Screening Log
This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.
March 2005 activity
Total Log Entries: 38
- Adam (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- Cullen (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (0)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (2)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (10)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (12)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 14
- Police Academy (0)
- Mannequin (2)
- Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary (0)
- Downfall (0)
- Millions (0)
- Trouble Every Day (1)
- The Great Ziegfeld (0)
- The Jerk (0)
- Stripes (0)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (0)
- Torchy Blane in Chinatown (0)
- Control Room (0)
- Monterey Pop: The Outtake Performances (2)
- Gimme Shelter (0)
- Duck Soup (0)
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! (0)
- The Work of Director Michel Gondry (0)
- The Serpent and the Rainbow (1)
- Dracula’s Daughter (0)
- The Devil’s Nightmare (0)
- The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (0)
- In This Our Life (0)
- Song of the Exile (0)
- Pierrot le Fou (1)
- L’Eclisse (0)
- 976-EVIL (0)
- The Truman Show (0)
- Dumb and Dumber (0)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (0)
- The Tales of Hoffmann (0)
- Tropical Malady (0)
- Stop Making Sense (0)
- Sweet Charity (0)
- Weekend at Bernie’s II (2)
- M (5)
- Dear Frankie (0)
- Krull (0)
- The Hanging Woman (0)
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976-EVIL / USA / 1988
Robert Englund’s first, and as far as I know only, feature film directorial effort, 976-EVIL appears, at first glance, to be a horror movie about phones that kill people, but turns out to be a horror movie about a guy who uses phones to possess the living and make them kill people. A minor distinction, but an important one, as killer phone movies (yes, there are more than one) are generally fun to watch, and demonic possession movies are often tedious and unfrightening. Sadly, 976-EVIL falls into the latter category, offering little more than scene after scene of late-80s punks playing cards, and a late-80s nerd trying to break into the cool-kid clique. A few interesting special effects sequences near the end, including an entire house transformed into the frozen gateway to hell, can’t save this picture from being lumped together with the scads of unremarkable horror being produced during the last years of the decade.
by Thomas Scalzo | Source: Comcast MoviePass Feature
16 Mar 2005 5:27 PM | Submit Comment
