Episode Report Card Aaron: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT American Pie
By Aaron | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.30.2001
By the way, this whole "opening with a young girl in a deserted house, getting scary calls from a killer who may or may not be in said house with her" thing was done first (and much better) by Carol Kane in When a Stranger Calls. As we go along here, let's keep a running count of how many scenes, shots, lines, and ideas Kevin steals. I've got to win back my Super Bowl bets (Damn you, Kerry Collins. DAMN YOU!) so I'm setting the over/under at oh, say five thousand. Place your bets now. And yes, I'm aware that stealing ideas is sort of the point of this movie, but this is a film that truly (if incorrectly, grammar-wise) begs the question: At what point does all this stop being homage and start becoming grand theft? A frightened Drew scrunches down in the corner behind the TV. The caller offers to play a game -- he'll ask movie trivia questions, and if she gets them right, the boyfriend lives. First question: Name the killer in Halloween. Hmm, let's see. Wayne Campbell? Nope. Dr. Evil? Close, but no cigar. It's Michael Myers, from back when an excessively white-faced Mike Myers was a scary thing, instead of a funny one. Drew gets it right. Next up: Name the killer in Friday the Thirteenth. Drew immediately guesses Jason, which the caller knows is the wrong answer. I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I knew that one too. Drew protests, but she's declared the loser, and the boyfriend gets the lovely parting gift of having his entrails spread all over the patio. I guess that's probably worse than testicular cancer, but presumably just barely. Back inside, Drew is still cowering behind the blue TV, causing Windows users across the globe to shudder at the sight of yet another blue screen of death. I'm shuddering at the sight of that joke. Anyway, a chair comes flying through the window, and a chase scene scampers in after it. Drew eventually stops running long enough to peek through a window, only to come face-to-face with the eponymously masked killer. "The Scream" was of course painted by Edvard Munch, who of course reminds me of John Munch, and since it amuses me to imagine Richard Belzer wearing that mask, I'll be calling the killer Munch from now on (or at least until it's time to start calling him Skeet). Munch punches through the window, and the chase begins anew. Running. Hiding. Stabbing. Hacking. Before Munch can finish the job, however, Drew knees him in a place that would have made me scream, and crawls away (all while maintaining a ludicrous, epoxy-enhanced death grip on the cordless phone, just so Wes & Williamson can set up the next scene).Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19Next