Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

This is now the coldest of takes and I know it, but for years I planned to only own Halloween and Halloween III. When I took some movie posters home from my dad’s time running movie theaters (sadly now lost in a move sometime), I got a Halloween II poster in the bunch. I decided […]

Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992)

I most often talk about second sequels—third movies in a series, if anyone else has their brain snap on relative numbers like mine does—in terms of my “rule of thirds”, wherein third films go commercial, lighten their tone, and for some reason think that being a third film means they need a bigger audience, despite […]

Hollow Man II (2006)

I don’t watch an awful lot of direct-to-video sequels. I don’t own a lot of them to watch. I’ve now started to pick up a few simply because of “set”-type Blu-ray releases that stick them in for extra perceived value in “deluxe editions”. I’ve watched a couple over time, mostly the sequels to Mimic. Mimic […]

Hollow Man (2000) [Director’s Cut]

By the time Hollow Man was released, I’d developed an affection for the films of Paul Verhoeven, however few I’d seen—and however possibly-questionable my youthful interpretations thereof. I remember renting it and being somewhat underwhelmed, but I later bought a DVD of the director’s cut to see if my feelings might change. I never got […]

Highlander (1986)

So, my plan to watch first-in-franchise films for the first month of the year is resulting in a lot of re-watching. For some strange reason, many of the series films I own are films I’ve already seen. Go figure how that happened, right? I’ve seen this one a number of times, though my first exposure […]

THEM [aka ‘Hellmaster’] (1992)

The implied makeup effects on this one—and the amazing die-cut cover from Vinegar Syndrome—drew me in, despite my reluctance to approach a VS release of a 1990s almost-direct-to-video horror movie. VS is not exactly Criterion, Arrow, or even Scorpion Releasing: they definitely consciously and deliberately release bad movies (their own advertising says so!). Shelly O’Deane […]

The Hangover (2009)

Modern comedies and I are not friends. I avoid basically all of them, as I have an allergy to the U.S.’s most popular senses of humour, and have done for something like 25 years now. It doesn’t exclude all comedies, nor all American comedies, of course—but generally the most popular I’ve found dire in their […]

ハウス (Hausu) [House] (1977)

Another one where I’m uncertain of how, exactly, I came to it, I’ve been hearing more and more about it as time has gone on. I decided I should get around to watching it this year as part of my glut of horror films to celebrate October, and knew I was in for “something weird”, […]

Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)

There are a handful of movies that have followed me for something closer to the majority of my life–some that reach back to before I can recall, and others that appear after watershed moments and from then on. Hellbound is from the latter group: in my “true” youth–single digits, and perhaps a bit past–I couldn’t […]

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)

I remember this one coming out, and I remember it being another that just sort of captured childhood imaginations at the time. I suspect that, like most sequels, I was less likely to see it in theatres (because that meant subjecting my parents to sequels). I definitely saw at least parts of it though–even if […]