Phantasm is very interesting, to say the least. It is very good, I did like it, but it is very weird.
Released in 1979, and directed by Don Coscarelli. It is very cool to watch, because a lot of the time, you don`t really know what’s happening, it can be pretty crazy at times.
It is about a kid named Mike and his older brother Jody, who is raising him because their parents are dead. A friend of Jody`s dies and Mike spies on the funeral and see`s a tall man carrying the coffin on his own and driving away with it. Mike eventually sneaks into the mansion by the grave yard. He finds out that something is seriously wrong and is attacked by The Tall Man. He escapes and tells Jody, they and their friend Reggie go back to the mansion to try to stop whatever it is that is going on. The Tall Man has an army of hooded dwarfs made of the dead people in the grave yard. They make a plan to kill The Tall Man, but he starts getting more serious with his attacks.
This movie was low-budget and very successful. It spawned three sequels, which apparently are all pretty bad. It has a cult following now and was ranked #25 on Bravo`s 100 Scariest Movie Moments. I totally understand all that. This was a really good horror movie; it was scary, and very cool. The character of The Tall Man was creepy at times, and at other times he was all out terrifying. Something would be happening and all of a sudden he would just come out of nowhere and attack someone. He is surprisingly fast for an elderly man. Angus Scrimm returned in all movies to play The Tall Man.
The acting is all around pretty good. There isn`t one actor who steals the show, they all pull their own weight. The effects were very good, epically for the time, and the sets were amazing for some scenes, mainly the interior of the mansion. The film was giving an X rating just because of the silver orb. It’s a small flying silver orb and drills into your head and drains your blood out, the rating was later brought down to an R.
All in all, a good horror movie, and it still stands up well today, it’s not really dated.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Last House on the Left
Review #6: Last House on the Left
Wes Craven`s very first film, before the Nightmare on Elm Street films, Before Scream, before all that, he started with this. Made in 1972, and for its time, it was probably one of the most graphic, harsh films made. There is a lot of nudity, a lot of blood, and a lot of just very dark things going on.
Basically, it is about two young girls; the main girl is called Mari. They are going into the city to see a concert; they get kidnapped by a group of four people and are raped, abused and eventually horribly killed. The four people clean up and need a place to stay and they end up staying Mari`s parents house. That night her parents find out that Mari is dead and that the people staying in their house killed them. Mari`s parents aren`t happy and start their revenge. I`m not going to give away anything else, but it gets pretty crazy.
Now, this film was awesome. I only had two really problems with, and they were small things. One of them was I thought that the parents handled finding out their daughter is dead pretty well. They kind of found, found her body, and showed very little emotion. The other problem was something that bugged me personally, I don`t think it would apply to lot of people. I wanted the scenes with the bad guys hurting the girls to be more extreme. I was expecting all out hell with those scenes and I was kind of let down with, I wanted it to be brutal.
The things I did like, was the acting (for most of the time), especially the two girls and the villains. The villains were cruel, harsh and crazy. The two girls were innocent (to a degree), sweet and just got caught in a horrible thing.
Now, this is not Wes Craven`s best film, but of course it isn`t, it’s his first, and very rarely is the first films a person’s best films. Other than this film, I haven`t seen a whole lot of his films. I`ve seen Nightmare on Elm Street, all four Scream films, and that’s it. This was still very good.
Wes Craven`s very first film, before the Nightmare on Elm Street films, Before Scream, before all that, he started with this. Made in 1972, and for its time, it was probably one of the most graphic, harsh films made. There is a lot of nudity, a lot of blood, and a lot of just very dark things going on.
Basically, it is about two young girls; the main girl is called Mari. They are going into the city to see a concert; they get kidnapped by a group of four people and are raped, abused and eventually horribly killed. The four people clean up and need a place to stay and they end up staying Mari`s parents house. That night her parents find out that Mari is dead and that the people staying in their house killed them. Mari`s parents aren`t happy and start their revenge. I`m not going to give away anything else, but it gets pretty crazy.
