Over the course of reviewing altogether too many direct-to-dvd horror films, I’ve been steadily building the argument that today’s crop of low-budget slasher films are the cultural heirs of the similarly low-budgeted sci-fi and horror films of the 50s and 60s, but have replaced their generally fun spirit with a meaner and more malevolent one. Midnight Movie has made that argument better than a review ever could. A supposedly reverently campy and fun film that quickly devolves into yet another carnival of abuses, Movie takes everything that’s supposed to be fun about horror and processes it through everything that’s become just plain hateful about the genre.
The plot of Midnight Movie is astonishingly similar to that of an Are You Afraid Of The Dark? episode, in which a couple of kids working at a movie theater run into a vampire monster (a clear reference to Nosferatu...
The plot of Midnight Movie is astonishingly similar to that of an Are You Afraid Of The Dark? episode, in which a couple of kids working at a movie theater run into a vampire monster (a clear reference to Nosferatu...
- 3/17/2010
- by Anders Nelson
- JustPressPlay.net
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