Anyway, let's catch up on some more Halloween Movie Extravaganza movies! I've had the hardest time keeping up with these movies on the schedule I wanted, because Justin and I went home two weekends ago and left on Thursday for the weekend. Not watching Thursday's movie, and then not watching the 4 following movies over that weekend really put me behind and then I had other stuff to do, and it just got lost from me. I'm sorry about that! I'm gonna try to catch up with what little time in October we have left (!) and get these watched and written about!
Here we go.
NES 7. After the final installment of the storyline regarding Freddy Kruger, we have an out-of-body experience of sorts to continue the name. In this movie, Wes Craven introduces the storyline he would later use for the Scream series, a movie within a movie. This time, all the actors from the previous 6 films acknowledge that the past 6 movies were actually movies and that they are actually actors. It's pretty surreal to say the least. Wes also introduces a new thought process to the storyline of Freddy. Wes suggests that there is an evil spirit which inhabited Freddy Kruger and that Fred was never really a bad guy, just possessed by evil. The evil spirit, now free since the Kruger movies are done and not claiming Kruger as its personal resident anymore, is now haunting our heroine from the first movie, Nancy, in real life. Nancy must defeat the evil spirit to put the real nightmare to rest for good. And of course, she does.
NES 8. The final movie for both respective series, this is Freddy vs. Jason. Since Freddy is for real dead, he enlists the help of Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th franchise to help him continue his killings. Jason is supposed to work as a catalyst to scare the people of Elm Street, since Freddy feeds off their fear. But after Freddy is successfully brought back, he and Jason go up against each other to rack up the most slaughter points.
Saw. Definitely one of my favorite horror movies. This is the story of the Jigsaw killer. After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, John tries to end his own life. When the suicide attempt fails, he has a new outlook on life: thankfulness. When John realizes that he is dying but thankful for life, while others are perfectly healthy and take life for granted, he decides to teach them a lesson, one by one. He snatches his victims up, sedates them, and puts them into terrifying death traps. When they wake up, they are played a tape with instructions in the tape for how to survive. Most people don't survive since panic sets in and the traps are usually set on a timer of a minute or less. But those that do survive are thankful for their life now, in John's eyes, now that they have realized how quickly it can be taken away. The traps are always relevant to how the victim in question is wasting their life. With a great plot, and a brilliant twist-ending, Saw is definitely a Halloween staple.
Saw II. (Don't worry, this is the only sequel of this series I own!) The Jigsaw killer is at it again, targeting a policeman by kidnapping his son. This time, all the victims are captured simultaneously and put into a large decrepit house together. They have to find out what they all have in common, and find a way to survive before the airborne poison that is killing them all sets in. Another twist-ending makes this a worthy sequel, and I don't say that very often.
Disturbia. I've heard this is a remake of Rear Window, but I've never seen that movie. In this "remake," Kale becomes a distant and emotionally upset teenager after the death of his father, which he feels responsible for. After punching a teacher in school, Kale is sentenced to house arrest since he is only 6 months away from being 18 and putting him in Juvie would only work for that long. For the first few days of house arrest, Kale is living the high life. But after his mom cuts him off from video games and TV, Kale has to find something else to do. So he turns to spying on his neighbors. After getting his kicks from watching marital affairs and trouble-making kids around the neighborhood, Kale starts to set his sights on a creepy, quiet neighbor, Robert. There is a scandal on the news about a serial killer in the area and Kale starts noticing similarities between the news details and his neighbor Robert. After enlisting the help of his best friend and the hot new girl next door, the trio find out that Robert really is the killer and they must stop him before he kills again. And this time, he's coming for Kale's mother. A great story, original in its own right, this is a creepy acknowledgement of the dangers of people-watching.
Oh, thank God, you're back.
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