for: Craven, Lynch, and Cronenberg. The Buffalo Bill joke was excellent. I'd f*ck Levine HARD!
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