Basement of Ghoulish Decadence: Why Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet is everything wrong with modern slashers...

Thursday, June 16

So Blood Night took awhile to get distribution in the States...I think I can peg why...

Jayson Kennedy said...: And before anyone freaks out about the "token black" thing, it's not that African Americans shouldn't be in slashers, it's just that this waste continues the prevailing trend of throwing a token example in with the group of friends that doesn't do anything than add to the body count. Another cliche for the heap.; 6/16/11, 8:11 PM
Anonymous said...: Thanks for saving me $5. Almost rented this on VOD.; 6/16/11, 8:12 PM
Jayson Kennedy said...: It's tough to say how a person will react. It's not unwatchable, just so freakin' much of what we've already seen before done better elsewhere that it seems like a waste of 90 minutes. Although even as something completely unoriginal, it's still not very entertaining.

I seriously couldn't stand all the flashy editing. It's like instead of really honing the story, scares, and the characters; it uses all this bullshit sizzle cutting to try and cover up how cheap and boring everything is.; 6/16/11, 8:20 PM
Jayson Kennedy said...: And honestly, it seems like Harris and Moseley only signed on because they get a "dramatic" monologue each.; 6/16/11, 8:22 PM
The Bloody Pit of Horror said...: Well... you managed to cover most of the reasons why I decided to limit my blog to the years 1950-1990! Even many of the bad movies from the time period I'm covering have their own charm. Today the selection seems endless but the gems are few and far between.; 6/16/11, 9:13 PM