Now, this film was awesome. I only had two really problems with, and they were small things. One of them was I thought that the parents handled finding out their daughter is dead pretty well. They kind of found, found her body, and showed very little emotion. The other problem was something that bugged me personally, I don`t think it would apply to lot of people. I wanted the scenes with the bad guys hurting the girls to be more extreme. I was expecting all out hell with those scenes and I was kind of let down with, I wanted it to be brutal.
The things I did like, was the acting (for most of the time), especially the two girls and the villains. The villains were cruel, harsh and crazy. The two girls were innocent (to a degree), sweet and just got caught in a horrible thing.
Now, this is not Wes Craven`s best film, but of course it isn`t, it’s his first, and very rarely is the first films a person’s best films. Other than this film, I haven`t seen a whole lot of his films. I`ve seen Nightmare on Elm Street, all four Scream films, and that’s it. This was still very good.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Movie Review #4 and 5
Movie Review #4/5: House of 1,000 Corpses, The Devils Rejects
So, this is a double feature, Rob Zombie`s first two films, The Devils Rejects is a sequel to the first movie. Because this is a double review, it will probably be longer than usual. So, let’s get started with the first one, House of 1,000 Corpses.
House of 1,000 Corpses was Rob Zombie`s first film, released in 2003.
It basically is about four young people who are touring around America writing a book about strange attractions. They stumble upon a place owned by Captain Spaulding, a very scary clown. He takes them on a tour of his museum of horrors and tells about the local legend of Dr. Satan, a surgeon who horrifically tortures his victims. When they leave, their tire is shot by a man, but they don`t that. They end up at house with a few very strange people (the Firefly family). Without spoiling anything, the family kidnaps them and tortures them, eventually leading them to Dr. Satan.
This film was pretty good. When I was watching it I was into it, it was scary, and it was disturbing and all around pretty good. After I watched it, the thrill sort of faded a bit. It was still good but I not everything I think it could`ve been. I did like the style of filmmaking Rob Zombie used, it was pretty good quality but it would cut to really grainy scenes, sometimes random, sometimes not. But still very cool.
All in all, not a bad start to his career, which is still pretty young, he only has four released films.
And now for, The Devils Rejects.
Now, just to start off with, House of 1,000 Corpses has nothing on Devils Rejects.
This film picks up a few months after the first one. The police have issued a search and destroy on the Firefly family and they have committed over 75 homicides.
Its starts with the police arriving at the Firefly house and telling them to come out. They of course won`t go out without a fight so they gear up with guns and armor and start fighting. One of them is killed and Mama Firefly is captured, Baby and Otis escape. They head to a motel and call Captain Spaulding (Baby`s dad). Once there they take two couples under hostage and sexually abuse the women. Otis then takes the men with him to dig up some guns he buried. They attack him but he quickly gets the upper hand and kills them both. One of the women tries to escape from baby but she is stopped and the other woman is killed. A maid enters the room later and finds the grisly mess and one woman alive with her husband’s skinned face on her as a mask. When she runs for help she is killed by a passing truck. Otis and Baby meet with Captain Spaulding and they go to a friend named Charlie. This is one of my favorite scenes, they are partying at Charlie`s with no sound heard except Rocky Mountain Way by Joe Walsh. It`s a really fun and cool scene, with cuts to the Sheriff talking to himself getting ready to get them. Charlie sells them out to the cops and they are caught. Now, up to this point, we have looked as the sheriff as the good guy, he is an asshole, but the good guy. This is where that changes. When he catches them, he goes crazy. He killed Mama Firefly and taunts Baby with that. The Firefly also killed his brother and he goes all out on them for that. He staples pictures of victims to their stomachs, nails Otis`s hands to the chair. He then lets Baby go outside and then hunts her. When he is about to kill her, Tiny shows up (Baby`s brother who is giant and deformed with burns)
and kills the sheriff. He saves Otis and Spaulding and walks back into the burning house to die. Later, the three are driving and meet a police road block. With no sound but Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd (which is the best use this has ever been put to). They drive to the cops shooting their guns; in the end they are killed.
