tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68812577734592762552024-03-13T21:17:39.331-07:00ERNIE'S Blog YOErniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-24420174949614118302021-02-15T10:09:00.002-08:002021-02-15T10:09:46.416-08:00My Favorite Movies of 2020<p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 16px;">Geekade posted my fav movies of 2020 a few weeks back. In case you missed it, here 'tis.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 16px;">Movies provided audiences a therapeutic distraction from their anxieties during the depression era. While motion pictures are no longer at the center of popular culture, cinema still has the power to invigorate viewers. 2020 has been marked by disturbance and disorder; audiences have turned to scintillating tales of joy and pain for catharsis. Click the link for a list of my favorite pictures of 2020; films I believe capture with great feeling the spirit of the past year.</span></p><p><br /></p><p> <a href="https://geekade.com/geekade-top-ten-favorite-movies-of-2020/">My favorite movies of 2020</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-62474431793252401282020-11-11T08:27:00.005-08:002020-11-11T08:27:49.363-08:00Celebrating 40 Years of Alligator<p> <i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px;">Jaws</i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> instigated a series of “animals on a rampage” movies in the late 70s and early 80s: bears (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px;">Grizzly, </i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1976); whales (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px;">Orca,</i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1977); bees (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px;">The Swarm,</i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1978); bats (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px;">Nightwing, </i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1979). Universal Studios even attempted to recreate the magic (and mayhem) of its deadly great white shark with a murderous automobile in </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px;">The Car</i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (1977).</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Of all the films to drop in on the wave of Spielberg’s benchmark blockbuster, few are as </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">well-plotted and entertaining as </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Alligator.</i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Scripted by John Sayles (who also helmed the terrific nature runs amok flick </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Piranha, 1978</i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">) and inspired by the urban myth that oversized alligators troll the New York sewer system, the film follows Chicago homicide detective David Madison (Robert Forester) and reptile</span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> expert Marisa Kendall (Robin Riker) </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">as they pursue a man-eating gator that’s been terrorizing The Windy City.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Roger Corman disciple Lewis Teague captures the B-movie spirit of his mentor, offering heavy doses of tongue-in-cheek humor and breath-stealing terror in equal measure. From its unambiguous title and primitive score to its campy creature design and well-observed characters, </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Alligator</i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> delivers the low-budget goods.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Click here to read the full review: <a href="https://geekade.com/celebrating-40-years-of-alligator/" target="_blank">Celebrating 40 Years of Alligator</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p>Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-70434628642339235492020-07-30T11:47:00.004-07:002020-07-30T11:47:36.417-07:00Black Characters With Body<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px;">Jordan Peele’s gripping debut </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Get Out</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px;"> forced audiences to consider the relationship between Black viewers and horror films. While Peele’s biting commentary on the Black experience in America was hugely successful both critically and commercially, the fears and anxieties of African Americans have been severely underrepresented by the genre throughout its history. Still, horror cinema has provided a handful of strong, multidimensional Black characters over the years. Click the link to read about a few of them:</span><br />
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<br />Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-56076658793936171312020-06-25T09:41:00.003-07:002020-06-25T09:41:54.559-07:00The Spookily Skillful Handling of Sound in John Carpenter’s “The Fog”<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Every picture tells a story. But the sound <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">sells</em> the story. An effective horror film understands sound and vision are equal partners in getting the message across. Imagine watching the shower scene in <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Psycho</em> without Bernard Herrmann’s unnerving violin screech; or Laurie Strode’s final chase through Michael’s murderground minus John Carpenter’s percussive piano riff. These aural ingredients are as vital and substantial to the film’s effect as the visuals.</div>
