31 Days of Fright: Re-Animator
“I gave him life!” If you’re looking for a faithful adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s 1922 novelette “Herbert West, Re-Animator,” then Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator is not for you. Gordon’s film is….
Author: T. Dawson
Trevor Dawson is the Executive Editor of GAMbIT Magazine. He is a musician, an award-winning short story author, and a big fan of scotch. His work has appeared in Statement, Levels Below, Robbed of Sleep vols. 3 and 4, Amygdala, Mosaic, and Mangrove. Trevor lives in Denver, CO.
31 Days of Fright: From Beyond
“Humans are such easy prey.” As Re-Animator made explicitly clear, Stuart Gordon’s films are not for the faint of heart. They’re horror films only nominally; they are horrific, certainly, but….
31 Days of Fright: The Taking of Deborah Logan
“So when I’m in the middle of something and suddenly my mind just leaves the premises, there are no words to describe how distressing it is.” We all love a….
31 Days of Fright: Hell House LLC
“This isn’t part of the show!” Haunted houses are such a part of the horror firmament that they date back to the very first Gothic novel, Horace Walpole’s The Castle….
31 Days of Fright: The Ritual
“We had those nightmares and it followed us, didn’t it?” Grief is fertile ground for horror films. There’s something elemental about it, something intimately apocalyptic: the bone-deep knowledge that something….
31 Days of Fright: Cube
“You think we matter? We don’t.” The conceit behind Cube is so surface-level goofy that if the viewer were given too much setup, the film would fall apart almost immediately,….
31 Days of Fright: Creep 2
“I’m what they call a ‘serial killer.’” Creep 2 had a tough task in front of it. It couldn’t be a rehash of the first film, because then it would….
31 Days of Fright: Creep
“Such unspeakable things I saw.” Creep has become an inescapable recommendation. I’ve been doing 31 Days of Fright since 2016, and every year it’s come close to making the list…..
31 Days of Fright: Ginger Snaps
“You and me against life as we know it.” Ginger Snaps doesn’t prepare you for the kind of movie it is; nothing about it belies the melancholy and pathos beneath….
31 Days of Fright: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
“I can’t handle the nightmare.” A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, is, by any definition, a better continuation of the series than was the second film, Freddy’s Revenge…..
31 Days of Fright: Halloween III: Season of the Witch
“I do love a good joke, and this is the best ever. A joke on the children.” After Halloween and Halloween II, John Carpenter and Debra Hill thought that the….
31 Days of Fright: Halloween II
“Why won’t he die?” John Carpenter’s Halloween is a strange beast. In many ways, it was a slapdash, fly-by-night production, with much of the behind the scenes personnel wearing multiple….