Filmland - Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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For those not clued into the world of video games, Resident Evil has just released its 7^th installment under the title Biohazard.  This year’s latest installment in the zombie video game series comes with one foot in the world of cinema, however, as it’s been released around the same time as the latest Resident Evil film The Final Chapter.  Now, I’m not here to go on and on about the complete failure of adaptation that is the Resident Evil films, mainly because, much like the games, following the plot of Resident Evil is a convoluted and deeply unrewarding exercise. 

However, RE7, as it’s known, also draws from the world of film.  It’s a slow descent into horror based around a monstrous backwoods cannibal family in the American wilderness, a premise drawn heavily from the horror classic Texas Chainsaw Massacre.  As such, I thought this would be the perfect chance to dive into the strangest entry in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise to see how the southern fried horror flick and Resident Evil’s corporate zombapocalypse stylings have a bigger point of overlap than you’d think. 

Week of Review - Psycho II

Welcome back to Week of Review where we’re building up to tomorrow’s premiere of American Horror Story: Hotel.  When discussing the incredibly limited niche of hotel horror there are basically two elephants you all but have to address.  The most obvious we’ll be getting to tomorrow but today we’re taking a look at the other reigning kind of the genre Psycho.  Given Psycho’s incredible popularity now it’s easy to forget just what a massively important film it was and how much it changed the horror landscape forever.  Despite being a flawed film in a lot of key aspects there’s no doubt it’s Alfred Hitchcock’s most influential and enduring classic and is the movie a lot of folks point to as the first quasi-Slasher flick.  The film was based off of a book of the same name by Robert Block, which drew heavy inspiration from the crimes of Ed Gein, the same disturbed criminal whose actions would later inspire The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.  Given that impressive pedigree it really shouldn’t be so surprising the film got a sequel.