Horror Power Ranking List - July 21, 2008
As the summer wears on, we're getting closer and closer to horror season, which means a few early stragglers, like Mirrors, and Midnight Meat Train (both back on the List this week) will be hitting theaters soon. But first, I have to convince you all to go see The X-Files and The Mummy, which it seems like most of you don't want to do. You're wrong, and I'll tell you why:
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| Rank | LW | Movie (or Comic, etc.) | |
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe Fans have forgotten how good the show really was and are starting to doubt that the new movie. But I can name two things that make this movie number one on my list: Mulder and Scully. |
| 2 |
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Resident Evil: Degeneration I'm a complete sucker for this series. The first one sucked, and I couldn't wait to see the second one. The second one was worse, and I went to the third on opening night. This one is animated, has no Milla, and yet, I'm still salivating. |
| 3 |
5 |
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor I got into a long debate about the line from the trailer where Brendan Fraser looks at the camera and says, "Here we go again!" You're either on board with that line (like I am), or you're not seeing this movie. |
| 4 |
1 |
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army I know I went to bat for Hellboy the past two weeks, but there's something else not appropriate to put on this horror list that is similar to Hellboy II, but better. You know, the big movie that came out this weekend? Mamma Mia? |
| 5 |
3 |
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Repo: The Genetic Opera I made the terrible mistake of checking out the Repo homepage. Not because it crashed my computer, but because the songs play automatically, and are now completely stuck in my head. Thanks a lot, Repo. |
| 6 |
7 |
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Friday the 13th Though I'm still a little unsure why we need a Friday the 13th remake, I'm curious if anyone else saw the first official pic of the new, beefcake Jason and thought... "Yeah!!! Time to get slashin'!" Maybe that was just me... |
| 7 |
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Midnight Meat Train It's unfortunate that Meat Train, which comes out in a few short weeks, doesn't have us as excited as Repo, or even the iffy Friday the 13th remake. So here's a suggestion: Have midnight showings on subways. There. I just made you a million dollars. |
| 8 |
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Mirrors I'm bringing Mirrors back on the list for a few simple reasons: Alexandre Aja is a good director; Kiefer Sutherland is a good-ish actor; and the image of Amy Smart tearing her own jaw off just keeps making me laugh, and laugh... |
| 9 |
9 |
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A Nightmare on Elm Street This holds even on the list only because the idea of remaking Nightmare hasn't left my mind all week. And the reason is, the original Nightmare is one of the only slasher films that's also really good. If they're going to do this, please do it well. |
| 10 |
8 |
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Twilight With the second trailer now out and giving us a clearer look at the plot, I have to say... There's something supremely silly about a movie named Twilight, which is about vampires, that almost exclusively takes place during the day. |
Totally not seeing the next Mummy film. Why?
Sure, those "Smallville" guys can research actual history...but they screw it up. Mythology? There's no such thing as three headed Chinese dragons. They're just getting it confused with the Hydra and Cerebus, which are GREEK creatures. Now, if these guys don't do as much research as Sommers does and make it work, I don't have any faith in it. I just don't have any confidence in them or Cohen. Heck, I've been known to boo Cohen when that trailer comes on.
And not being able to get Rachel...bad sign.
I am a HUGE Sommersverse fan, which is why my attention is turned to "G.I. JOE".