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Filmmakers employ sound design to communicate ideas. The process of building and mixing sound enhances a picture’s visual narrative. Even minor or subtle inclusions of sound have the power to stimulate the emotions of viewers. (Jack’s descent into madness in <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Shining</em> is buttressed by an atmospheric sound design—the clicking of the typewriter, the rolling of the tricycle over the wood and carpet, the thud of the tennis ball against the wall.)</div>
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A pioneer of modern horror cinema, director/musician John Carpenter employed the elements of film to produce enthralling works of terror and tension throughout his career. Celebrated for his superb pacing and striking cinematography, Carpenter also managed to put a unique stamp on each film by utilizing exquisite sound design. By applying the right combination of natural sound with music and effects, he was able to evoke terror in audiences, compelling them to substitutionally endure the trials and tribulations of the characters on screen.</div>
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<a href="https://geekade.com/the-spookily-skillful-handling-of-sound-in-john-carpenters-the-fog">The Spookily Skillful Handling of Sound in John Carpenter’s “The Fog”</a></div>
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I adore slasher movies. I am also a big fan of 80s actioners. It doesn’t require much analysis to form connections between the two genres. One slasher/action pairing I find strikingly similar is the sixth installment in the <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Friday the 13<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> </em>series with the Sylvester Stallone disaffected war veteran vehicle, <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">First Blood</em>.</div>
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<br />Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-14290126737491628352020-04-17T05:44:00.002-07:002020-04-17T05:44:21.459-07:00Celebrating 5 Years of ‘The Witch’<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Set in New England circa 1630, the picture opens on a colonial plantation. William (Ralph Ineson) and his family are forced to relocate to a tract of land on the edge of a foreboding forest. When their crops start dying off and their infant son goes missing, they fall apart, leaving them vulnerable to attack by an evil force.</div>
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In honor of Friday the 13th and Pamela Voorhees’s bloodcurdling killing spree, I give you 13 of horror cinema’s most murderous women.</div>
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<br />Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-46252483225494516022019-12-13T12:38:00.001-08:002019-12-19T10:03:58.403-08:00Celebrating 35 years of Friday the 13th the Final Chapter<div>
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Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-7408688861148718062019-11-16T15:59:00.001-08:002019-11-16T16:03:34.147-08:00Celebrating 5 Years of “Starry Eyes”<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Moments later she’s at work, her thoughts and feelings buried alongside her round bottom and tight belly in a pair of leopard-skin yoga pants. The camera places us in the shoes (and behind the icky moustache) of her boss, forcing us to stare at length at her backside as she saunters across the room. Not two minutes into the movie and we’ve already seen Sarah in multiple states of undress. We know little about her other than she is sexy. There is a hurricane of emotions hollering within her, they just scream a little quieter than her gaudy stretch pants.</span></div>
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<a href="https://geekade.com/celebrating-5-years-of-starry-eyes">Celebrating 5 Years of “Starry Eyes”</a><br />
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<br />Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-51388198853389368052019-10-15T09:35:00.000-07:002019-11-16T16:03:55.050-08:00Celebrating Five Years of “Spring”<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead gained universal approval with their 2012 debut, <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Resolution</em>. Serena Whitney of <a href="https://www.dreadcentral.com/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #097700; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Dread Central</a> gave the picture a perfect score, dubbing it a “remarkable achievement” that “provides the breath of fresh air the genre sorely needs.” An intricately constructed examination of the way horror stories are told, the film is witty and amusing, if a bit amateurish.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Really good horror tends to hold a mirror up to society and reflect some ugly part of our existence; they lay bare our hidden fears and anxieties to frightening effect. <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Spring</em> leans on gore and grue to examine the apprehension of its central characters.</span></div>
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<a href="https://geekade.com/celebrating-five-years-of-spring">Celebrating Five Years of Spring</a><br />
