How a gruesome series of sadistic slashers whose sole concern is setting up, with our complicity in the premonition, chain-reaction sequences of unfettered butchery can be … fun is entirely testament to the filmmakers.
And this is by a mile the best yet.
The first one in the franchise, and it’s great ‘fun’.
I read some of the reviews after this viewing and it’s almost universally panned, the main theme that it wastes its premise, though my hero Roger Ebert liked it.
He’s correct. It’s spooky, unpredictable, for the most part well acted for a teen flick, and Candyman is in it.
And Steve Stifler features but unfortunately doesn’t li ….
Wanderings and ... wonderings. 