It's
an excellent horror flick.
Not exact matches
This is, overwhelmingly, a silly
horror flick unconcerned with its silliness: Throughout, it spends a lot of screen time digging into exposition and explanation, including having its American characters interrogate the rural Mexican ones, who conveniently speak — and write — in
excellent English.
Though it retains the
horror elements of the first film, Cameron's quasi-war
flick builds on that with some
excellent action sequences and the introduction of an even cooler villain with the Alien Queen.
Writer / director Michael Dougherty has given movie buffs everywhere a gift, not just in terms of crafting an
excellent film (one that's assuredly destined for cult classic status), but in granting us the opportunity to surprise the hell out of all of our friends on Halloween night with a trippy little
horror flick that they know nothing about.
This week we yap a ton about
horror movies (because this episode premieres on Halloween), and we also get into the
excellent Jake Gyllenhaal
flick NIGHTCRAWLER and Alexandre Aja's HORNS.