That’s nuts. Imagine the odds you could have gotten 6 months ago on it being worst reviewed superhero movie of all time.
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Not only that, she gets surprisingly naked surprisingly quickly!
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I’ve seen both. I’m sure the 1956 version hit hard in its day. But the 1978 version still hits in modern times.
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Is this?
The calls are coming from inside the house.
I always think about the escalator scene of AWWIL when I’m in an empty subway station. Something just really hit a deep creepy chord with that one. Don’t remember a whole lot else about the movie.
Yes. I definitely looked her up afterwards because I couldn’t figure why she didn’t become more of a thing.
That’s the best shot of the movie by miles; it’s awesome. That whole chase through the subway/tube station is great.
Definitely understood afterward why Michael Jackson wanted John Landis to direct the Thriller music video.
Isn’t that
He knows you’re alone?
Nope it’s actually
When a stranger calls
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I wasted 2 hours and watched madame web on crave a few months back. If you know its not great going in, it exceeded my expectations? Plot is super dumb. Movie shouldnt exist because its for a D list character and they cant say “spiderman” at any point because of rights issues.
But its not as much of a trainwreck as I expected, its mostly just boring.
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Not that I voluntarily sign up to watch either of these things, but “just boring” seems even worse than trainwreck to me.
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I’m very confident Madam Web isn’t even close to being the worst Marvel move of all time, even pre-Joker.
Never seen it. Never will.
Me either, but there are some BAD comic book movies out there.
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They are all bad. 
Man, I want to see that someday.
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It’s got one of my favorite childhood actors as The Human Torch: Jay Underwood, who also played Eric Gibbs in The Boy Who Could Fly, as well as Chip in Not Quite Human.
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Dracula (1931)
I feel like the weirdest part of this experience is that I realized upon firing it up that I basically didn’t know the Dracula story at all after being alive for over 40 years. I knew the little bits of lore that inevitably make their way into your brain, and uhh I spent many hours playing 8-bit NES Castlevania, but I don’t think that helped fill me in too much.
Anyway, while this did not land as strongly for me as the other classic Universal monster movies I’ve seen (Frankenstein, The Invisible Man), I still had a good time with it and actually felt at the end of the 75-minute runtime that I really wished I could have gotten a more standard runtime and spent another half-hour or more in this world. It felt a bit overly truncated to me, but I also can easily imagine this score going up on rewatch. In the meantime, it’s going to inspire me to delve into another Dracula material to see other takes and to get more of the story filled in.
3.5/5
The Evil Dead (1981)
Absolutely did not work for me. The movie had me pretty interested up through the point when Cheryl gets attacked in the woods, which was a cool scene. From there, it pretty much veered off the rails and lost my good will almost entirely. I’ll give credit where it’s due to Sam Raimi: this is a well-shot movie. More so than most movies. The inventive camera shots continue to show up throughout, so it’s no secret that a worthwhile director was behind the camera.
Unfortunately, the compliments end there, including with regard to the visuals. The look of the possessed was entirely uninspired; the special effects, especially toward the climax of the movie, were silly and/or ugly most of the time. As someone who can absolutely be grossed out by graphic content, this movie somehow had the unique combo of attempting to be really gross and almost never eliciting a gross-out response from me; way more eye-rolls than actual cringes. Okay, the pencil in the ankle was a huge cringe, and one I actually respected, but that was way more the exception than the rule.
As to the plot? So much of this just felt like having nonsense spammed at me for a bunch of the run time. Now that I’ve seen it, I’m really taken aback by this movie’s rep.
2/5
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My understanding is that ED1 is not exactly acclaimed until it was essentially remade with ED2. I’ll be honest, I’ve only seen part 2 and Army of Darkness.
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Hmm, okay. I do know that there’s a broad consensus of part two being better. This experience sure didn’t motivate me to make it a priority, but maybe I’ll force myself to give it a shot at some point.
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