Ohio State University researchers created two lists of films made after 1985
One of the lists was of meaningful films and one with less meaningful movies
They had 1,098 volunteers watch either the meaningful or less meaningful list
Watching meaningful films - those that we find moving and poignant - can make us feel more prepared to deal with life s challenges, the authors found
Friday the 13
th Part 2 arrived in theaters May 1, 1981.
Filmmakers faced a quandary from the outset, with almost the entirety of the original cast cinematically dead, including the main antagonist, Betsy Palmer’s aforementioned Mrs. Voorhees character. Director Sean S. Cunningham wasn’t keen on the idea of making her son, Jason, the new killer. Though he was used in the stinger ending of the first film, jumping out of Crystal Lake and pulling Alice (Adrienne King) from the canoe in which she was floating, Jason was meant to be a figment of her imagination.
Cunningham thought perhaps the next entry could be an entirely fresh story with no carryover roles or connection to the original other than in the title. Dissatisfied with the planned path of the story and his ideas for an anthology rebuffed, the filmmaker stepped away from the project, passing it on to friend and collaborator Steve Miner, who would make his directorial debut.
How Rob Zombie Helped Saw III Get Its R Rating
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Horror movies have long had a bad time battling the Motion Picture Association of America, who hand out the ratings for films. Like the slasher era before them in the 1980s, the glut of torture movies in the 2000s found themselves in similar territory as movies like the
Hostel, and
Wolf Creek came under an even more intense level of scrutiny with regard to violence and tone. Speaking about his behind-the-scenes work for Saw III, director Darren Lynn Bousman opened up about the problems he was having with the 2006 sequel and how another filmmaker who butted heads with the MPAA at the time helped him out.
These Are the 100 Best Films of All Time, According to Critics
By Jacob Osborn, Stacker News
AND Ellen Wulfhorst, Stacker News
On 5/9/21 at 9:00 AM EDT
For more than a century, there have been movies, and people paid to review them. The first film critic, W.G. Faulkner, began churning out weekly reviews in January 1912.
Since then, movie criticism has retained countless core consistencies while evolving to keep pace with the medium itself. During this time, the two respective arenas have developed what some might call a symbiotic relationship. Movies often, but not always, depend on solid reviews to succeed, and movie critics rely on the emergence of new films to keep their jobs.
The Associated Press
This image released by Netflix shows Amanda Seyfried in a scene from Things Heard And Seen. (Anna Kooris/Netflix via AP)
Hollywood thrillers in which sophisticated, attractive city folk move to creaky old country homes and experience scary things are a dime a dozen. Less common is when those Hollywood thrillers are based on the theology of 18th-century Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg.
But here we are a Swedenborgian thriller and thus it’s not a bad idea to read up a bit on the man, by which we mean to Google him, before diving into “Things Heard & Seen,” a well-cast and often entertaining but campy and sometimes obvious thriller starring Amanda Seyfried and James Norton.