I agree with you on all of these (although, despite having not seen it, I would say ‘71 sounds closer to horror than most war films including everything past the beach in Private Ryan), but I’ve seen other places classify “Shirley” as a horror film.

Note to self: make a 4-hour biopic of D. B. Cooper to help “Knope Grope is Last Hope” see the light.

I remember commercials for Escape From L.A where they also mentioned him getting out of Cleveland, but I don’t think that ever got a movie.

And I would have gotten away with surreptitiously promoting the World Cinema Project too if it were for those darn pop culture commenters!

I couldn’t believe that wasn’t Tom Cruise saying “Vagina poop”!

I completely agree with Dowd that in far too many “horror-comedies” (but not You’re Next) the comedy “steps on” the horror... but I think of American Werewolf in London as a comedy primarily. When Griffin Dunne shows up dead, I’m just amused and not scared. I don’t think of The Howling as a comedy, it’s just a horror…

I watched Thin Red Line a bit after Private Ryan and didn’t care for it at all. I hadn’t seen anything by Malick up to that point. Years later, after I’d seen Tree of Life and his 70s films, I decided to revisit it. It just confirmed my opinion that his complete disinterest in making a war movie (rather than a nature…

Watch real cinema rather than a theme park ride and they both lose!

For those curious, Vera Farmiga has already directed a film. She wanted to play the lead in “Higher Ground” and couldn’t find anyone else to direct it so she did it herself. Her best friend in the film was played by Patrick Wilson’s wife.

I only saw the first two, because those were the two directed by James Wan and they followed right after another. I’ve liked Leigh Whannell’s “Upgrade” and “The Invisible Man”, so perhaps I shouldn’t have been so dismissive of him coming in to direct the prequel in #3.

I avoided it because it sounded dumb and there was already a recent horror film titled “Satanic Panic”. Perhaps I was wrong.

Even calling this a “very loose take” on Poe’s story is being too generous. It’s an in-name only adaptation which has really nothing to do with Poe.

Doh. You are correct, I miswrote the title.

The first Hammer Horror I ever watched was Dracula Rides Out, with Christopher Lee in rare mode as the good guy. It was ok. Then when I finally checked out their earlier stuff I was disappointed to see he had basically no lines. Karloff in The Mummy got to talk, it was practically a Dracula remake (not that Lee’s…

You could really believe Fairuza Balk was a witch, and a dangerous one at that. I doubt this film will measure up in that respect.

I look forward to her annoying her own therapist with the same blinkered thinking and unwillingness to listen that she finds so annoying in her own patients. Paul always seemed like he took a stupid pill prior to every session with Gina.

Matheson even wrote the screenplay but then had his name removed from the credits. The ending is a lot closer to the book than the Will Smith version, but the tone is off.

I still don’t get it.

Which ones did you see?