Tag: 2000s
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Hooptober 12.0 – Dead Snow (2009)
Being Film #12 for Hooptober 2025 It’s getting harder and harder to reinvigorate the trope of “bunch of young adults headed to a remote cabin where horror ensues”. You could even argue the attempts to subvert the trope is itself a trope. And yet, even though I don’t really love Dead Snow, writer/director Tommy Wirkola’s…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Dark Water (2002)
Being Film #27 for Hooptober 2024 I’ve been thinking a lot about expectations, and how they impact our viewing of a film. Dark Water, the other Hideo Nakata horror film (Ringu being the first) was a film I knew a lot about, but always held off for one reason or another, thinking there would be…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Bhoot (2003)
Being Film #19 for Hooptober 2024 It’s always interesting to see another culture’s take on some tried and true storytelling. The haunted house (or apartment in this case) riff has been going on almost as long as film itself, and seeing the variations play out in Japan (The Grudge) and Indonesia (Satan’s Slaves 2) have…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Death Proof (2007)
Being Film #16 for Hooptober 2024 Outside of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood… I don’t think there’s a more personal, more fanboy love letter to movies in Quentin Tarantino’s filmography than Death Proof. With overt callouts and structural similarities to the films he loves, much of this is readily obvious. But in making his…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Planet Terror (2007)
Being Film #15 for Hooptober 2024 I wish Grindhouse didn’t fail as bad as it did at the box office. I remember seeing the entire experience in theaters and it was incredible. For every pale imitation (Hobo With a Shotgun, Rodriguez’s own Machete) it spawned, it also remains a singular experience, both taken as a…
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Hooptober 10.0 – Crocodile (2000)
Being Film #26 for Hooptober 2023 Make no mistake: Tobe Hooper may be the director of Crocodile, but this is not Eaten Alive. This is a fast buck direct to video movie that normally would be utterly forgettable except that Hooper can’t help but out a few flourishes that almost – and I mean almost…