So I've gone to the dvd racks as I do every time I drop by. There's nothing even remotely worth picking up, same as the week before. Same as the day after. Nothing but shit, rehashed and regurgitated onto the screen once more. SyFy cranks out at least one of these pieces of tripe a week and they hit the shelves faster than a diarrhetic bowel movement. One of the latest was "Goblin"...
Good god what a computer generated mess that was. I never thought a goblin would be portrayed as a seven foot tall pumpkinhead ripoff with a tiny skull and a cloak that apparently gives him short range teleporting abilities. Needless to say this dreadful crapfest was every bit as vomit-inducing as its titular character was supposed to be. As I flushed this later disaster from my screen so did I flush any hope that horror will ever be the same. John Carpenter's "The Thing" is no more, it has been replaced with dumb as hell creature flicks, constant reboots of films hardly ten years past and useless torture porn. Even the monsters are underwhelming. With the advance of the imagery we can create, we should have been able to truly stagger an audience. Instead we get a ten year leap backwards in special effects with a brand new boot in the ass of the Nightmare on Elm Street series... When it was done better almost thirty years ago, is it over? Are the good films dead?
Thankfully I can answer this question in a positive light with an in depth review starting with "The Burrowers" coming soon. Monster fans can rejoice, and atmosphere freaks can revel in what I've come to regard as a true step back into the good path of the horror films of yesterday.
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