So this is where we are.

And the corpse in the back moaned everyone attack and it turned into a ballroom…

Don't you mean your zombie grandma?

For some reason I have a craving for Rollos now.

It's a smile show. It's full of actors who are sort of charming playing characters who are stupid in sort of charming ways doing things that are usually ridiculous but in pretty charming ways.

These things are not always mutually exclusive.

Yeah, to me Richard Kiel's Jaws was perhaps the greatest affront to the source material in the entire run of films.

I would like to point out that the original Casino Royale pointed the way to the correct solution, which is, of course, to select all of the above options and put them in one glorious film.

Yeah…but…

Having fights over movies is part of the fun of movies.

I would go a bit farther and say "equal to" and I'm still not among those trashing the film. It's a decent little horror movie. If you discovered it unheralded on some streaming service or came upon it late night on cable it's precisely the kind of horror movie you'd tell your horror movie fan friends to check out.

That's why the supernatural or borderline supernatural giallos are usually my favorites, though they sort of edge out of the sub-genre.

Yeah, kind of hard not to love 2, even though it's a cartoon and the first one horrific.

It was the very last one. It wasn't so much origin (although a bit of that) but it was this overall humanizing and explaining his psychology, even turning him into a sort of victim.

Yes yes yes yes yes yes. Oh, and yes. And it makes me sad, because Zombie is so clearly such a super fan. I still root for him every movie, but…

The explaining process killed Zombie's Halloween, sure. Oh yes, and Leatherface. And Freddie, yeah. But the most egregious killing has to be of Billy in Black Christmas. That one was just brutal.

Yeah, that's because you weren't unfortunate enough to have the first name Ben.

No, this is good because you may have hit on the exact divide in how (at least some of us) see this movie. I never even thought about it not being Dana's movie. This is not to say that I didn't really enjoy the hi jinks back at the base, but at no point did I see them as anything other than a particularly colorful…

That's okay. This is the place where these things get the most fun. And see, here's the point where I can see most clearly where we diverge because I consider black comedies to most often be a subset of horror.

But if they're watching it for a comedic commentary on a horror movie they are still watching it, fundamentally, as a horror film.