Miscellaneous Summer Horror Films
Lost Boys 1987
Second time watching this, I enjoyed it even more. I didn’t watch this when I was a kid, I think I was a teenager the first time. Someone said that this movie is like theres 4 different movies in one. Corey Heim is in a Goonies movie, the teenager is in a coming of age film, the mom is in a romcom, and the father is in a Rodney Dangerfield old man getting laid comedy. I think that holds true. The teenage son Michael had the best story in the film. The Cry Little Sister song that they played throughout the movie was a banger. I had to run that song back a few times a week since I’ve seen the movie. Joel Schumacher did a great job directing this movie. If only we got this Schumacher to do Batman. I know they’re doing a remake and it's going to be very hard to top this one. I think it's doable if they work at making the other 3 stories in the film beside Micheal’s better. They also can’t match how 80s this movie is.
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Near Dark 1987
After Lost Boys I was in the mood for more vampire movies so I watched this. Near Dark is a great movie to watch if you have never seen it. The movie makes it suck to be a vampire. Bill Paxton plays his part in this movie very well.
I think they could remake this film. This might be sacrilegious to a lot of people but I love the concept in this film. Besides being a vampire movie, I think this movie is about love in different stages in a person’s life. Homer the child vampire is about adolescents or young love, Caleb is about teenage love, Bill Patxon’s character is the cynical bachelor that is looking for fun over love, and the older vampires are the old married couple. I think that's a story that is timeless and can be told again in a more fleshed out way. I don’t know how but I feel like they can fix the ending. I don’t think Mae wanted to be cured from being a vampire and didn’t want to spend a life with the boy she had one good night with. I think that is very relatable to a lot of people. Just because you have a good time with someone else and like being with them before knowing them all that well. I have a problem with how Mae’s vampirism is cured. It doesn’t really make sense to me but I go with it because I liked the film. I also think its comical how these guys have been vampires for so long and they are the worst vampires about dodging daylight, the only thing that can kill them. Overall I’d say Kathryn Bigelow did a great job with the film early in her career before she became an Academy Award winning director.
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Devils Rejects 2005
Near Dark reminded me of this movie. Surprise Suprise ,this is my favorite Rob Zombie movie that I’ve seen. Like Near Dark you follow a band of despicable characters as they travel throughout the South West USA. Also like Near Dark the most malicious member is also the most charismatic, in this movie its Sid Haig as Captain Spaulding. On this viewing I think I noticed that Baby isn’t really as ruthless as her family and is trying to be bad. I don’t know if anyone else feels that way. Ken Foree was good in his role. If there was no IMDB I wouldn’t think this is the same guy that used to get hassled by Keenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell.
I never realized how hyper sexual this movie was. Last time I rewatched this movie was with a girl and she threw me the ass crazy when this movie was on
I wanted to watch another movie like this one and I kept seeing lists for Sexflix, XXX Adult Films, and etc.
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Wild Things 1998
Not really a horror film but I wanted to watch some kind of sexual thriller. I also wanted to watch a movie with Neve Campbell since I saw her in Twisted Metal and I didn’t want to watch the Scream franchise again. The twists and turns in this movie make it a fun ride. Once theres a big reveal the movie turns surreal and feels like a Hitchcock thriller. I forgot what the exact twists were so I wanted to watch it again. I completely forgot BIll Murry was in the movie.
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Cruel Intentions 1999
I liked Wild Things so much that I watched this movie. I don’t think it is as fun as Wild Things but still fun. I wasn’t really a fan of Ryan Phillipe in this but some people say he was the best part of the movie. My favorite part in this movie was Sarah Michelle Gellar. I never saw her play a bad person in anything I ever watched her in and she was fun as her character. While not a horror movie I can see how this movie took inspiration from Kevin Williamson’s works in this era.
The breh Sean Patrick Thomas was PAWGing hard in his movies before Barbershop
Watchable
I Know What You Did Last Summer 1997
I think this movie goes together well with watching Cruel Intentions. I haven’t seen this for awhile and forgot how much fun it is. I got some parts of the story wrong in my head because I watched Scary Movie not too long ago. The chase scene with Sarah Michelle Gellar is one of the best chase scenes I’ve ever seen. I feel like this is underrated because Scream is so good.
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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer 1998
I didn’t remember this movie at all besides the butter knife joke. You also get some crazy Jeffery Combs in this movie. I didn't enjoy the setting of a secluded Caribbean hotel as much as I did the small fishing town in the 1st movie. The fisherman rigging a Karaoke machine is comical
The most comical point though was the twist with Will Benson, get it BENSON BEN’s SON
I didn’t know Brandy had all that ass
After Return to Sleepaway Camp I didn’t even try to finish the franchise with the third movie. I heard that was crap and I’m staying away
Skippable/Watchable