More Movie Reviews

After suffering through "The Drop", as I described in my earlier post... we moved on to what we hoped were bigger and better things in the world of film-making.. or not...

The idea, being that we are steadily sneaking up on Halloween, was to begin our annual 'Halloween Horror Movie Marathon Extravaganza' (H.H.M.M. - things that make ya go.."Hmmmmm...") here at Thistlebright early enough that we would actually have at least a slim chance of actually finding the time to watch most, if not all, of our horror movies, and, perhaps, to even pop a few new selections into the mix... so.. off we went to the local video rental place, and after painstakingly working our way through the horror movie section... of all of the many hundreds of possibilities... these were our big picks... what a pair of goats we turned out to be in the movie selection department, so far... Oh, man..

Our second pick, "Haunted Highway", was creepily, eerily, disturbingly similar to "The Drop" in many ways; an almost identical dorky protagonist, non-existent plot, characters that you not only do not identify with.. you actually find yourself hoping that they will be killed so that you don't have to deal with them any longer! There were unbelievably tiresome unending repetitions of the same vapid film clip, ceaseless and confusing running back and forth with no apparent purpose... senseless dialog, it was a complete abortion... this movie was, apparently, of the "Hey! I got a video camera that I borrowed, and nothing to do on Saturday evening.... wanna make a movie?!?!" variety...



"Haunted Highway... Prepare to be Driven Insane" - Driven insane?! They were right about that! But, I somehow don't think that it worked out the way they planned... yikes!

Watching this...


... was more interesting by far!


On to the third and final pick of the lot;




Ladies and Gentlemen... we have a winner! "The Hills Have Eyes" is a remake of the 1977 movie of the same title, written by Wes Craven.

This movie was creepy, hideous, disturbing, eerie, macabre, and sort of scary... but, in the way it is supposed to be!! It was well made, suspenseful, had its share of surprises, and was an all around good movie!!

We both enjoyed it and gave it a resounding thumbs up!! So, it looks like the third time pays for all!