The Children of the Corn (1984)

Believe it or not, I hadn't seen The Children of the Corn until this week. Weird, right? I feel like it's just one of those movies where you sort of wind up watching it (or one of its numerous sequels) on SyFy (or SciFi more likely, since I feel like they played it more frequently before they changed the name in 2009) when nothing else is on. But somehow I missed that mind-vacuum in favour of sleep or homework or taped episodes of The X-Files. I decided to finally sit down and watch it at the urging of a friend, and I have to say, it's great. And by "great," I mean horrible. And by "horrible," I mean great. It's just one of those movies. While...

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The Phantom (1996)

I watched The Phantom becuase it’s on Netflix Instant and I had been searching for it for ages. I saw it when it came out on VHS in 1996 or ‘97 (I don’t remember when, but it was released in ‘96 and I’m assuming it was a quick-to-video kind of thing because it made exactly negative money). My only drive to watch this movie (I wouldn’t call it a “film”) was a strikingly traumatic childhood memory of a certain scene, which will be detailed below. I need to preface this review by saying that I really did search high and low for this film for several years due to the traumatic scene detailed below. I have watched the first half hour of every...

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