The last horror, thriller or suspense film you watched

He's an underrated actor. He was in the FX show "The Bridge" and was great as an Alcoholic character.

I read an article that at first he was afraid he'd never live the role down in "Scooby Doo". He was ultimately grateful for it.

He has directed films and teaches acting classes. He went through a long drought without a role before he was cast in "The Descendants". He thought he'd never get the role.

Halloween III.

I’ve seen this before, but not from the beginning. 

This one’s better than Halloween II, which had a decent first half and an execrable second, but in a way that’s to its detriment: it’s good enough that you wish it were better. As is, it doesn’t hit the heights of the first one, but in a strange way it may be more interesting.

The elements are excellent: Celtic paganism, witchcraft, Samhain (something the series keeps pushing—it popped up in II as well, for equally no reason), sacrifice, those wonderfully creepy masks, murder by television. The direction (by Tommy Lee Wallace, a John Carpenter protégé) is better than Rick Rosenthal’s relentlessly mediocre direction in II. The James Mason-esque Dan O’Herlihy, who deserves much better material, makes for an excellent underplayed villain. I enjoyed the unnecessary but welcome references to Psycho.

But it’s so shoddily put together. Much of it is slow and kind of dull, and it doesn’t feel of one piece—as if someone were shoehorning things in without figuring out how they were supposed to play out. (Why, for example, the robots? For what storytelling reason do we need the Stonehenge stuff?) One twist was the epitome of pointless. The California setting, while probably necessitated by budget, gives us no autumnal or even spooky atmosphere; the lack of that is probably the kiss of death for a Halloween-set movie.

The ideas are all there…but, boy, do I wish it had been better executed.

On the other hand, the heroine’s cute.

Kiss of the Damned (2012).

’Kiss of the Damned’ was a very good modernised update of those slow-grinding erotic 1970s vampire films. Love the soundtrack too.

Swamp Thing 1982, directed by Wes Craven. Based on DC Comics superhero comics, a humanoid/plant elemental creature.

A sort of how a scientist became the Swamp Thing creature story, and very low-budget, with an actor in a rubber dress.






Very cheesy, but a bit fun, and maybe should be seen as a spoof.

Zombieland (2009).

Hands of the Ripper 1971, directed by Peter Sasdy. A Hammer period slasher, in that is at times very bloody.

Jack the Ripper's daugter is alive and not so well, as she has seen one of her father's murders as a very young kid, and thinks she has to continue his cause. She's used by a fake medium, and later a Freudian Doctor tries to cure her, it doesn't go too well.

Nice period feeling and rather bloody even for a Hammer movie. The movie is actually rather good and tells it's story well.

Jim Wynorski’ sequel ‘Return of Swamp Thing’ pretty much goes the way of a comedy/parody by playing up the campiness & opting for something tongue-in-cheek. I think I enjoyed it even more than the original. 

Z for Zachariah (2015).