That movie is exhibit A why I hate people who say things like "horror movies that aren't scary are like comedies that aren't funny: USELESS" Mulholland Dr and Pan's Labyrinth are B and C.

I watched it recently, and it holds up pretty well just due to how incredibly nihilistic it is. That ending is impossible to laugh off.

The way they played the dragon noise from Warcraft 2 every time the Babadook showed up made me just laugh at it. The scariest part of that film was the idea of having a kid like that.

Blair Witch Project had zero effect on me, but I saw it in the last couple years, after I'd already seen several of its found footage successors (ex, the aforementioned [REC]. I'm unclear what people are usually talking about when they mention disturbing imagery being scary in The Exorcist. The flashes of demon…

Who's scared by ANY horror movies these days? Everyone's been so desensitized that the only way jump scares can work anymore is if they're like Sinister and do the jack-in-the-box style scares along with unbelievably loud music/sound effect hits so it becomes physically painful. Anything from pre-2000 is going to…

What's so bad about Keanu? The only movie I have seen where he actually brings it down is Bram Stoker's Dracula, where he was unbelievably miscast. He also should never be in anything like Sweet November, but he's perfect in John Wick. Far better than in the Matrix movies.

That's probably half sarcasm. A ton of people love that movie. I think it has great "mythology" and a very small amount of the usual action movie bullshit, and I love Keanu in it. It's easily one of my favorite action movies of the last 10 years (not that that's a really hard thing to do…). It's obviously not Mad…

Both DVDs (1998 and 2013 releases) are uncut. It's the US blu-ray that's missing 5 minutes. If you're an HD fiend, you have to get the German release.

Yeah, I can't even conceive of thinking Nico was the best when Debbie Harry is out there. Let alone the other tons of them. Stevie Nicks is another really obvious one, or Ann Wilson, or any number of them if you move out of the extreme mainstream (ex, Anneke Van Giersbergen).

That's surprising. I wonder if it was a similar deal to another Corman picture of the time, "Humanoids from the Deep," where a woman made it and then Corman got someone else to add all the rapes and nudity to it after the fact, and then the director disowned it. (not that SHM contained any of the former that I can…

This is a movie that could really benefit from someone digging up all the censored footage and reinstituting it (ala My Bloody Valentine). The MPAA-enforced cuts are often pretty jarring.

When I saw the title of the article, I was sure it was going to be about Black Christmas. This is an incredibly arbitrary one to point to.

That is a good one. The ending is one of the most shocking things I had ever seen when I was a kid. The movie is so silly up until the last act, too.

There aren't virtually guaranteed gratuitous shots of the guys undressing and hanging out topless. Otherwise, I mostly agree.

The other movies weren't doing it intentionally. And the difference in characterization is pretty huge. I noticed it immediately without having heard about it being "feminist" going in. Compare it to garbage like "Sorority House Massacre" and the difference is shocking.

It's too bad the two non-theatrical cuts are in SD. There's an Italian one coming out soon with the European cut fully restored which will look the best of any existing blu-ray, but the guy sitting on the rights/negatives to the theatrical and "director's" versions cut won't let anyone have them for less than a…

I think some people DO get personally hurt by a gigantic flood of tweets directed right at them about how they're the worst and should be banned from society or whatever. Not saying she did, because she probably sees worse on a daily basis, and at least she doesn't have an employer to direct tweets to trying to get…

I agree with you, but a lot of people think that stuff is all on-the-nose and falls totally flat, and that thus the movie doesn't really suffer for having it removed.

The way the music turns into a total frenzy in the finale alone makes it more than worthy of being the climax. That film has seriously the best score ever to grace a horror movie. A lot of it is seriously unsettling even when listened to apart from the film.

The original When a Stranger Calls, kinda. The first 20 minutes was intended as a short, and that segment is still very effective today. Then there's about an hour of pointless meandering with a cop and a menaced woman (both introduced at this point, making it feel totally disconnected), and finally a half-assed…