Horror

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

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  • Title: Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
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Released 20 years after the original Halloween, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later brought back Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode while retconning much of the franchise becoming a direct sequel to Halloween II (which, until H20, marked Curtis’ last appearance as the character). After an initial sequence showing Michael Meyers (played here by Chris Durand) back on the hunt, the movie opens with Strode having faked her death years earlier and now living as Keri Tate, the headmistress of a private school that her son John (Josh Hartnett) attends.

Directed by Steve Miner, after John Carpenter proved too expensive for the project, the sequel lacks the look of the early Halloween films feeling much more like any other generic 90s horror flick. We also get LL Cool J in a role of school security guard, Adam Arkin as a love interest for Laurie, Janet Leigh as the school secretary, and Michelle Williams, Adam Hann-Byrd, Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, Branden Williams, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as teen monster fodder for Michael.

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Willy’s Wonderland

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  • Title: Willy’s Wonderland
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Willy's Wonderland DVD reviewWhat if the animatronic characters at ShowBiz Pizza Place or Chuck E. Cheese came to life and started murdering their customers? That’s the basic premise behind Willy’s Wonderland. Nicolas Cage stars as an unnamed mute drifter who accepts a job cleaning up a rundown attraction in exchange for repairs to his car not realizing he’s actually the latest sacrifice to the evil robot mascots Willy Weasel, Arty Alligator, Knighty Knight, and the rest of their merry band.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer #25

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer #25 comic reviewAfter preventing a pair of vampires from assembling the Judge, the team follows Willow into a parallel Earth to where the original television show’s timeline is unfolding (and that Xander isn’t a vampire). Anya is along for the ride although she doesn’t reveal her true motivations to the Scoobies (are they called Scoobies in the alternate timeline?) and keeping them safe from the Lurkers looking to cleanse the world of those who don’t belong.

For the big worlds’ colliding event, Buffy the Vampire Slayer #25 is actually a bit dull as the new characters avoid their original counterparts and avoid any possible negative reaction to running into themselves. While it’s nice to get a few panels of the original group, there’s nothing all that interesting happening to them. And when all is said and done it doesn’t take much for Buffy to convince Willow to return home offering no climax to the story.

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The Host

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  • Title: The Host (2006)
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The Host movie reviewThrowback Thursday takes us back to 2006 and a South Korean horror film from one of today’s best directors. Although writer/director Bong Joon Ho has reached greater heights with Memories of Murder and Parasite, his 2006 horror film Gwoemul, or The Host, about a mutated creature running amok along the Han River is still quite entertaining. We see the cause of the creature in the movie’s first scene when an American scientist (Scott Wilson) orders dangerous chemicals destroyed and flushed into the river (in reference to U.S. Military’s actions in Seoul in 2000).

The plot mostly revolves around a single dysfunctional family made up of snack bar owner Park Gang-du (Kang-ho Song) his father (Byun Hee-bong), his daughter Hyun-seo (Ko Asung), his sister (Bae Doona), and his brother (Park Hae-il). Present during the first attack, Hyun-seo is presumed dead although she was actually only taken deep into the sewers by the creature as the family, when not fighting each other or running from inept police and health officials, mounts a search.

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Angel – Dear Boy

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  • Title: Angel – Dear Boy
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Angel - Dear Boy television review

Throwback Thursday takes us back to Los Angeles and the adventures of a vampire with a soul. The Second Season of Angel is fixated on Darla (Julie Benz) and the return of Angel’s sire. After being gaslit for several episodes, an already shaky Angel (David Boreanaz) discovers that not only is Darla alive but is human. We witness Wolfram & Hart’s plan to turn Angel evil by framing him as an unhinged obsessive responsible for the murder of Darla’s husband (an actor hired, and promptly killed by Wolfram & Hart). The crime leads to the return of Detective Kate Lockley (Elisabeth Röhm), a character that never quite worked and would exit the show just a few episodes later. “Dear Boy” also highlights Angel’s disgust at the seedier side of being a private investigator when he’s hired to spy on a cheating spouse supposedly abducted by aliens.

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