Good call on my hyperbole.

Such things as “instant classics” do exist, but I wouldn’t count INSIDE of MARTYRS among them.

If they are to rank among the greats, only time can suss that out.

Still, both were very good!

I’m right with you on the Dawn Of The Dead remake. Can’t touch the original, but still, about the most effective remake I’ve seen.

One thing I can’t understand is why High Tension gets acclaim. I thought it was a lowest-common-denominator, forgettable bunch of predictable cliches and nothing more. Plus it’s got major fridge logic in it. (That’s the things in a movie that go right by you and you don’t question them at the time, but then afterwards, while you’re at the fridge grabbing another beer, you suddenly think, “Wait a minute. If she was the killer, how could she have been in one place with her friend and simultaneously in a totally different place skullfucking a disembodied head in the truck?”)

BTW, I went to high school with Jesse Friedman, and know a lot of people in “Capturing The Friedmans”. Amongst his acquaintances there is still disagreement as to whether he did it or not. I don’t believe it for a second but I know people who strongly disagree.