31 Days of Halloween: Ringu’s Impact

I think one of my favorite horror movies of the 90s and early 2000s is Ringu from Japan. I even like the American remake. I used to play those movies quite a lot… Continue reading →

31 Days of Halloween: Cloverfield and The Blair Witch parallels

Cloverfield’s initial media blitz caused a backlash that has divided movie fans. I think this movie has a very loyal fanbase and monster movie fans like it a lot, but there’s some people… Continue reading →

31 Days of Halloween: Werewolves are doomed from the start

American Werewolf in London (1981) was on TV tonight, and it made me think about all the cool themes all over again. We don’t seem to identify with the main character David like… Continue reading →

31 Days of Halloween: Nightbreed

Nightbreed feels like a fantasy film, with monsters and action, written and directed by Clive Barker. The music by Danny Elfman certainly does the job painting an otherworldly tone, with monsters living amongst… Continue reading →

31 Days of Halloween: What is Wishmaster?

Wishmaster was produced by Wes Craven and has an all-star cast. This movie is abnormal and outrageous, and the people who made this movie exploited Wes Craven and Wes Craven’s name. Craven is… Continue reading →

31 Days of Halloween: Five Nights at Freddy’s

I went to an early showing of the brand new movie Five Nights of Freddy’s, starring Josh Hutcherson as Mike, and it’s really terrible. It’s got way too much boring non-essential crap and… Continue reading →

31 Days of Halloween – Mark Hamill in Body Bags 1993

Body Bags wasn’t a movie I thought about until I found a 90s VHS in a bottom of a box. I unearthed it like a fossil and it actually played fairly well, but… Continue reading →

31 Days of Halloween: Do you like Wes Craven’s New Nightmare?

Wes Craven came up with some unique, meta ideas in New Nightmare he later used in Scream a few years later. This is like a warm up for the kind of thing Craven… Continue reading →

31 Days of Halloween: I’ve never reviewed the Living Dead remake

The problem with this movie is that somebody screwed up the first Night of the Living Dead by accidentally leaving off the copyright info, and Romero was broken up about it for years.… Continue reading →

31 Days of Halloween: Is Scream 2 good?

Scream 2 is back for more, this time ripping on horror sequels, with the original cast and a host of newcomers. Sydney, Gail and Dewey all have prominent roles in this sequel, and… Continue reading →

31 Days of Halloween: Superficial or Horrific?

Arachnophobia (1990) has a different kind of horror than the usual creature feature. It’s important to understand how director Frank Marshall frames his spiders and uses them in the movie, because it’s a… Continue reading →

31 Days of Helloween: Joe Bob’s Helloween

Italian producers in the 80s used weird titles like they used kleenex, so we get movies like Demons and Demons 2 which have nothing to do with each other. Basically, some teens revive… Continue reading →

31 Days of Halloween: Urban Legend worst of the 90s?

I really regret my decision to watch this horrible movie. This movie is done in the style of Scream, which means all the characters are “wise” to the way horror movies work and… Continue reading →

31 Days of Halloween: 5 people stay in a house and guess what happens

Kolobos is a movie about five people who stay in a house like in The Real World, but they end up dead. Yeah, spoilers for the most predictable movie ever. This low-budget indy… Continue reading →

31 Days of Halloween: Don’t do the Mind Warp again

Mindwarp is a little known 1991 sci fi horror movie, lost in the shuffle, despite a recognizable cast. The movie has a lot of problems, not the least of which is the pacing,… Continue reading →