How to have a horrible holiday.Byline: BUZZWORTHY by The Register-Guard Ah, yes. Nothing says "Merry Christmas," "Happy Hanukkah" or "Happy Holidays" like a slasher slash·er n. One that slashes. adj. Characterized by gory violence: slasher movies. slasher Noun Austral & NZ flick. Not just any slasher flick, either. "Wolf Creek Wolf Creek may refer to several places in the United States: Cities
n. 1. The deriving of sexual gratification or the tendency to derive sexual gratification from inflicting pain or emotional abuse on others. 2. The deriving of pleasure, or the tendency to derive pleasure, from cruelty. celebration of pain and cruelty.' (To find out why the movie earned the rare `no stars' designation, see his full review on Page 15.) The film opens Sunday at Cinemark. Whether one likes horror flicks - or even this horror flick - isn't the point. The idea of "counterprogramming In broadcasting, counterprogramming is the practice of offering programs to attract an audience from another station airing a major event. Television The main events counterprogrammed are the Super Bowl and the Oscars. " Christmas and Hanukkah, which starts at sundown on Sunday, with a low-budget Australian horror movie is, well, horrific. Sure, there should be choices offered beyond the annual viewing of "It's a Wonderful Life." But watching three college kids get tortured by a psycho in the Australian outback is truly cynical. Heck, even `The Ringer,' a Johnny Knoxville flick produced by Peter and Bobby `There's Something About Mary" Farrelly, manages to evoke good will and humanity. If your family tradition is to spend a few hours of the holiday weekend in a darkened dark·en v. dark·ened, dark·en·ing, dark·ens v.tr. 1. a. To make dark or darker. b. To give a darker hue to. 2. To fill with sadness; make gloomy. 3. movie theatre, there are plenty of options open to you - options that don't include gore and mutilation Mutilation See also Brutality, Cruelty. Mutiny (See REBELLION.) Absyrtus hacked to death; body pieces strewn about. [Gk. Myth.: Walsh Classical, 3] Agatha, St. had breasts cut off. [Christian Hagiog. . `Memoirs of a Geisha,' from Oscar-winning "Chicago" director Rob Marshall, opens today at Cinema World and Cinemark. `Munich' and `The Ringer' open today at Cinemark, while `Christmas in the Clouds' - an actual Christmas movie, and an American Indian one at that! - opens today at the Bijou Art Cinemas. On Sunday, the Jennifer Aniston-starring, Rob Reiner-directed `Rumor Has It' opens at Cinema World and Cinemark, while `The Producers' joins `Wolf Creek' at Cinemark. So for this season, we'll say our final "Happy Holidays." If Bill O'Reilly blasts us for it, so be it. |
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