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<br />Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-7662167786734161902019-09-23T07:59:00.001-07:002019-09-23T07:59:07.173-07:00Action Films of the 1980s and The Slasher Paradigm<br />
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Body count films of many forms found success in the 1980s. Slasher pictures dominated the horror market, generating major margins of profit on miniscule budgets (Parmount Pictures shuddered with eye-winking embarrassment when releasing the numbers on their senses-assaulting splatter flick, <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Friday the 13</em></span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">th</em><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">). </span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At the same time, major studios were redefining action movies for modern audiences. Hollywood had gone corporate. The social climate of the 1960s and 1970s had passed and was replaced by a more escapist form of entertainment. Instead of willfully challenging the political structure in America, Hollywood aimed to produce event pictures with wide popular appeal. </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Large-scale actioners offered adrenaline-filled thrill rides replete with dangerously exciting inclines and gratuitously violent plunges while echoing the structural framework and narrative tone of the slasher film. While the two genres may seem dissimilar, their themes and essential features bear scrutiny. </span></div>
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<a href="https://geekade.com/action-films-of-the-1980s-and-the-slasher-paradigm">Action Films of the 1980s and The Slasher Paradigm</a>Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-36331047727476638532019-09-09T04:57:00.000-07:002019-09-09T04:57:07.869-07:00Don’t Call It That: Horror’s Peculiar Method of Selecting Titles<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How often have you wasted the night away trying to decide on a movie to watch? I remember spending hours as a kid perusing the shelves of the local mom and pop video store with my buddies in search of the perfect title to bring home. Finally, someone would say, “Here’s one that sounds good!” Nowadays we scroll aimlessly through Netflix. “What should I watch…?”</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Titles can do many things. They can convey themes or tones and provide narrative clues before a single frame of film is played. Mostly, they try to draw viewers in: they compel audiences to see a picture. Selecting the precise set of words to market a movie is a daunting task. What reads as promising to one may come off as less assuring to another. </span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-41594776512794755772019-07-15T12:49:00.001-07:002019-07-15T12:49:15.538-07:00Celebrating Slasher's Coup De Grace<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The first ten minutes of a film establish a tone that plays a role in ensuring the work makes a lasting impression (</span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chrissie Watkins being sucked under water by an unseen predator in <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jaws</em> is forever seared into the minds of horror fans). Good openings produce emotional connections between the audience and the characters in the story. They compel onlookers to substitutionally endure the trials and tribulations of the protagonists on screen. If done well, the first ten minutes of a picture have the power to propel it toward success.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Consequently, the final moments of a movie carry even more weight than those that open the film. Brody and Hooper paddling back to shore after obliterating the great white in <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jaws</em> has given satisfaction to generations of audiences. </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After accompanying the hero through turbulent realms and observing their rises and falls of fortune with breathless rapture, audiences are either rewarded for their time or left feeling disappointed. Even if a movie has all the other essential elements of a good story, the impression it leaves is at the mercy of its ending. </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is especially true of slasher films, most of which employ the same blueprint, the same narrative structure, and a similar cast of characters. Identifying the motivation of the killer, exonerating red herrings, and navigating the handiwork of the murderous madman alongside the resilient final girl are all part of the fun of watching a “dead teenager” movie. The most exhilarating aspect of the experience often comes during the film’s tail end when the psychotic killer gets his comeuppance via the business end of a sharp-edged instrument.</span></div>
