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If you are not new to the series, then you already know the month of October is horror-themed. This year we are kicking it off with movies set in schools, and I'm going with the first three movies that came to my mind.
Carrie (1976)
I wasn't a fan of King's novel to begin with so it was predictable I would have ended up disliking the film. It feels more like a romance than a horror, it's boring and lacks tension. The acting is good though.
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
The good thing about this teen horror is that it has plenty of funny moments. The bad thing about this teen horror is that those moments were not supposed to be funny.
Jennifer's Body (2009)
Not sure whether I watched this for my crush on Amanda Seyfried or Megan Fox. Either way, I ended up enjoying it. And I'll be forever grateful to Film Twitter for showing me I'm not the only one who likes this movie.
I chose Carrie as well, although I really loved it. I still haven't seen Jennifer's Body! Maybe this month.
ReplyDeleteIt's really good, I hope you'll like it.
DeleteGreat list! I really need to watch I Know What you Did Last Summer!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteI never rewatch Carrie but Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie are sensational in it. The film really moved Sissy's career along, up to that point she was a promising young actress who had garnered critical praise but the success of the film moved her towards the major stardom that came within a year or two.
ReplyDeleteI laughed my way through I Know What You Did Last Summer. So dumb and predictable but I enjoyed it because of that very ridiculousness.
I should break down and watch Jennifer's Body. It keeps popping up in these lists, I just really don't like Megan Fox.
Not being a horror fan this was a challenge. One film I'd seen lately came to me immediately and then I was stuck so I steered towards a more open interpretation of horror for the other two.
Child’s Play (1972)-Paul Reis (Beau Bridges) returns to St. Charles, the exclusive Catholic prep school he graduated from a decade before to teach. Almost immediately he finds himself caught in a dark power struggle between his former mentor, the popular English teacher Joseph Dobbs (Robert Preston) and the detested autocratic literature teacher Jerome Malley (James Mason). What starts as a cold war of barbed insults between the instructors gradually escalates into cruel mind games that pulls the students into a rash of malicious hazing and ritualistic violence.
Cutting Class (1989)-Freshly sprung from the nuthouse troubled Brian Woods (Donovan Leitch) returns to school where the other kids give him a wide berth. Enamored of fellow student Paula Carson (Jill Schoelen) he attempts to win her away from bad boy Dwight Ingalls (Brad Pitt-looking impossibly young). Their rivalry takes a back seat though when students begin disappearing at an alarming rate with Brian the prime suspect, but is it him? Exploitation junk worth seeing only for baby Brad in one of his first credited roles.
Toy Soldiers (1991)-Seeking to leverage a judge’s son life for the freedom of his drug kingpin father Colombian terrorist Luis Cali (Andrew Divoff) takes the entire campus of the Regis prep school hostage not knowing the boy has been relocated. Since the school is a haven for rebellious students, often expelled from other schools, the main troublemakers-Billy (Sean Astin), Joey (Wil Wheaton), Snuffy (Keith Coogan), Ricardo (George Perez) and Hank (T.E. Russell) find that they are better equipped to deal with the threat than the mostly ineffectual government agencies sent to rescue them. With resourceful Billy as their leader, the students struggle to defeat the terrorists and save the school!! As preposterous as it sounds but still actiony, a little scary at times and fun in a mindless way.
I haven't seen any of your picks but Child's Play kinda sounds interesting.
DeleteWe match on Jennifer's body! I like all of your picks this week. I haven't seen I Know What You Did Last Summer in ages though.
ReplyDeleteI only watched it one and it was enough. That movie is so bad, hilarious at times, but so bad!
DeleteI Know What You Did Last Summer is not set in school. The movie begins during the summer vacation after their final year of high school before they’re suppose to go college or start jobs and then jumps forward a year later when they’re still traumatised by what happen during the last summer vacation.
ReplyDeleteCarrie fits with the whole thing that happens at prom. Not that a fan of the movie either…but I tend to not like King’s movie adaptations.
I like Jennifer’s Body. It’s is a teen horror movie but can’t remember if any of there horror actually takes place in school.
I think I had it mixed up with Scary Movie 😅 I know the others were a bit of a stretch but I couldn't think of anything else for this week and I didn't have a lot of time to work on it either.
DeleteI actually like Carrie and thought it was well acted by Sissy and her nutso mother, Piper Laurie. I haven't seen the other 2 but Jennifer's Body has shown up a lot this week so I might give it a watch even if it stars the blah Megan Fox
ReplyDeleteI STILL have never seen all of Jennifer's Body. I really need to fix that.
ReplyDeleteNice picks! I almost picked Carrie, but I thought it might be pretty popular this week. I went with Scream 2 instead. Jennifer's Body is so much fun. I don't know if I saw that movie for Amanda or Megan either. lol love the relationship between their characters too.
ReplyDeleteI've heard of all of these but haven't watched them yet. I know Carrie is a must.
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