What happens when you take an amnesia stricken girl, a grieving beta male, a partially crippled Good Samaritan, and chrome skull masked maniac, toss them in a blender and hit frappe? You get the slasher flick, Laid to Rest.
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This 2009 reboot plays out like a homage to the first few Friday the 13th films. While this should have been a smash hit, it’s missing some of the primal ingredients that make a great slasher.
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If you grew up in the 80s and you’ve become disenchanted with the direction of current horror movies, then Hatchet is certainly for you. Hatchet harkens back to an era when horror movies were supposed to be fast paced, fun and most of all, entertaining. Like I said, if you grew up worshipping horror from the 80s, you will undoubtedly enjoy Hatchet. If you like your horror movies with a little more sophistication or a plot that is ripe with twists and turns…then you might want to avert your eyes.
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Thirty years later and Halloween still remains incredibly relevant. It’s still intense, and it’s still a classic. Few horror movies can withstand the test of time as well as John Carpenter’s Masterpiece. The reason it still works today? Simple…the story is steeped in realism and it’s a situation that everybody can relate to. It boils down to that primal fear that a psycho really might be lurking in the shadows…waiting to hack you to bits.
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Most modern horror movies fall into a trap of following a simple blueprint of whatever is successful at the moment. Japanese horror remakes, torture porn and generic slasher flicks run rampant at movie theatres and video stores. If you want something unique you’re probably going to have to go out of your way to find it. Let me tell you, go get a map and figure out how to find the hidden gem that is, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon.
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