*Note: This year
for our annual 31 Days of Halloween marathon of horror movie reviews,
rather than write about old favorites, we're focusing on modern
horror films that haven't had a wide theatrical release. So for the
entire month of October, we will be dealing with horror fare that you
can find in the “New Release” section of Netflix or (if you still
have one) your local video store. So instead of nostalgic
appreciations and recommendations, this promises to be more of a “the
good, the bad, and the ugly” kind of affair. Hopefully more good
than bad and ugly, but that remains to be seen.
Review by Bob
Ignizio
When I decided to
dive head first into more or less randomly watching new release
horror films for this year's “31 Days of Halloween” blogathon, I
fully expected to see a lot of bad movies. So far, though, I've had
pretty good luck. No real classics, although Ti West's THESACRAMENT came close, but overall I've seen a fairly entertaining
batch of fright flicks.
Well, luck has to
run out sooner or later, and with Joe Swanberg's 24 EXPOSURES
it runs out hard. In some ways, this is more like some mid sixties
roughie than a true horror film. In those films, back when depictions
of nudity and sex could still get a filmmaker, distributor, or
exhibitor into legal hot water, it tended to be safer to make movies
in which naked women were tortured and/or killed than ones in which
they had sex.
