The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Horror
Dolls (1987)
Scary dolls are really only scary when they are inactive. There is something about their stillness, their frozen expression, the light cast on their plastic...
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)
Evil Dead 2; Dead by Dawn is what I wanted from Stuart Gordon's Dolls. From that movie, I wanted a grand guignol of blood and guts...
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
I was an admirer of Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street a few years ago for reasons that are all but lost on the...
The Stepfather (1987)
When The Stepfather was over, I felt a little ashamed of myself. Here is a junky, violent, hateful picture not far removed in spirit from those...
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
Poltergeist II: The Other Side is sound and fury signifying nothing, a good-looking special effects show that contains no less than a flying chainsaw, a...
Silver Bullet (1985)
The legacy of the werewolf is silly all by itself. Let’s face it, the notion of person who turns into a fur-bearing monster by the...
Day of the Dead (1985)
I come to George Romero’s Day of the Dead as Dan O’Bannon’s The Return of the Living Dead still holds fresh in my mind. That...
