It is, but boy does it basically suck. Mind you, the entire series is not very good. I think when I ran this series, I only really liked part 6 and part 10(uh, X). There were a few moments here and there aside from those ones, but I found Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street to be better series from the same time/era.
I agree Halloween is much better than Friday the 13th.
Halloween’s narrative is more sophisticated and has better characters.
Friday the 13th is basically see teenager then slash teenager. I enjoyed it more in college compared to today.
Pet Sematary 1989 Fred Gwynne, Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby
On AMC
Sometimes Dead is Better
I always enjoy this film. Fred Gwynne is excellent in the role of Jud. Midkiff is good as the father that slowly descends into madness. I didn’t like Denise Crosby in this film. She is so wooden and unlikeable.
My grandmother had a similar cat named Blue Boy. Except his eyes didn’t glow. 
B+
Roofman
Somewhat recommended.
I slightly dislike the movie more knowing it was based on a true story, which I have to think has a much darker truth than this one.
As it is, the movie is a pretty cute one about a criminal(though a nice one!) that escapes prison and tries to hide in a Toys R Us for as long as possible…while maintaining a life with a girl he is interested in.
Channing Tatum is charming and Kirsten Dunst, as always, gives a great performance. She’s the best thing in this one, as it is easy to be sympathetic to her about how he is using her.
Good one, not great.
It sounds like the truth isn’t that dark either.
Good, I hope so. I kept feeling like I was watching the cleaned up version of it.
Pet Sematary Two 1992 Edward Furlong, Anthony Edwards, Clancy Brown
Mary Lambert returned to direct the Sequel
It’s ok. The sequel is more gruesome and shocking. Clancy Brown is very good as the evil sheriff. Clancy’s sheriff is the most interesting character in the film.
Furlong (Terminator 2) delivers another good performance.
Btw in a chin off contest. Who wins Jay Leno or Clancy Brown? 
C-
I wonder if I should go back. I think I only saw the two recent Pet Sematary movies.
The Pet Sematary films are on Paramount+
I still need to watch the remakes.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Recommended.
I had never seen Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula movie, so my wife and I watched it tonight. There is a lot to love, especially visually and with the stylistic editing. Everyone is really good in the movie…except Keanu Reeves, who appears to be terribly miscast in this movie. To make things worse, his hair goes greyish mid-movie, but it is inconsistently colored even with in scenes.
Anyway, it’s pretty good and Gary Oldman is a great Dracula. It has a good score and there is just a lot to love with this movies style and visual presentation.
Fun (to me) fact: Some scenes were filmed in my neighborhood!
Did they refurbish an old Toys R US? It looked authentic.
I’m not sure about the Toy R Us scenes, but there IS a shutdown TRU in a nearby town. The scenes they filmed in my ‘hood were with his character running through a suburban housing development. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but the filming days were a big to do here.
Good News
Highly recommended.
Korean movie, English dub available and it streams on Netflix. It’s about a 1970 plane hijacking by Japanese Communists who want to take the plane North to Pyongyang…even though they did not realize the pilots would not know how to get to Pyongyang without a lot of help…which the hijackers can not provide.
It’s mainly a comedy about people in stressful situations and how bureaucracy makes things difficult.
I really liked it. I laughed more than I expected I would. I recommend checking it out, but at 2 hours and 10 minutes, it was 20 minutes or so too long.
Frankenstein (2025)
It should be titled Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein (this is a good thing). Go see this on the largest screen you can find. It’s a Netflix production, so it probably isn’t going to be in theaters very long.
It’s a retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (did you know that according ti Wikipedia, there have been " 423 known feature films, 204 short films, 78 TV series and 287 TV episodes" featuring some version of Frankenstein’s monster?). It is not exactly the Shelley original, nor is it based in any way on the classic James Whale film. It is, however, truer to the Shelley original than I’ve seen in quite a while.
The pairing of Del Toro’s ability to portray the grotesque sympathetically, not shy away from horrific elements, and the beauty with which he imbues the most mundane scenes in his movies, the Frankenstein tale is a perfect fit to his direction. The cinematography is exquisite and should be appreciated on the biggest screen possible. The cast, particularly the Doctor (Oscar Isaac) and the Monster (Jacob Elordi) are perfect, Mia Goth also stands out in a smaller role as the love interest.
At 2 1/2 hours, it doesn’t seem that long and there are not a lot of filler or expository scenes (or at least, the expository scenes are so well done they don’t seem like filler). Based on the fact that the Nuart theater’s Sunday afternoon showing was sold out (and the significant amount of applause for credits like Editor), I’d say this is going to be prominent title during awards season.
I had a sad reflection as the credits rolled. With the recent attempt to franchise Universal’s monsters, including Frankenstein, this movie highlights how formulaic and pedestrian they are (yes, eve the good ones when compared to this movie). Wouldn’t it be wonderful if these studios would turn these films over to creative, innovative directors like Del Toro and give them a free hand. The sad thought is the impossibility of this happening. Even the best directors of franchise movies are hamstrung by the constraints they have to create under.
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They already gave Del Toro two big-budget franchises: the Hellboy movies, and Pacific Rim, and they really, really wanted him to direct the Hobbit. The results were mixed, both commercially and artistically.
That’s one of my favorites, along with the original Salem’s Lot and Needful Things. The remakes of Pet Sematary and Salem’s Lot are awful.
Wolfs (2024) (AppleTV). George Clooney and Brad Pitt play “cleaners” (make embarrassing crime scene evidence go away) who are inadvertently assigned to the same case. It then gets complicated, and there are chase scenes and shoot-outs & stuff.
(I wondered if the title was a nod to Mr. Wolf, a character in Pulp Fiction in the same line of work. apparently not.)
Both leads bring considerable charm, and you might think this would be a fun action romp along the lines of the Ocean’s 11 franchise. But no. The plot is really thin and our leads mostly just scowl and snipe at each other. Weak.
The Woman in Cabin 10 (Netflix, 2025) The RT’s scores are dreadful 28/32 (apparently the book is very good so everyone felt the film let the story down I guess) but my wife and I thought it was watchable. I’d recommend it for those desperate for a new cozy date night thriller. I don’t ever need to see it again and no one must see this ever.