Long-delayed new reviews at 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting:
Effects (1979), in which most of the people making a cheap horror movie that’s really a snuff film think they’re in on the con, but nobody’s in on the whole con…
Halloween II (2009), in which Rob Zombie brings the saga of Michael Myers to an ending that not even an Akkad can walk back…
Nope (2022), in which the unidentified flying object is more importantly a misidentified flying object…
The Northman (2022), in which Hamlet doesn’t give a crap what’s nobler in the mind…
She-Wolf of London (1946), in which the second cycle of Universal Horror makes one last orbit around the drain before plunging in…
Terror Train (1980), or Murder on the Disorient Express…
and…
X (2022), in which you don’t have to bring a chainsaw for a Texas Massacre.
El Santo rules the wasteland-- and also 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting.
#1 by Chris on September 28, 2022 - 11:01 am
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Is it weird that I thought El Santo meant Midnight Meat Train? Looking forward to Nope when it rolls around.
#2 by El Santo on September 28, 2022 - 11:31 am
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“Is it weird that I thought El Santo meant Midnight Meat Train?”
You definitely weren’t the only one who made that guess.
#3 by Brian on September 28, 2022 - 3:00 pm
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Wow, loved the review of Halloween II. I’m shocked that Zombie was able to work his way above the 2-star ratings you’ve given him in the past. I still don’t love his Halloween II but there are elements of it that I really do like and your review highlights all of them!
#4 by Hurdy Gurdy Man on September 29, 2022 - 9:17 am
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Excellent reviews as always, El Santo, you do not disappoint your avid readers!
I, too, had assumed you meant The Midnight Meat Train by the mention of “mass-transit murder”. I have got a soft spot for that film but Terror Train applies, too. As for “Viking vengeance”, The Northman or any recent title did not come to my mind at all. I searched IMDb with the keyword viking in the Horror genre and came up with the obscure 1987 slasher Berserker as a likely guess.
I hated Halloween II in 2009 but your positive review has encouraged me to give it another go with a clearer head and less prejudiced mindset.
#5 by El Santo on September 29, 2022 - 10:45 am
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Oh man, I totally forgot about Berserker! I learned of it from Joe Bob Briggs’s old review for the Dallas Times-Herald, collected in Joe Bob Briggs Goes to the Drive-In. Unless… If Berserker came out in 1987, maybe that means the review was in Joe Bob Briggs Goes Back to the Drive-In instead. It was one of his early newspaper review collections, anyway. I will indeed have to write that one up myself one of these days.
#6 by Alaric on October 1, 2022 - 5:19 pm
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I was in high school in NYC when Terror Train came out. I never saw it, but I remember the posters all over the subway stations (“The boys and girls of Sigma Phi, Some will live, and some will die” is permanently etched into my brain). So, it’s kind of funny for me to see it referred to as “obscure”, even though I’m sure it actually is.