The Second Opinion

Polished and improved for this Halloween season, here’s my list of the top ten most evil children in movie history! (I had yet to pick up a certain gimmick at the time.)

Rules:

– No possessed or mutated pseudo-children, and no actual monsters just posing as children. Kids with superpowers are okay, but they have to be human beings acting evil on their own accord. (If anyone was ambiguous on this one, they’ve probably been left out because of it.)

– Teens are allowed, but young adults (18+) don’t count.

– Nobody who was questionable as a child and then started doing evil stuff when they grew up. They have to do more than “think about” terrible things to make the cut, and it only counts if they do it as kids.

– Only movies with at least some type of theatrical release are eligible.

– There will be spoilers

With that out of the way, let’s begin the countdown! Read the rest of this entry →

The 500 Member Special has come and gone, and boy, was that a lot of fun, with lots of great contributions and everyone getting a moment in the spotlight. But after finding some pretty amusing idividual contribution videos for the 100 member special with the same theme on youtube, I have to think there are a lot of great moments from the participants that we didn’t get to see.

So long story short, I challenge all of you to post your idividual contributions to the special here, because I think we could have more fun still with that. And if you didn’t send one in because of scheduling conflicts or whatever, here’s your chance to go ahead and make one anyway, and show us how you would have performed the number. In fairness, I’ll go first.

‘Tis the season for horror movies, and I, for one, love it to death. (Get it? I opened a blog about funny movies with a bad joke.) But sometimes, in a sea of blood, guts, and jump scares, it’s easy to forget the full range of what a good spooky atmosphere is capable of. For example, it’s one of the most satisfying environments to turn on its head with some outrageous comedy gold. So here, for your enjoyment and terror, are my top 9 horror-comedies. Why only the top 9? Because less is more. (For is there anything worse than when a movie drags out the joke, as though it’s so clever, they need to give you an eternity to get it?) Read the rest of this entry →