"I really like this over the shoulder shot but can we bring the camera down just a little lower....a little lower...a little lower... THERE! Hold that aaaaaand, Action!"
Nice write ups. I may have to start watching a few of these. The TCM franchise is like the Halloween franchise. After the first two or three I kind of gave up on them. Checking imdb I did watch the one with Jessica Biel but don't remember anything about it.
The first one is so good, it's arguably the most unsettling horror film ever. Watching it is exhausting. It's on my short list of movies I watch at least once year. The second has some great characters, ups the gore a little and is pretty funny. If I'm gonna knock it at all it's that Stretch gets a little too shrieky but I still liked Caroline Williams as Stretch. Really liked Bill Moseley as Chop Top. I haven't seen much of the franchise but it's hard to see a better performance in any of the films than what he gives here. He's creepy, he's gross and he's damn funny.
I did just watch the newest one pretty much because of your review and Rockatansky's comment about steady gore. For a second or most of the film actually, I thought they cg'd a young Dianne Franklin into the movie. The movie was okay. Had some nice gore, wasn't boring, there was quite a bit of stupid going on but that's par for the course. The first kill was the best. Towards the beginning they did a wide shot of all the people arriving and kind of hanging out in the street and I kind of jokingly said "Hehe, look at that....there's gonna be a lot of people dying in this one." Ooh, that's a Bingo!