, 1973 (*****)fantastic Spanish horror full of breathtakingly surreal and kinky violence as a young man is let out of a mental hospital to return to Galicia in order to exact revenge on his aunt and her three daughters; I'd be very curious to hear from anyone who's seen the original 106 minute version
Bad Ronald
, 1974 (****)brilliantly twisted story from writer Jack Vance; after killing a young girl, Ronald, our young antihero, hides from justice in his very own house with the help of his clingy mother; things get complicated when she falls ill and dies in hospital...
The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
, 1976 (*****)Martin Sheen is suitably creepy and Jodie Foster is amazing as the precocious Rynn, a little girl like any young girl, she craves for love from adults, not to be protected nor preyed upon
Willard
, 1971 (****)thoroughly creepy story of an oddball son who befriends the rats in his cellar; there is a marvellous juxtaposition of the rats' and humans' behaviour, with predictably disfavourable results for the latter
Willard
, 2003 (*)this annoying remake is so heavily stylised as to render the original intent of the narrative completely redundant
A Nightmare On Elm Street
, 1984 (***)the original is still the franchise's best, but the film hasn't aged well, and Wes Craven never knows where to find the balance between suspenseful horror and silly cartoonery; Johnny Depp delivers a an early career-defining wooden performance
A Nightmare On Elm Street, 2010 (*)
expectedly appalling, hopelessly inept remake by Samuel Bayer, a heavy metal video director cum design squadder completely out of his depth
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Most of the TV series "Freddy's Nightmares" was terrible, but there were a few episodes (2 I can think of) that tried to up the icky factor by introducing an oedipal component to the plot (mother coming on sexually to son), that, coupled with its late 80's/early 90's american TV vibe, could literally induce pre-nausea ear-ringing.
One of those episodes was called "It's a Miserable Life". The other one I can't remember the title, but it involved parents returning unexpectedly to a teenage house party and somehow the father is decapitated by a bear trap.
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