Dean (6921 KP) rated The Vampire Diaries - Season 1 in TV
Jun 10, 2017
@Stalker - Season 1
This has the same look and vibe to it. I was worried this might be like @Twilight (2008) but it's much better than that. If you like Vampire tales you should like this. It's now on Netflix.
Barry Newman (204 KP) rated I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) in Movies
Mar 29, 2020
Cursed (2005)
6.4
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In Los Angeles, siblings Ellie (Christina Ricci) and Jimmy (Jesse Eisenberg) come across an accident...
The Faculty (1998)
7.2
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To the students at Harrington High, the principal and her posse of teachers have always been a...
The Vampire Diaries - Season 1
8.8
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The series focuses on the fictional town of Mystic Falls, Virginia, that is charged with...
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
7.2
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When four friends accidentally hit and kill a man on a road at night, they start to panic and decide...
Slasher Horror cool soundtrack
The Vampire Diaries
8.1
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A few months after their parents are killed in a tragic car accident, Elena Gilbert and her brother,...
LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) in Movies
Mar 2, 2021
This film is rightly considered a bit of a classic these days, and there's really not a whole bunch to complain about. It has well written characters, a decent cast, a visually creepy villain, an engaging whodunit plot, one of the best chase scenes in slasher movie history (that's right), and still manages to stand on its own two feet in a world where it's constantly compared to Scream.
I find this to be an unfair comparison. Beyond the 90s setting, teen characters, slasher tropes, and shared writer in Kevin Williamson, there's not much else that ties them together. Scream is of course a fantastic horror, but relishes in being satire, whereas IKWYDLS is a straight shooting horror. Its the exact kind of film that Scream takes aim at, but it still manages to be a decent slasher without feeling silly, and delivers some well earned jump scares for good measure. I also really enjoy it's fishing town setting and the hole movie is accompanied by a hilariously epic score courtesy of John Debney. It's great.
I will always have a lot of time for IKWYDLS, overshadowed by some of its contemporaries, but a hugely satisfying and entertaing horror in its own right.
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2084 KP) rated It All Began with a Scream in Books
Nov 11, 2021 (Updated Nov 11, 2021)
Despite my normal cozy mystery reads, I am obsessed with the Scream franchise, so as soon as I learned about this book, I knew I had to get it. I appreciated the interviews and research that went into this book. There were fewer bits of trivia I didn’t know about the original movie, but the sections on Screams 3 and 4 made me understand some of my issues with those films better. I did feel that the writing lacked a bit of passion that kept me out, and many of the quotes could have been cleaned up for clarity to make the reading better. I would have really appreciated it if the author had included a person’s full name and their position in the crew more than the first time he mentioned them. There are a handful of typos throughout the book, and that wouldn’t bother me, except that each time my alma mater was mentioned by name, it was listed as Santa Rosa high school instead of Santa Rosa High School. Yes, it’s silly, but it bugged me. I also take exception to the producer interviewed about that controversy saying not getting to film at the school was censorship. While there is much to be said on the subject (and both sides behaved poorly during the controversy), it was never censorship. Overall, the writing issues keep me from giving the book a full recommendation, but I am glad I read it.
