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

Total Comments: 6


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Evil Dead II / The Sequel to the Ultimate Experience in Grueling Terror / USA / 1987

As I remarked to some friends after seeing this, at the Brattle, for the fourth time in four subsequent Halloweens, Evil Dead II is a film I have essentially memorized, yet each time I see it I have a different favorite part. This time around it’s the scene in which all the living room dressings are laughing hysterically at Ash, and the moment at which his own hysteria escalates into outright terror. Ash just stands there with a sort of delirious moan as the camera pivots around him, the room filled with cackling light fixtures and hardware, revealing no exit. And in one of this film’s multiple climaxes, Ash aims his shotgun directly toward you and fires.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: 35mm print
05 Nov 2007 12:03 PM | Submit Comment


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