DEATH OF TRADITIONAL CINEMA

One of Hollywood's revered camp filmmaker, Wes Craven is back. Nope, I am not counting in MY SOUL TO TAKE, which was heavily plagued by negative reviews. I haven't seen it, and probably never will. I have become a follower of the SCREAM franchise over the years. I don't particularly love the movies, but I do enjoy them, especially that the SCREAM films also serve as a deconstruction of sensational media and the horror genre. So I'm pretty thrilled that a new sequel has turned up. One unmistakable and undisputed claim that SCREAM 4 can have, is that it is is the funniest among the four SCREAM movies. The lines are so campy you'll surely memorize them ("Your lemon squares taste like ass!") and you should see Courteney Cox's Gale everytime she mentions "Deputy Judy".  The lines are not the only humor in SCREAM 4. There's a creepy scene where Deputy Judy (Marley Shelton) speaks to Sidney, and her face is unseen in the dark; then there'...

(Alternate title: SAW 3D) The SAW franchise finally comes to a close. Love it or hate it, SAW has made a significant impact in the gratuitous violence subgenre of horror, and with it the franchise’s antihero Jigsaw becomes an instant classic character— thanks to the macabre portrayal of Tobin Bell, who will always be remembered for this defining role. There’s nothing like the first time watching the first SAW movie, where the viewer is totally clueless, and then comes that final twist where Jigsaw makes himself known to his victims, and to the audience. The sequels tried to capture the intensity of the first SAW movie, and most of them made up for the lack of enigma with heightened onscreen violence. In this seventh and last instalment (please do not make a SAW prequel!) the plot takes off shortly after the final moments of the sixth film. Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) barely makes it out alive after being trapped by Jill Tuck (Betsy Russell) in a head contraption. Now Hoffma...