Candyman isn’t a “teen” slasher. It’s about anthropologists (who own a condo!), and based on a Clive Barker story.

Why not? If his movies are more popular in certain areas compared to others, wouldn’t the box office be higher? We might also want to compare its performance to other movies to get some sort of relative score.

Horror is my favorite genre, so I wouldn’t normally say I’m missing any “classics”, but there are some on your list I haven’t seen: Cabin Fever (I haven’t seen any of Eli Roth’s features), I Spit on Your Grave (I figure Last House on the Left covers 70s rape-revenge while also being a Virgin Spring remake) &…

Hausu was intentionally made to seem like a child wrote it (and did the animation). There’s a very good reason why most films don’t take that approach.

The maligning of Halloween II is fair. Friday the 13th was a cruder knockoff of Halloween, and Halloween II seems like an imitation of that.

Screening sites are a standard practice among distributors. Not making a film available to critics in advance is considered an implicit admission that it’s terrible.

Good point. Although back then, Hawaii wasn’t one of the United States.

This seems like the sort of question that could be addressed via box office numbers broken up by location, but you always hear about them aggregated nationally.

Whether a review counts as “promotion” is precisely what I am disputing. Assuming the conclusion you are attempting to argue for doesn’t constitute an argument at all.

I appreciate your attempt to provide a spoiler warning, but unfortunately, I saw a wide swath of text at once and got spoiled. I blame Kinja’s lack of Disqus’ spoiler tags.

He didn’t direct, but he was involved in writing early on. I guess similar to the recent “IT” before Andy Muschietti took it over.

It was marines fighting the Japanese military, but not on Japanese soil.

By “hyphenate filmmakers”, do you mean writer-directors or actor-directors?

No, there was no agreement to “promote” the film. It was made available for critics, and Ignatiy gave it a D (“the gentleman’s F”).

I don’t think they regard their reviews as “support” for the creators.

Impressionists apply a specificity which Sandler lacks.

Barker himself adapted the first Hellraiser. He thought very little of the sequels still trying to cash in on his name when he had nothing to do with them.

The USA is an unusually diverse country.

Oh, I’m sure some of those will still qualify under these standards.

while it’s impossible to confirm, he’s probably not wrong. It doesn’t take much in the way of deductive reasoning to figure that one out.