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<a href="https://geekade.com/celebrating-slashers-coup-de-grace">Celebrating Slashers Coup-De-Grace</a>Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-81724426349649162902019-06-11T07:19:00.002-07:002019-06-11T07:19:27.134-07:00Celebrating 5 Years of It Follows<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It Follows</em> begins with a sunny day in Michigan, as a college student named Jay (Maika Monroe) floats in her swimming pool. An ant moves over her arm as freely as the water around her. Jay drops her hand below the surface of the pool. The insect is swallowed up by the cool liquid. The ant, nature’s epitome of teamwork, is killed in an instant.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Casual critics of <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It Follows</em> viewed the film as a cautionary tale about the dangers of unprotected sex, but a deeper reading of the picture yields a horrific commentary on the trials of growing up. Jay and her friends are at a transitional period in their lives. The carefree days of their youth are coming to an end as quickly as the life of the ant in the pool. They reminisce about games they played as a kids, their first times experiencing a kiss, their dreams of traveling the world. Adulthood, like the foreboding presence that has been haunting Jay, cannot be escaped. The memories Jay and her friends have of their childhood will last long into their later years, so too will the tribulations of their youth. The habitual badgering and intimidation they suffered, the stress and strain of school will “follow” them forever.</span></div>
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<a href="https://geekade.com/5-years-of-it-follows">https://geekade.com/5-years-of-it-follows</a>Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-63700181384268965212019-05-21T11:30:00.001-07:002019-05-21T11:30:07.390-07:00Celebrating 75 years of The Curse of the Cat PeopleThe Curse of the Cat People is a <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px;">breathtakingly magical fairy tale and I love it. Click below to read my review</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px;">:</span><br />
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<a href="https://geekade.com/celebrating-75-years-of-the-curse-of-the-cat-people">Celebrating 75 years of The Curse of the Cat People</a>Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-13263260436819913842019-05-14T12:29:00.002-07:002019-05-14T12:29:44.362-07:00Celebrating 65 Years of Creature From the Black Lagoon!<br />LOVE ME SOME CREATURE!<br />
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<a href="https://geekade.com/celebrating-65-years-of-creature-from-the-black-lagoon">celebrating-65-years-of-creature-from-the-black-lagoon</a>Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-4919686050414869832019-03-12T12:24:00.000-07:002019-03-12T12:24:06.224-07:00Celebrating 35 Years of Crimes of Passion<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">One of Ken Russell's most misread efforts is also one of my favorites. Click below to see why I love the sleek and bawdy Crimes of Passion so much.</span><br />
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<a href="https://geekade.com/celebrating-35-years-of-crimes-of-passion">Celebrating 35 Years of Crimes of Passion</a>Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-2487899955607811112019-02-10T10:50:00.002-08:002019-02-10T10:54:19.758-08:00My Favorite Flicks of 2018Finally got around to posting my favorite films of 2018 list:<br />
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<a href="http://geekade.com/geekade-top-ten-favorite-movies-of-2018">Rockelman-top-ten-favorite-movies-of-2018</a>Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-73284294852473883362019-01-15T08:04:00.002-08:002019-01-15T08:04:30.413-08:00Celebrating A Nightmare on Elm Street!I wrote about A Nightmare on Elm Street for Geekade to celebrate its upcoming anniversary. Check it out:<br />
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<a href="http://geekade.com/celebrating-35-years-of-a-nightmare-on-elm-street">Celebrating 35 Years of A Nightmare On Elm Street</a>Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-87987350825142161422018-12-08T20:39:00.001-08:002018-12-08T20:39:37.177-08:00Celebrating five years of We Are What We Are! Love the work of Jim Mickle. So happy to have been given the opportunity to write about his socially conscious cannibal flick for Geekade. Check it out:<br />
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<span id="goog_801813810"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_801813811"></span><br /><a href="http://geekade.com/celebrating-five-years-of-we-are-what-we-are">geekade.com/celebrating-five-years-of-we-are-what-we-are</a>Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-80576096619075125032018-11-20T07:43:00.003-08:002018-11-20T07:43:48.492-08:00Celebrating 15 Years of Haute TensionI had the opportunity to write about one of my favorite <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px;">New French Extremity pics for Geekade. Check it out below.</span><br />
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<a href="http://geekade.com/celebrating-15-years-of-haute-tension">celebrating-15-years-of-haute-tension</a>Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-19673717122010270602018-10-31T07:09:00.001-07:002018-10-31T07:09:25.253-07:00Night of the Living DeadOn Halloween we celebrate one of the greatest horror pics ever made:<br />
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<a href="http://geekade.com/celebrating-50-years-of-night-of-the-living-dead">Celebrating 50 Years of Night of the Living Dead</a>Erniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584069178691053528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881257773459276255.post-64562355066216712212018-10-30T18:31:00.002-07:002018-10-30T18:31:47.290-07:0031-days-years-of-halloween-an-alternative-look-part-3Part 3 of my journey through neglected horror pics is up now on Geekade.com. You can access it below:<br />
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