WATCH THE SERIES: Fright Night
Fright Night was the first modern horror film I ever watched. I remember painting in my parent’s kitchen and my father telling me not to be afraid and just watch it with him. It’s a great start — combining the Hammer films that I loved that didn’t scare me with new school special effects and metacommentary. […]
WATCH THE SERIES: Jurassic Park
In 1990, Universal Studios bought the rights to Michael Crichton’s novel Jurassic Park before it was even published. The idea of dinosaurs being cloned and brought into our modern world just works. Starting with 1993’s Jurassic Park and across several follow-ups, including 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Jurassic World 3, announced for 2021, people can’t seem to get […]
WATCH THE SERIES: Creature from the Black Lagoon
There are no human beings worse than those that confront the Creature from the Black Lagoon, or the Gill-man, as he is sometimes called. All the creature wants to do is swim around, eat flamingos and lounge. Yet humanity wants to impose their will on him and only tragedy ensues. Our clammy pal was the […]
WATCH THE SERIES: Airport
Based on the novel Airport by Arthur Hailey (whose novel Flight into Danger was adapted into Zero Hour! (as well as a later TV movie using the original title) which was later remade as Airplane!, which is also a parody of these films, but more about that later), these four films go from class to cash-in. And the worse they […]
WATCH THE SERIES: Friday the 13th part 5
Friday the 13th has appeared in more than just movies. Here are some of the media appearances that I’ve found interesting and want to share with you. Books Six of the twelve films have been turned into books, with Part 3 written twice! Plus, the Jason Lives book introduced Elias Voorhees, Jason’s father, who paid to have his […]
WATCH THE SERIES: Friday the 13th part 4
With Freddy vs. Jason stuck in development hell (what, no one just wanted to make money?), New Line didn’t want people to forget Jason. So they sent him into the future. They sent him into virtual reality. And they sent him into space. Jason X (2001) In 2010 — 9 years in the future! — Jason is […]
WATCH THE SERIES: Friday the 13th part 3
After years of hating the franchise, Paramount finally decided to give the Friday the 13th series a higher quality of budget and directors. Hey — it only took six movies! Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) Associate producer Barbara Sachs helped dream up several concepts for this film and according to writer Daryl Haney, […]
WATCH THE SERIES: Friday the 13th part 2
By 1984, Jason wasn’t going anywhere, even if every single sequel promised his final kill or the final chapter or the end of the series. As they say in pro wrestling, red means green. And Jason was bringing in plenty of both. (PS – We have an article on Jason in wrestling right here!) Friday […]
WATCH THE SERIES: Friday the 13th part 1
At this point, this is the longest that we’ve ever gone without a Friday the 13th film since the break between Jason Goes to Hell and Jason X in 1993 and 2001. But at one point, these movies owned the box office, with one nearly every summer from 1980-1989. Why did people love them so much? And what were […]
WATCH THE SERIES: Halloween
Watch the series is a new feature at B and S About Movies. In one post, we’ll watch the entire run of a franchise and share some facts and plenty of opinions. There’s no more appropriate series to start with than Halloween. SAM: One of the struggles I’ve had with this blog (and our podcast) […]
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