Horror . Thriller
Halloween (1978)
As lean and efficient a piece of genre filmmaking as you’re going to find, which makes sense since director John Carpenter has often said he wished he had been alive and working as a director in the 1940s when narratively fat-free film noirs were everpresent. There’s obviously a lot I like about this horror classic,
Horror . Thriller
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
A rather (unintentionally?) amusing attempt to remove invincible, hockey-masked serial killer Jason Voorhees from the rural confines of Camp Crystal Lake and place him in a grimy, pre-gentrified New York City. That gimmick alone – the sight of seeing the linebacker-looking horror icon skulking around in Times Square, smashing a new wave punk rocker’s boombox
Horror . Sci-Fi . Thriller
Intersect (2020)
An earnest but amateurish and extremely slow-moving attempt to incorporate hard science in a genre movie framework, as evidenced by the casting of Britsh ethologist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in a voice role. The story has something to do with some smarty-pants scientists at Miskatonic University (notice the rather obvious nod to H.P. Lovecraft)