Horror Queen

One of my favorite things about this documentary is when they take a few minutes to discuss April Fool’s Day, one of my favorite horror movies of all time. One of the men states fairly loudly that it isn’t a cheat, but that the makers of High Tension used a cheap. Damn skippy buddy! The director of April Fool’s Day even accepts responsibility for the fall of the slasher film before quickly saying he doesn’t and the distributor of the movie should be blamed.

Towards the end it starts to lose steam a little. They talk about Silence of the Lambs and Scream as revitalizing the horror movie genre and spend way too much time patting the makers of Scream on the back. They gloss over the fact that those movies spawned a lot of low budget and high budget movies that sucked, just the same as we saw in the 1980s. In fact, some might argue that movies like I Still Know What You Did Last Summer are far worse than movies like Cheerleader Camp.

Going to Pieces is still an excellent documentary and I’m glad I took the recommendation of a friend and watched it. It glosses over horror movies made earlier and focuses on the slasher films of the late 1970s and on, starting with Halloween. Plus they bring together not only John Carpenter and Wes Craven, but a lot of lesser known directors working during this time. Any movie that not only mentions My Bloody Valentine, but shows clips and an interview with the director, definitely gets two thumbs up from me.

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