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Face to face

Another day, another chainsaw massacre. (Unmarked Spoilers)

Melody (Sarah Yarkin) is a young chef who has traveled to a small town of Harlowe along with her younger sister Lila (Elsie Fisher) and others. They’re planning on auctioning off the property of the town, but then they meet Virginia (Alice Krige), a resident still living in an orphanage with her son, Leatherface (Mark Burnham). After getting into a dispute about who owns the property, Virginia has a heart attack and later dies.

The saw remains the same

Phew, now I’m all caught up (Unmarked Spoilers)

The article which you are about to read is an account of eight horror films spanning six decades. Each installment concerns the exploits of the masked killer Leatherface and his murderous family. In light of a new entry coming out in less than a week, I decided to sit down and watch the entire series from start to finish, which I’d never done before. This is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise.

Be my victim

Say my name. (Unmarked Spoilers)

Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is an artist living with his art gallery director girlfriend Brianna (Teyonah Parris). Searching for inspiration for his next project, Anthony meets Cabrini-Green resident William Burke (Colman Domingo), introducing him to the legend of the Candyman. The vengeful spirit of a black man killed due to racial prejudice, Candyman kills anyone who says his name five times in front of a mirror with his hook hand. And thanks to Anthony spreading the word, he’s back.

Sweets to the sweet

Say my name (Unmarked Spoilers)

Candyman, the writing on the wall. Candyman, the whisper in the classroom. Candyman, not the one that mixes it with love and makes the world taste good. Candyman, the one that was created by Clive Barker for his short story “The Forbidden” and later adapted by Bernard Rose for his 1992 film Candyman.

Warwick

…gets billed third despite playing the main and title character. Can you believe that? (Unmarked Spoilers)

Willow was a 1988 fantasy movie starring Warwick Davis, between his other two most famous roles of Wicket and the leprechaun. The film was the brainchild of George Lucas, who came up with the story. The film was written by Bob Dolman and directed by Ron Howard. I’d be curious to find out how much they were following an outline and how much was them trying to emulate Lucas’s most famous work.

Scary Movie

Not my favorite, but still pretty good. (Massive Unmarked Spoilers)

The fifth installment of the Scream trilogy opens with Tara Carpenter (Jenna Ortega) stuck home alone when she hears her landline ringing. When she picks up the phone, she’s greeted by a voice (Roger L. Jackson) and then attacked by someone wearing a familiar costume. The most surprising thing about all that is how the Carpenter’s even have a landline in this day and age.

Charm

“It’s all about the legacy they left with me, it’s destiny.” (Unmarked Spoilers)

The 60th film in the Disney Animated Canon, with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, concerns the Madrigal family, who possess a miracle candle that gives them magical powers, a living house called the Casita, and created the surrounding village. One day, the magic starts to disappear as mysterious cracks appear in Casita. Mirabel (Stephanie Beatriz) begins to investigate but runs into problems because she’s seen as kind of a loser. Why? She’s the first “Disney Princess” to have glasses, and only losers wear glasses.

A child’s plaything

A review of Chucky season 1. (Unmarked Spoilers)

Chucky is the latest iteration of the long-running Child’s Play series. Each installment concerns serial killer Charles Lee Ray aka Chucky (Brad Dourif). Right before his death, he transferred his soul into a doll, eventually learning how to split his soul into multiple vessels at once. And now he’s back in his hometown of Hackensack, New Jersey.

…Who you gonna call?

The movie fans have been waiting for (Unmarked Spoilers)

Phoebe (McKenna Grace) is a young prodigy who moves into the home of her recently deceased grandfather’s house along with her brother Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and mom Callie (Carrie Coon). There Phoebe discovers evidence that said grandfather was one of the Ghostbusters, and despite being a genius, her first reaction upon seeing an old video isn’t saying, “you know, that Egon (Harold Ramis) looks a lot like me.”

…In your neighborhood…

The underrated sequel (Unmarked Spoilers)

The OG Ghostbusters are back, baby. You got Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Ackroyd), Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis), and Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson). After saving the world by besting a literal god, everything should be coming up roses, right? Wrong. Much like Men in Black 2 or Alien 3, this is one of those sequels that undoes the happy ending of the previous film to allow for another movie.