Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by djprobed (R) on June 15, 2004 at 13:02:46

In Reply to: House of 1000 Corpses posted by DWPC on June 14, 2004 at 10:37:12:

I thought this was pretty funny. In fact, I'll go one further and say it exemplfies one of two branches of a new genre I will call "Nouveau Splatter." HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES picks up where Argento, Morrissey/Warhol and TEXAS CHANISAW MASSACRE left off (i.e. supernatural and/or ultraviolent). The other branch is typefied by the SCREAM franchise and the FINAL DESTINATION flicks, which follow in the footsteps of teen-splatter franchises like FRIDAY THE 13TH, HALLOWEEN and NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET.

The hardest I've laughed in recent memory was when the blonde chick in the first FINAL DESTINATION film gets hit by that bus. The plate glass falling on the kid in the second one was almost as funny.

djprobed