Sorry for the spoilers on that one, I couldn`t resist.
So, as I said before, this film is much better than the first, and probably one of my favorite films of all time now. It is scary, disturbing (beautifully), chaotic and brilliant. As far as I`m concerned, Rob Zombie peeked in this film and I don`t know if he will ever beat that, but I have high hopes with him. I saw this film on Netflix, but I saw it in a store a week earlier, on a double feature with the first one, I wasn`t going to buy it but if I see it, I`m getting it. Amazing.
So, this is a double feature, Rob Zombie`s first two films, The Devils Rejects is a sequel to the first movie. Because this is a double review, it will probably be longer than usual. So, let’s get started with the first one, House of 1,000 Corpses.
House of 1,000 Corpses was Rob Zombie`s first film, released in 2003.
It basically is about four young people who are touring around America writing a book about strange attractions. They stumble upon a place owned by Captain Spaulding, a very scary clown. He takes them on a tour of his museum of horrors and tells about the local legend of Dr. Satan, a surgeon who horrifically tortures his victims. When they leave, their tire is shot by a man, but they don`t that. They end up at house with a few very strange people (the Firefly family). Without spoiling anything, the family kidnaps them and tortures them, eventually leading them to Dr. Satan.
This film was pretty good. When I was watching it I was into it, it was scary, and it was disturbing and all around pretty good. After I watched it, the thrill sort of faded a bit. It was still good but I not everything I think it could`ve been. I did like the style of filmmaking Rob Zombie used, it was pretty good quality but it would cut to really grainy scenes, sometimes random, sometimes not. But still very cool.
All in all, not a bad start to his career, which is still pretty young, he only has four released films.
And now for, The Devils Rejects.
Now, just to start off with, House of 1,000 Corpses has nothing on Devils Rejects.
This film picks up a few months after the first one. The police have issued a search and destroy on the Firefly family and they have committed over 75 homicides.
Its starts with the police arriving at the Firefly house and telling them to come out. They of course won`t go out without a fight so they gear up with guns and armor and start fighting. One of them is killed and Mama Firefly is captured, Baby and Otis escape. They head to a motel and call Captain Spaulding (Baby`s dad). Once there they take two couples under hostage and sexually abuse the women. Otis then takes the men with him to dig up some guns he buried. They attack him but he quickly gets the upper hand and kills them both. One of the women tries to escape from baby but she is stopped and the other woman is killed. A maid enters the room later and finds the grisly mess and one woman alive with her husband’s skinned face on her as a mask. When she runs for help she is killed by a passing truck. Otis and Baby meet with Captain Spaulding and they go to a friend named Charlie. This is one of my favorite scenes, they are partying at Charlie`s with no sound heard except Rocky Mountain Way by Joe Walsh. It`s a really fun and cool scene, with cuts to the Sheriff talking to himself getting ready to get them. Charlie sells them out to the cops and they are caught. Now, up to this point, we have looked as the sheriff as the good guy, he is an asshole, but the good guy. This is where that changes. When he catches them, he goes crazy. He killed Mama Firefly and taunts Baby with that. The Firefly also killed his brother and he goes all out on them for that. He staples pictures of victims to their stomachs, nails Otis`s hands to the chair. He then lets Baby go outside and then hunts her. When he is about to kill her, Tiny shows up (Baby`s brother who is giant and deformed with burns)
and kills the sheriff. He saves Otis and Spaulding and walks back into the burning house to die. Later, the three are driving and meet a police road block. With no sound but Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd (which is the best use this has ever been put to). They drive to the cops shooting their guns; in the end they are killed.
Sorry for the spoilers on that one, I couldn`t resist.
