Watched 'Sorority House Massacre' last night. An 80s slasher flick that surprised me for being much better than I was led to believe. I mean, the kills and scares weren't really anything original, but the movie had so much atmosphere. The music and slow camera pans really created a sense of dread at times. And the lead character had flashbacks via dreams and visions to her childhood trauma, and these were interspersed with events happening contemporarily in an attempt to make the audience feel what she was feeling and bring us deeper into it.
I don't know, I thought it was much better than its reputation. I think it gets compared unfairly with 'Slumber Party Massacre,' which while fun in its own right, is a completely different take on the genre.
I also finally got around to watching 'Top Gun Maverick' a couple days ago. They managed to take the jet fighting scenes to another level. I suppose that's as much a result of the capabilities of the F18 vs the F14 of the first movie, but man, some of those scenes were absolutely incredible. As for the story itself, I thought they did a good job with it, bringing Goose's son into the mix, and his having a complicated relationship with Maverick. The love interest Penny, who was alluded to a couple times in the first movie, was done about as well as you can expect in these types of movies. The Ice Man scene got to me a bit, hey, I'm not a robot. Haha
Overall, I quite enjoyed it. I was a huge fan of the original growing up. Had it on Betamax, and it was one of the first movies I remember seeing in the theater, so it was cool to revisit that universe, and I thought they did it justice.