Hands down the best time I've had at the movies all year. It is a fucking blast!

Basically The Goonies with a demonic killer clown.

The kid from Stranger Things steals the entire movie. His one liners were absolute gold. My sides were acing. He says this one line after the rock fight and I was crying real tears.

All of the kids were exceptional. Every single kid knocks it out of the park. Everyone has their own distinct personalities, characteristics, quips, and quirks. The chemistry between the group was outstanding. There's so much great banter among one another I haven't seen this type of group comradery between kids since The Goonies and Stand Bye Me. Mind you, those movies…

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Pitch-Black danger; the first "'New Line Cinema' in spirit" horror joint. Successfully embodies the commitment to shockers of the 80s while ignoring, but not condemning, the ever-present faux-tactility of the 90s and their rebellion to a growing canon of Horror movie-making. Hiring Chung-Hoon Chung as its cinematographer was truly a blessing. It would make for a perfect capper of a Halloween night with Jason Goes to Hell, New Nightmare, and The Mangler, and it's just brimming with aesthetic creativity entirely concerned with genre replication. It goes far and away past 'homage', severing the Spielbergian myth at its elbow with a cleaver straight out of In the Mouth of Madness. A little uneven tonally, but so is the source, and…

CW: brief reference to CSA

I have questions.

Are all of the adults in Derry complicit in this (yes, painting of a woman dropping the baby in the well, I saw you) or just incredibly incompetent? How is an accident that killed 88 children something that has to be discovered and not, you know, the subject of a yearly memorial service that all of the kids except the new one would at least be somewhat familiar with? How is a pillar of (magically floating) bodies and detritus under a large vent letting in sunlight something the police or other authorities were unable to find? How did they never search the sewers? How is it a bunch of kids were able…

2017's may be one of the most hyped of films (outside of the superhero genre that is) since, well... maybe "Inception". For a decent amount of time everyone was raving about it... even more picky horror fans, such as myself, came to be smitten by it. (Fair eating, there are going to be a lot of unintentional puns relating to the title of this film in this review... so bear with me) However, despite all the press and praise this film got, I really just kind of ignored it. In an area when remakes, sequels, bloated film chains, and adaptations are all the rage, you'll have to excuse me for passing up on yet another film which falls into this…

After a couple of viewings of this film, I have to say that I still really enjoy it. I find this retelling of Stephen King’s Novel of the same name. Before I get into it, the official synopsis is in the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shapeshifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town.

To lead off, I thought he director Andy Muschietti and the writers, Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga and Gary Dauberman, did a great job at keeping the tone and feel of the novel, but updating it to 1989. Where the original was more faithful to the novel, this…