Steve Miner

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It's written by Ron Kurtz and Victor Miller, directed by Steve Miner.

And we know Steve Miner from being a, I believe, a assistant director or assistant production person on the first movie.

So he kind of had a dog in the fight on this movie.

He's watched, he was around, he saw Cunningham's product kind of unfold and sort of was under his tutelage.

He directed the movie Warlock.

None of these movies are particularly good, but I say that to say this.

Steve Miner, I think, is a little bit underrated.

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Steve Miner.

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James Carpenter Hooper.

So let's, uh, let's, let's go through the, uh, the treasure map, the pre- the prerequisites, the requirements.

Six countries, nine decades, five sequels, one Steve Miner film, one meta-horror, one film with massacre in the title, one film with devil in the title, two films that Screaming Mad George worked on, one Romero film, one film from a Black director, one Michael Gow film, one haunted house/building/room film, one film with a character or actor that you had a crush on when you were younger, you gotta tell us who it is, one film that Tom Savini worked on, one cursed item film, one film with LGBTQIA+ character or story, one bad kid film, one Sam Neill film.

Ugh, heartbreaking.

I, I-

Okay.

Um, but then I have a second haunted house, but it also overlaps.

My second haunted house is the Steve Miner House, 1985.

I love House.

And I don't know why, because the prosthetics in here definitely indicate that it is not PG-13.

From the pad list, Lake Placid, originally released July 16, 1999. written by David E. Kelly, directed by Steve Miner.

With a budget of $35 million, it had a box office take of only $56.9 million.

It sits 47% on Rotten Tomatoes.

It is originally an event started in honor of Toby Hooper by a popular Letterboxd user named Cinemonster, and has really evolved into one of the biggest Letterboxd events of the year, but there are specific criteria that you can overlap when you're picking.

So it's six countries, nine decades, a Steve Miner film, five sequels.

There's some fun ones this year.

But using all that, you make a 31 to 95 in Nia's case film.

There is something here where there is this quippiness and this lightness to this serious threat that it feels like it is throwing back to the late 70s, early 80s, which I'm okay with.

And also knowing that looking at the director of this, because I looked at when I was watching this, I was like, Steve Miner.

I was like, why does the name sound familiar? He directed Friday the 13th, 2 and 3, if I recall.

Yeah.

Like we tend to do sometimes.

But it could be one of those things like, hey, if you know, you know.

There are those kind of things too, but who knows? I mean, I don't have connection to talk to Steve Miner, so I have no idea.

Fair enough.

Let's have our first scene be him with the short shorts and no shirt on.

Where's our Steve Miner butt shot

for Nick? Hello? Come on.

Let's see what that booty do, but no.