So, as I said before, this film is much better than the first, and probably one of my favorite films of all time now. It is scary, disturbing (beautifully), chaotic and brilliant. As far as I`m concerned, Rob Zombie peeked in this film and I don`t know if he will ever beat that, but I have high hopes with him. I saw this film on Netflix, but I saw it in a store a week earlier, on a double feature with the first one, I wasn`t going to buy it but if I see it, I`m getting it. Amazing.
Movie Review #3 American Beauty
Movie Review #3: American Beauty
American Beauty… Brilliant! It was an amazing film, the acting, the story, the dialogue, everything was great. Starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Benning, respectively. They are married but basically hate each other now. Kevin Spacey`s
character is unhappy with his job and with his life at home. Hs teenage daughter, Jane, hates both her parents. Kevin Spacey eventually falls in love his daughters best friend, Angela. Once he meets Angela, he feels like a new man, he works out, he quits his job and takes control at home. He continuously fantasizes about Angela, and Angela teases Jane about this. His relationship with his family continues to deteriorate. Meanwhile, new neighbors move next door, a homophobic ex-Marine, his wife who has some sort of mental problem, and their son, who is obsessed with filming everything he deems beautiful, including Jane.
Jane and the new neighbor fall in love, and start spending a lot of time together, which leads to fights between Jane and Angela. The new neighbor starts selling pot to Kevin Spacey, but his homophobic dad thinks he providing sexual services to Kevin Spacey for money, and his son says he is, which makes the dad kick him out. He goes to Jane and they decide to run away to New York. Kevin Spacey is finally about to have sex with Angela but she reveals she is a virgin, so he stops and comforts her. His wife is having an affair and can`t take Kevin Spacey anymore and shoots him. This film was one of the best movie`s I`ve seen in a long time, there were certain moments were you sort of want to laugh, but there was also a dark side to the scene as well that prevented the comedy from really coming through. There were a lot of beautiful shots in this movie, mainly shots of the neighborhood. As I said before, the acting was great. Annette Benning at times seemed a bit annoying to me, but for the most part she was very good. But the true star was Kevin Spacey, he was brilliant. His character was a tired, run down, man who has given up. But once he meets Angela, he becomes this whole new person, eccentric, unpredictable, and powerful. All in all, an amazing movie.
American Beauty… Brilliant! It was an amazing film, the acting, the story, the dialogue, everything was great. Starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Benning, respectively. They are married but basically hate each other now. Kevin Spacey`s
character is unhappy with his job and with his life at home. Hs teenage daughter, Jane, hates both her parents. Kevin Spacey eventually falls in love his daughters best friend, Angela. Once he meets Angela, he feels like a new man, he works out, he quits his job and takes control at home. He continuously fantasizes about Angela, and Angela teases Jane about this. His relationship with his family continues to deteriorate. Meanwhile, new neighbors move next door, a homophobic ex-Marine, his wife who has some sort of mental problem, and their son, who is obsessed with filming everything he deems beautiful, including Jane.
Jane and the new neighbor fall in love, and start spending a lot of time together, which leads to fights between Jane and Angela. The new neighbor starts selling pot to Kevin Spacey, but his homophobic dad thinks he providing sexual services to Kevin Spacey for money, and his son says he is, which makes the dad kick him out. He goes to Jane and they decide to run away to New York. Kevin Spacey is finally about to have sex with Angela but she reveals she is a virgin, so he stops and comforts her. His wife is having an affair and can`t take Kevin Spacey anymore and shoots him. This film was one of the best movie`s I`ve seen in a long time, there were certain moments were you sort of want to laugh, but there was also a dark side to the scene as well that prevented the comedy from really coming through. There were a lot of beautiful shots in this movie, mainly shots of the neighborhood. As I said before, the acting was great. Annette Benning at times seemed a bit annoying to me, but for the most part she was very good. But the true star was Kevin Spacey, he was brilliant. His character was a tired, run down, man who has given up. But once he meets Angela, he becomes this whole new person, eccentric, unpredictable, and powerful. All in all, an amazing movie.
