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.
November 2007 activity
Total Log Entries: 25
- Adam (8)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- Cullen (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (1)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (0)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (0)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (7)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (1)
- Victoria (1)
Total Comments: 6
- Ratatouille (0)
- Secrets From Another Place (0)
- Black Narcissus (0)
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (2)
- This Is England (0)
- Hail The Conquering Hero (0)
- American Gangster (0)
- Frozen (0)
- Paris Je T’Aime (0)
- Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man (0)
- Shake Hands With The Devil (0)
- Fido (0)
- American Gangster (3)
- The Zero Effect (0)
- Trapped in the Closet (0)
- The Big Lebowski (0)
- Begotten (0)
- Saw IV (0)
- Lions for Lambs (0)
- Death of a President (0)
- Stranded (0)
- Evil Dead II (0)
- The Evil Dead (0)
- The Goonies (0)
- Cemetery of Terror (1)
Full Archive
Cemetery of Terror / Cementerio del Terror / Mexico / 1985
In search of some All Hallows’ Eve excitement, a sextet of horny teens steals a body from the morgue, hefts it to the local graveyard, and invokes the dark lord to bring it back to life. Meanwhile, a second gang of kids decides trick or treating is for the birds, and that a creepy night in the selfsame cemetery is just the ticket to sate their need for a fright fix. Also boneyard bound is a Dr. Loomis-style psychiatrist who is convinced that the recently filched body was, in life, one of Satan’s favorite vessels, and that bringing it back to the land of the living is a bad idea.
While elements of Halloween, Friday the 13th, and other slasher benchmarks are in evidence (particularly in regards to the central slaughterer, a Michael-Jason hybrid, but with more anger and less discrimination), this excellent Mexican offering has a wonderful spirit all its own, skimming over potentially tedious elements like back-story and character development, and focusing on the good stuff—psychiatrists stealing police cars, awkward make-out sessions, self-inflicted axings, and yes, lots and lots of zombies.
If originally released in English, this determination to give the horror fans what they love would have undoubtedly secured the film a place within the canon of ’80s horror crowd-pleasers. Hopefully a recent DVD reissue, still in Spanish but with English subtitles, will attract Cemetery of Terror the following it deserves.
by Thomas Scalzo | Source: BCI Eclipse DVD
01 Nov 2007 12:28 PM | Comments (1)
David Carter / 5 November 2007 / 4:38 PM
What I found most interesting about Cemetery of Terror was the extended sequence of very young children being menaced by the killer. Though played as slapstick, I couldn’t help that American slasher cinema missed out on a potential goldmine of transgression by never having Jason Voorhees menace a group of nine-year-olds rather than middle-aged teenagers.