Dan Ireland on “A Nightmare On Elm Street”
Aug 24, 2012
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Wes Craven started a wildly popular franchise with this offbeat chiller which pretty much became a license to print money. It made back its $1.8 million budget in the first week and influenced the horror genre for decades. Robert Englund's child-killer Freddy Kruger, named after a school bully in Craven's past, went on to slash his way through 8 sequels and a tv series, but not the 2010 reboot (in which the role was played by Jackie Earle Haley, who had a supporting role in the original).
Victor Jones on Poison Ivy
05/22/2013
I had the fortune of seeing Poison Ivy in the theatre (albeit a second-run dollar theatre) during its original release. I think I saw a trailer for it at a showing of Bill Duke's Deep Cover, and I think Poison Ivy only played for a week first-run...
Victor Jones on Vertigo
05/22/2013
Like swac, I saw Vertigo in the theatre during the '80s when Universal re-released five Hitchcock movies that had been taken out of circulation. As I recall, I got lost for a bit when Scotty started following the brunette woman midway through the movie, and I was startled when the Universal globe came up at the end with no reckoning for the villain My response was something along the lines of "That's it? I thought bad guys had to be caught or killed under the Hayes Office...
Victor Jones on Vertigo
05/22/2013
Like swac, I saw Vertigo in the theatre during the '80s when Universal re-released five Hitchcock movies that had been taken out of circulation. As I recall, I got lost for a bit when Scotty started following the brunette woman midway through the movie, and I was startled when the Universal globe came up at the end with no reckoning for the villain My response was something along the lines of "That's it? I thought bad guys had to be caught or killed under the Hayes Office...
Paul on Django Unchained
05/22/2013
Wow - It's disappointing to see such negativity show up on this site. Brian, I love your commentaries and always look forward to them!!!
jordan24 on Robocop
05/21/2013
my friends were surprised that when we were talking about the movie, i told them that 4 people in the Robocop cast. Peter Weller and Ray Wise(S5) Paul McCrane(S6) and Kurtwood Smith(S7) all wound up of seasons of 24'
AlexTrenchard-Smith on Django Unchained
05/21/2013
Wow, this Okko guy really needs to get a life. Such hurtful words...
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