The MacGuffin

Friday the 13th (1980): Made as a Halloween rip-off, but it’s a good rip-off with interesting characters and an intriguing mystery. 8/10

The Unseen (1980): Very slow film plods along for an hour before ‘The Unseen’ is revealed… to be a big retarded guy in a diaper. 3/10

Abominable: The best Bigfoot movie around. Plays like a creature feature take on Rear Window, but with more boobs and blood. 7/10

Let the Right One In: One of the best films of the decade. A great mixture of a suspenseful vampire story with a story of first love. 9/10

Return of Count Yorga: Good vampire attack scenes make this better than the original, but the plot doesn’t make a lick of sense. 4/10

Count Yorga Vampire: Started production as a softcore porn, but was switched to horror without changing the script. Very cheap looking. 3/10

The Fourth Kind: All tension is lost as the film tries to mix a found footage mockumentary with a dramatic alien abduction narrative. 3/10

The Box (2009): Even if the plot eventually goes a bit off the rails, this thriller boasts great characterization and direction. 8/10

Halloween II (2009): Rob Zombie seems to want to destroy everything we like in a Halloween film. Some decent moments, but not many. 4/10

Halloween (2007): Half hillbilly origin story for Michael Myers, half remake. Not terrible, but unnecessary. Why redo a classic? 5/10