The Thing is crap — a really bad script and pedestrian direction that can't be covered by the impressive special effects.

@avclub-4fe0c5d7aa43671f5ec9d876b7dddb35:disqus I think Carpenter's film is more scary but Zombie's is more interesting. Carpenter is fairly close to a hack in my eyes (Halloween is his only really good film; Prince of Darkness and They Live are fun but nothing special), and though Zombie is a carny Tarnatino I give…

With all respect, you're kinda missing my point. "Effective" describes so many films that it's hardly a barometer of anything. You might as well say "I will watch any film."

@avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus Thanks! I will try to check it out next time I'm in town.

Lots of movies are effective — that doesn't mean their effects are worth experiencing or even that they're well made.

"Have you come here to stick your nosy cock inside her head and fuck her brain?"

In Carpenter's version, Michael Myers is just "ee-vil"; that's the actual psychological evaluation provided by Dr. Loomis. In Zombie's version, he's a bullied kid who begins acting out his homicidal rage on pets before attacking humans. This is somewhat more realistic psychological profile.

I don't get the love for Devil's Rejects either.

@avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus Which drive-in is still operating in Indianapolis? I remember seeing Young Frankenstein at a drive-in on, I think, Lafayette Road back in the 1970s.

You have an awfully low bar for "required viewing."

Mia was the first, followed by Olivia, Natalie and then, somehow, Eric. That's four. Unless you for some reason count David's self-sacrifice to take out possessed Eric as the fifth soul, the devil never gets his third.

@avclub-9ed41c6558126fcd498e887c429bc12f:disqus , that was my point — the demon never gets five souls (unless you count the dog), so whatever it was that climbed out of the ground should never have climbed out of the ground. Maybe the best textual answer would be that the water was somehow infected, or Eric was bitten…

1. I wondered that too.

The majority of people who complain that others "over" analyze something are actually guilty of not analyzing it not nearly enough. That said, I agree this movie was not fun. It was closer to the antithesis of fun.

Fuck the motherfucker who finds this graceless gorefest is true to the spirit of the original. Especially fuck him if he thinks that hipster posturing gives him horror street cred.

It is a terrible movie, and the gore was not entertaining. I've seen the Saw films and Turistas; for that matter, I've seen Herschel Gordon Lewis's films as well. Pushing grotesque boundaries to shock the audience isn't new, and it isn't done especially well here (why are David and Eric so incredibly durable? Eric has…

I am one of those who did not like Drag Me to Hell. Well, I didn't not like it, I just didn't think it was particularly interesting. It had none of the inventiveness of Evil Dead or Evil Dead 2, or any of the flair of his Spider-man films. It was more or less a run of the mill EC horror story… fine for what it is, but…

I thought they preserved the graininess well, but it does seem to have lost some of its… seediness? It's just a bit too bright.

I did too, at a party for Showtime's Masters of Horror series. Scrimm was just wandering around, smiling and starting up conversations with people. Elvira Mistress of the Dark, however, more or less hid in the back of the room, ignoring everyone.

FNV also had an annoying tendency to cut the videos off in the middle to go to a commercial break.