Movie Review #2 Black Christmas
Movie Review #2: Black Christmas
Black Christmas was released in 1974, and I`m guessing it was quite unusual and gruesome for that time. It was directed by Bob Clark, who also made A Christmas Story, which is good, but he also made Baby Geniuses, which is not good. The film stars Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, and John Saxon, along with other actors but they are the main three. The film is about a college sorority house around Christmas time. A man climbs up their house and breaks into their attic. He kills a woman by putting plastic on her face which suffocates her; the image of her sitting in a rocking chair with the plastic on her mouth has become quite famous and is the cover for the film, for most versions. The girl’s father shows up looking for her, a search party is out looking for her and for a little girl who was murdered in the park. The killer keeps phoning the house, screaming in different voices, and he starts killing people one by one. It eventually leads John Saxon who is a detective, trying to track the killer every time he calls. Eventually he finds out the calls have not only been going to the house, they`ve been coming from the house. Olivia Hussey finds out she is the only girl alive now and hides in basement. When the killer can`t come in to the basement, he leaves the house tries to break into a window in the basement. This is when you see that the man outside the window is Olivia Hussey`s boyfriend Peter. He breaks in and finds her. Just as the police arrive they hear screams from the house they find Olivia Hussey in the basement and her boyfriend who is dead. They take out all the bodies except the two in attic, and leave her to sleep. While she is asleep the camera goes to the attic and the door to the attic opens and we hear the killer talking to himself.
I liked a lot about this film, but there were some stuff I didn`t like. To me, the scariest thing was the killer himself, not what he did. He would call the girls in the house and scream, yell, moan, and cry at them. He would hold conversations and arguments with himself in different voices. This was scary. The phone call that sticks with me is near the beginning, he calls and is yelling very sexual things to them and Margot Kidder insults him a few times, he stops screaming right away and calmly replies, “I`m going to kill you” and hangs up. That was scary as hell. And also, sometimes we see him in the attic and he is freaking out. He is screaming and pushing things over. Another thing I liked is that every time we see the killer, it’s from his eyes. We never actually see him, other little glimpses, like we see his eye. But it’s all first person point of view with him. One thing I didn`t like is how at the end when they think her boyfriend was the killer, yet they proved he wasn`t earlier on in the film. And also, they don`t check the whole house at the end, the police don`t check the attic… Why! It’s not like its hidden, there is a huge ladder in the middle of the hall leading to it, and they don`t check it! The killer is hiding there and there are two missing people`s dead bodies in there! Now, when they find Olivia Hussey`s boyfriend and think he is the killer, that was pretty believable, because he is insane. Olivia was pregnant and wanted an abortion he would not let her have one and he was acting crazy. We also see him in a recital for piano, he is playing piano and it cuts back Olivia`s character in the house. It then cuts back to the recital hall and Peter is destroying the piano with a lamp. He is crazy.
So yeah, it was a really good film, pretty scary, and a great Christmas movie!
Black Christmas was released in 1974, and I`m guessing it was quite unusual and gruesome for that time. It was directed by Bob Clark, who also made A Christmas Story, which is good, but he also made Baby Geniuses, which is not good. The film stars Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, and John Saxon, along with other actors but they are the main three. The film is about a college sorority house around Christmas time. A man climbs up their house and breaks into their attic. He kills a woman by putting plastic on her face which suffocates her; the image of her sitting in a rocking chair with the plastic on her mouth has become quite famous and is the cover for the film, for most versions. The girl’s father shows up looking for her, a search party is out looking for her and for a little girl who was murdered in the park. The killer keeps phoning the house, screaming in different voices, and he starts killing people one by one. It eventually leads John Saxon who is a detective, trying to track the killer every time he calls. Eventually he finds out the calls have not only been going to the house, they`ve been coming from the house. Olivia Hussey finds out she is the only girl alive now and hides in basement. When the killer can`t come in to the basement, he leaves the house tries to break into a window in the basement. This is when you see that the man outside the window is Olivia Hussey`s boyfriend Peter. He breaks in and finds her. Just as the police arrive they hear screams from the house they find Olivia Hussey in the basement and her boyfriend who is dead. They take out all the bodies except the two in attic, and leave her to sleep. While she is asleep the camera goes to the attic and the door to the attic opens and we hear the killer talking to himself.
