Robert Tapert

Darkman (1990)

Darkman (1990)
Rating: ★★★½
Jan 3, 2000Disfigured Avenging Superhero
Amid the early 1990s spate of dark superhero films, Sam Raimi created one of the few original screen superheroes with Darkman, essentially a superhero film where The Joker (by way of The Phantom of the Opera) is the hero of the piece
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Army of Darkness (1992)

Army of Darkness (1992)
Rating: ★★
Jun 5, 2000Evil Dead Sequel/War with the Dead/Horror Comedy
Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell make their third Evil Dead film. The series hit a peak with the delirious balance of horror and comedy in the second film but here the comedy over-balances and becomes too broad
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The Possession (2012)

The Possession (2012)
Rating: ★
Aug 31, 2012Occult Box/Possession
Based on the urban legend surrounding a dybbuk box that turned up on an EBay auction, although the film throws this out to conduct an utterly generic possession story. Despite the novelty of drawing on Judaic mythology, the film still trades in the same tired cliches as the Christian exorcism film
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Poltergeist (2015)

Poltergeist (2015)
Rating: ★★
May 30, 2015Haunting
It has become an overused phrase in this site's critical arsenal to say "yet another 70s/80s remake that is inferior to the original". The 1982 Poltergeist was one of the great ghost stories of the era; this hits all the beats and with bigger effects but fails to find any of the haunted mood of the original
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Don’t Breathe (2016)

Don’t Breathe (2016)
Rating: ★★
Sep 3, 2016House Breakers Stalked by a Blind Man
This, which is sort of The People Under the Stairs by way of Wait Until Dark, was greeted with terms like ‘an instant classic'. It is a well-oiled machine that produces some undeniable jumps but little remains in memory after it is over
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