Home Alone (1990)A Christmas Story (1983)National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)Die Hard (1988)Jingle All The Way (1997)Elf (2003)Scrooged (1988)Dr. Suess' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1967)The Santa Clause (1994)Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
The 1990s were a transitional period when the bombast of the 80s hit the dawn of the technology age full blast. I went to see a lot of movies in the theater and I watched even more on home video. Here is my list of ten forgotten comedy gems of the early 90s. Bill Murray plays Bob, the extremely phobic mental patient who tracks…
Jordan Peele of Key & Peele makes his directorial debut with this unconventional horror story that puts a creepy, psychological twist onGuess Who's Coming To Dinner. Chris (Danial Kaluuya) and Rose (Allison Williams) travel to the country to visit Rose's parents for a weekend getaway. Things get cringey and awkward as more people arrive for some sort of gathering and treat Chris in unusual ways.…
Based on a crappy Dean Koontz novel, Odd Thomas (Anton Yelchin) is a likable guy who can see dead people and other ghastly creatures. He uses his special skills to fight the forces of evil and avenge the dead. Things start to spiral out of control as Odd starts to piece together a plot by some crooked cops to carry out a massacre at a…
The new era of horror comedy is under way. With the success of movies like Piranha 3D and Sharknado,the floodgates opened to allow for a wide range of crazy ideas, many involving some sort of animal. The movie starts with a canister of bio hazard waste falling off of a truck, which makes its way downstream to a beaver dam and breaks open. The story shifts…
Part 3 is where things go a little bit nutso. The movie picks up roughly where the last one left off, but quickly side-steps into new territory. Jigsaw/John Kramer is bed-ridden with the full effects of his cancer taking over. His lady accomplice kidnaps a surgeon to perform a cranial surgery to relieve pressure from his brain. Meanwhile, a grieving father is playing the…
Based on the novel Hell House by Richard Matheson, this haunted house flick finds a physicist named Dr. Barrett and a few other people commissioned to investigate a house with a history of paranormal activity. Dr. Barrett brings a huge machine that is supposed to rid the house of bad energy and his wife. There are also a couple of psychics to help with the…
Following the events of the first movie, the flesh-eating infection that took out most of the cast at the cabin is back to take out some of the new cast. Rider Strong's character starts things off with a bang and the tainted nearby water supply is picked up for bottling at a local plant. The new characters are a couple of high school kids…
The Jigsaw killer is back and only Detective Donnie Wahlberg can stop him. The movie opens with a guy falling victim to a Jigsaw game. The detective is called in to identify the body and becomes much more involved in the investigation. They catch Jigsaw, but it's never that easy and a new game begins with the detective's son and a group of people…
Horror anthology movies are still alive and well. While this is nowhere near as good as Creepshow or Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, it does have its moments. Of the four, I liked the third one the best. It was called "Don't Fall" and involved a group of campers who find some cave paintings that serve as a warning. One of the friends becomes possessed…
