Posts tagged with 3-D

3-D Movies are mounting a comeback. Again. Be still, my bleeding eyes. Again.

At age 7, I stumbled upon the famous photograph of a movie theater audience staring up, enraptured, at Bwana Devil (1953) through paper eyeglasses with colored lenses.

Some nearby authority figure explained to me that those people were watching a 3-D movie, and those glasses enabled the images to jump right off the screen.

The immediate, flawlessly logical question I blurted out then was: “So why isn’t every movie in 3-D?” Nobody could explain it to me.

Seven was also the age when I happened up Pops McBeardo’s Playboy stashed in the bathroom hamper, so my unspoken query was: “And why isn’t Playboy in 3-D? And what about dirty movies?” The answers would come. As would I.

3 B’s in 3-D

Hello my friends, and welcome once again to Castle Rackula high in the peaks of Mamsylvania. This week I’ll be reviewing the 3-D slasher remake My Bloody Valentine.

But before I get to the movie, I have to comment on two of the previews that preceded it. The first was for Friday the 13th, out in theaters February 13th, and the second was for Last House on the Left.

I have to say, after the Halloween debacle, I was not enthusiastic about a Friday the 13th remake. And the disregard for the storyline the filmmakers showed in making Jason Voorhees the killer didn’t help. But everything I’ve seen so far looks pretty good, so I’ll reserve judgment.

My inclinations toward Last House on the Left are less charitable. But that’s another column for another day.

Read my full MBV3D review after the bite.