Review: John Carpenter’s The Ward

There is only so much you can say about a used-to-be-great director before you finally give up. John Carpenter was one of those guys for me. I’d say to my friends, “Who cares if he made The Village of the Damned or Ghosts of Mars… this dude made The Thing (1982), Halloween, and Big Trouble in Little China!” But that didn’t matter after a while. There is only so much you could say about a director who hasn’t made a decent film in quite some time (1995‘s In the Mouth of Madness might be his last worthy effort).

Review: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

I am going to start off this entry with a bold statement that will sure to attract the attention of cinema snobs all over – horror films simply don’t exist anymore. You can argue the finer points of some lesser-known foreign masterpiece all you want. But deep down in your heart, you know you weren’t actually scared when you watched [Rec] or Martyrs. Not like you were when you saw Jaws for the first time. No matter how much we love to watch teenagers (or anyone really) get destroyed on screen, there hasn’t been a film in a while that really connects us with the characters to have us even care in the first place.

When good reviews happen to bad people…

Or is it the other way around? Regardless, I noticed over at Bloggy Award that they were kind enough to give me, Pictures of Doom, a pretty positive write-up. I feel so glamorous now. And with this review could come more readers, right?

My favorite quote in the entire piece is, “Some of the topics may not be deemed proper by some people but hey, the blog has its own target readers who can appreciate the topics.” They gave me a perfect 10 in the Reading Enjoyment section of the review. Yeah, that’s right. You know you enjoy it. I’ll be back with more pictures tomorrow.