Category Archive: 31 Days of Halloween 2021

31 Days of Halloween – All My Friends are Dead

I’m ending the 31 Days of Halloween marathon with this movie to showcase something new and interesting. Last year, Netflix began running several foreign-language features and brought in Polish feature, All My Friends… Continue reading

31 Days of Halloween – Shatner’s Spiders

As William Shatner himself once said, there are big pictures, small independent movies, then there’s Kingdom of the Spiders. I remember this movie being aired on late night public access and cable TV… Continue reading

31 Days of Halloween – John Carpenter’s Halloween

John Carpenter’s Halloween has been copied and remade so many times that it’s easy to minimalize. It’s still good. But it can only be done once. That’s the thing. I mean, you can… Continue reading

31 Days of Halloween – From Beyond with Barbara Crampton

From Beyond (1986) is an HP Lovecraft movie from the exact same people who brought you Re-Animator. Jeffrey Combs accidentally opens a portal to HELL using an Apple IIe but he’s thankfully bailed… Continue reading

31 Days of Halloween – Is Friday the 13th a cheap copy?

Did Friday the 13th succeed only because of John Carpenter’s Halloween? Friday the 13th has all the surface elements Halloween does, including on-screen kills, jump scares, and attractive lead characters. If anything, I… Continue reading

31 Days of Halloween – Ginger Snaps After School Special

Never say that I don’t try new things or don’t branch out to give things a chance. Ginger Snaps (2000) is an after school special, disguised as a werewolf horror movie and angsty… Continue reading

31 Days of Halloween – The Fog

The film opens with an quote from Edgar Allen Poe: “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream,” where John Carpenter explains the movie’s theme. The Fog (1980)… Continue reading

31 Days of Halloween – The Haunted Strangler with Karloff

The Haunted Strangler is horror movie starring Boris Karloff and it’s another oldass movie I’ve never seen before. This movie was made on a low, low budget for a double bill but still… Continue reading

31 Days of Halloween – The Monster that Challenged the World

This movie could be Jaws before Jaws was ever made. There must be something about underwater creatures, because that same concept has made Jaws, Gozilla (to a point), and this movie very successful.… Continue reading

31 Days of Halloween – Abbott and Costello

Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy (1955) marks the end of the Golden Age of horror movies from Universal. Abbott and Costello have their act down to a science after two decades together… Continue reading

31 Days of Halloween – The Blair Witch Project is out of Vienna sausage

What do you buy when you’re about to go camping during a horror movie? Mike, Heather, and Josh buy all kinds of crap at a local IGN discount mart, and don’t really prepare… Continue reading

31 Days of Halloween – The Blade 1998 Metaphor

Blade is a walking metaphor. He’s not like a human being and he’s not exactly a full fledged vampire either—both groups hate him or fear him depending on the person. Blade was sorta… Continue reading

31 Days of Halloween – The worst review ever

My old notes for Dawn of the Dead 2017 were at the bottom of a junk drawer, but I couldn’t read them, and I don’t dare watch this movie all over again. Dawn… Continue reading

31 Days of Halloween – Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow is not the darkest Tim Burton movie ever made, nor is it the best Johnny Depp movie, but it provides some thrills. For about thirty minutes, Sleepy Hallow is entertaining and… Continue reading

31 Days of Halloween – Bride of Frankenstein

New generations interpret Bride of Frankenstein (1935) in many different ways, which shows that this movie will endure for many years to come. This movie picks up right after the end of Frankenstein… Continue reading

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