#reeker

Never seen the other movies, but I’ve written for Laid to Rest, The Collector, and My Bloody Valentine.

ChromeSkull: He’s a pretty good slasher. Cool skull mask variation and the shoulder-mounted camera is a nice touch. Neither movie was that great, but the sequel was an improvement. Still, a prequel or another sequel would be nice.

Gunther: Carnival horror film! <3 Which I’ve never actually seen. Read novelization a looong time ago, though. It was better than the dozen or less other Dean Koontz books I’ve read. But it made me sad Amy couldn’t get along with her half-siblings. That one murdery guy and the baby jar. Or maybe I’m getting Funhouse confused with another Koontz work.

Babyface: Happy Death Day and The First Purge also had baby doll masks. It’s a good motif. I have a dress with baby doll heads. (See below.)

Reeker: Silly name is silly.

Phantom Killer: So The Town That Dreaded Sundown is like a real life Stab from Scream?

the Collector: Yes! Great movie, great movie. Decent sequel, too. 

the Miner: Fun fact, I used to be afraid of gas masks because of that Rugrats greenhouse episode. Anyway, Harry Warden should be ranked up there with the other slasher greats. :(

Victor Crowley: All I see are a bunch of nosy tourists who should’ve invited a lonely lad to celebrate Fat Tuesday with them.

Frank Zito: If he’s that good at scalping, he could have made a killin’ waxing pubes, instead.

the Outcasts: A slasher polycule you want nothing to do with. (That’s not actually the vibe I got from the video, but it’d be fun.)

Reeker (2005)

Dir. Dave Payne

There's a blind character in the first Reeker movie, he utilizes no apparent aids to move around and in fact repeatedly required another character to lead him around the environment, something the movie treats as this character's normal without question. He even at one point gives the "without sight my other senses had to get super strong" speech.

But the actor portraying this character seemingly actually has at least seen footage of a blind individual not wearing opaque glasses at least one time and it influenced his portrayal.

Thus I found myself thinking "this is halfway decent representation"

I'm wrong it really isn't, but I've lowered the bar so many times! God fucking damn I wish the world was better than it is.

I honestly recommend them as a double feature good times for all

Which means two things:

Reeker was significantly better than I misremembered it being.