Silent Night Deadly Night 4: Initiation For the fourth entry in the franchise, the producers decided to drop the stale linear storyline of the previous films and embark on what could be called “Christmas-themed” horror stories using the Silent Night name. Here the story involves an LA journalist (Neith Hunter, introduced memorably in a nude […]
Silent Night Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker For the fifth (and last) in the venerable Xmas horror series, a few adjustments were made in order to actually make this one in some ways the most memorable, with an ending that reeks of perverse genius. Sure, there are some tried and true cornball b-movie elements […]
Silent Rage John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic Halloween and its 1981 sequel are universally recognized as having kicked off the entire so called “slasher wave” of the 1980s, as once most filmmakers realized that these style of films can be made fairly cheap (provided you have a flimsy enough premise to justify having a plot […]
Silver Bullet The early to mid 80s horror movie scene saw a sudden and large increase in the subgenre of werewolf films, spurred no doubt by John Landis’ Masterpiece An American Werewolf In London and the not so great Joe Dante flick The Howling (which nonetheless was also a huge moneymaker). At the same time […]
Sin City Frank Miller’s original graphic novels upon which this movie was based were considered masterpieces in their time, and this 2005 release actually managed to replicate the look and feel of those stories perfectly with an outstanding cast. Director Robert Rodriguez broke a bunch of rules in the process, bringing Miller on set and […]
Sixth Sense It’s rare that a single cinematic moment can have such an impact in movie history, a moment that takes the movie itself from being almost average, and catapults it into being one of the biggest blockbusters of our time, grossing almost $300 million and earning a slew of Oscar Nominations, not to mention […]
Skidoo Considered to be mostly a lost and buried relic of the 60s (though its profile has been raised somewhat by a couple of showings on TCM in the past year), Otto Preminger’s tripped-out masterpiece and ode to the counterculture is aided by an incredible cast and some truly stupefying visuals, anchored by a rock-solid […]
Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow As a critic and overall fan of movies in general, I have NO problem with the idea of using an abundance of CGI to create worlds and images that normally wouldn’t be possible in cinema. However, that visual flair should always be coupled with little things like story, […]
Slap Shot The great sports movies, or in particular, the great sports comedies, don’t really seem to have a set pattern. Some can be the wild comings and goings of crazy characters in a sports setting (Caddyshack), some can be films focused on one or two characters on a given team (Bull Durham), and some […]