I liked a lot about this film, but there were some stuff I didn`t like. To me, the scariest thing was the killer himself, not what he did. He would call the girls in the house and scream, yell, moan, and cry at them. He would hold conversations and arguments with himself in different voices. This was scary. The phone call that sticks with me is near the beginning, he calls and is yelling very sexual things to them and Margot Kidder insults him a few times, he stops screaming right away and calmly replies, “I`m going to kill you” and hangs up. That was scary as hell. And also, sometimes we see him in the attic and he is freaking out. He is screaming and pushing things over. Another thing I liked is that every time we see the killer, it’s from his eyes. We never actually see him, other little glimpses, like we see his eye. But it’s all first person point of view with him. One thing I didn`t like is how at the end when they think her boyfriend was the killer, yet they proved he wasn`t earlier on in the film. And also, they don`t check the whole house at the end, the police don`t check the attic… Why! It’s not like its hidden, there is a huge ladder in the middle of the hall leading to it, and they don`t check it! The killer is hiding there and there are two missing people`s dead bodies in there! Now, when they find Olivia Hussey`s boyfriend and think he is the killer, that was pretty believable, because he is insane. Olivia was pregnant and wanted an abortion he would not let her have one and he was acting crazy. We also see him in a recital for piano, he is playing piano and it cuts back Olivia`s character in the house. It then cuts back to the recital hall and Peter is destroying the piano with a lamp. He is crazy.
So yeah, it was a really good film, pretty scary, and a great Christmas movie!
Movie Review #1 Scream
Movie Review #1: Scream
Scream was only my second look into the dark but imaginative and quite fun world of Wes Craven. Lately I`ve been getting into horror films a lot, especially the slasher genre. The other film I`ve seen by Wes Craven is A Nightmare on Elm Street, which I love. Knowing that he is a horror god, I had high hopes when I started this film, and I was not let down. It was released in 1996, and has become an extremely popular film. It revolves around a teenage girl named Sidney, who a year prior to the opening of the film walked in on her mother who was just raped and killed, and she testified against the man who supposedly did it, sending him to jail. So, that whole experience has made her very tense about sex, and she has a boyfriend, Billy, who has so far been patient about her nervousness about sex. The opening scene actually has Drew Barrymore in it, she plays a teenager about to settle down and watch a horror movie, when she gets a phone call from a man she does not know and hangs up. He calls back many times and eventually gets angry, she finds out that the mysterious man has her boyfriend and will kill him unless she can answer questions about horror movies. When she gets one of them wrong, her boyfriend is killed. She is now scared out of her mind and is hiding in the house, she eventually gets out of the house trying to escape, but is killed by a man wearing a black cloak and a mask, now known as ghost face. This was a shocking scene, the first time I tried to watch it (a few years ago), I put it off, I was terrified. It is quite intense and genuinely scary. Also, this was shocking because Drew Barrymore was advertised as a main character, and she was killed in the first 15 minutes. So, now it introduces Sidney and her friends, including her best friend Tatum, her boyfriend Billy, Randy, and Stu. The school is full of reporters about the killings of two teenagers, and we meet Gale Weathers, a big reporter who will do anything to get the story, she is played by Courteney Cox. Sidney is attacked by ghost face, but manages to survive just as her boyfriend arrives, and he drops a phone, she now thinks he made the scary phone calls. He is arrested but then later released when they find he didn`t make the phone calls. People are now dressing up as ghost face at school to scare Sidney, but she decides to go to a party hosted by Stu. After she finally has sex with Billy, and most people have left, the killer is in the house and after killing Tatum and almost killing Randy, he goes after Sidney. Now although I have given a somewhat detailed analysis of the plot, I am not going to give the rest away. I thought the ending was great; I loved the killers and just how crazy they were. Now onto the things I really liked; one thing in particular was these two references to A Nightmare on Elm Street. In the beginning when Drew Barrymore is on the phone with ghost face, he says that his favorite horror movie was A Nightmare on Elm Street, he said it was scary. Drew said the first one was but the rest were bad. I loved that scene because Wes Craven only directed the first Nightmare film (in the original series). Another thing was that Wes Craven had a cameo. The principle of the school thinks someone is watching him, he goes out of his office looking for them and says an insult under his breath, you then see Wes Craven as a janitor wearing the hat and sweater from A Nightmare on Elm Street, and he says “What?” The principle says that he wasn`t talking to him, and the janitors name was Fred. I loved that scene.
Anyway, that’s it for this review, as for the film, I really liked and I am looking forward to the rest of series.
Scream was only my second look into the dark but imaginative and quite fun world of Wes Craven. Lately I`ve been getting into horror films a lot, especially the slasher genre. The other film I`ve seen by Wes Craven is A Nightmare on Elm Street, which I love. Knowing that he is a horror god, I had high hopes when I started this film, and I was not let down. It was released in 1996, and has become an extremely popular film. It revolves around a teenage girl named Sidney, who a year prior to the opening of the film walked in on her mother who was just raped and killed, and she testified against the man who supposedly did it, sending him to jail. So, that whole experience has made her very tense about sex, and she has a boyfriend, Billy, who has so far been patient about her nervousness about sex. The opening scene actually has Drew Barrymore in it, she plays a teenager about to settle down and watch a horror movie, when she gets a phone call from a man she does not know and hangs up. He calls back many times and eventually gets angry, she finds out that the mysterious man has her boyfriend and will kill him unless she can answer questions about horror movies. When she gets one of them wrong, her boyfriend is killed. She is now scared out of her mind and is hiding in the house, she eventually gets out of the house trying to escape, but is killed by a man wearing a black cloak and a mask, now known as ghost face. This was a shocking scene, the first time I tried to watch it (a few years ago), I put it off, I was terrified. It is quite intense and genuinely scary. Also, this was shocking because Drew Barrymore was advertised as a main character, and she was killed in the first 15 minutes. So, now it introduces Sidney and her friends, including her best friend Tatum, her boyfriend Billy, Randy, and Stu. The school is full of reporters about the killings of two teenagers, and we meet Gale Weathers, a big reporter who will do anything to get the story, she is played by Courteney Cox. Sidney is attacked by ghost face, but manages to survive just as her boyfriend arrives, and he drops a phone, she now thinks he made the scary phone calls. He is arrested but then later released when they find he didn`t make the phone calls. People are now dressing up as ghost face at school to scare Sidney, but she decides to go to a party hosted by Stu. After she finally has sex with Billy, and most people have left, the killer is in the house and after killing Tatum and almost killing Randy, he goes after Sidney. Now although I have given a somewhat detailed analysis of the plot, I am not going to give the rest away. I thought the ending was great; I loved the killers and just how crazy they were. Now onto the things I really liked; one thing in particular was these two references to A Nightmare on Elm Street. In the beginning when Drew Barrymore is on the phone with ghost face, he says that his favorite horror movie was A Nightmare on Elm Street, he said it was scary. Drew said the first one was but the rest were bad. I loved that scene because Wes Craven only directed the first Nightmare film (in the original series). Another thing was that Wes Craven had a cameo. The principle of the school thinks someone is watching him, he goes out of his office looking for them and says an insult under his breath, you then see Wes Craven as a janitor wearing the hat and sweater from A Nightmare on Elm Street, and he says “What?” The principle says that he wasn`t talking to him, and the janitors name was Fred. I loved that scene.
Anyway, that’s it for this review, as for the film, I really liked and I am looking forward to the rest of series.
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