31 Days of Fright: Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
“Ever dance with the devil?” I was wary at first about including Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon in this year’s lineup of horror movies, because I made….
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: Girl on the Third Floor
“Houses have personalities just like people, and some are rotten.” “Good bones” is a phrase you’ve probably heard. When a house has a solid foundation but needs some work, you….
31 Days of Fright: Sweetheart
“There’s no way for me to show you the things that I can tell you.” I don’t think anyone saw this coming, but Blumouse has quietly become one of the….
31 Days of Fright: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
“You can’t kill damnation, mister. It don’t die like a man dies.” Going in to watching Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, you need to be aware, from the….
31 Days of Fright: A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
“How do you handle your nightmares?” Generally speaking, if a movie has both a number and a colon in the title, you’re justified in assuming it’s going to be awful…..
31 Days of Fright: Marrowbone
“You’re the one who’s really dead.” Gothic horror is a genre to which it’s hard to bring anything new. It’s so well-known and so defined by its classics (The Haunting….
31 Days of Fright: Puppetmaster
“We put the dead to rest.” I am absolutely baffled by the longevity of the Puppetmaster franchise. There have been 12 of these since the first one came out in….
31 Days of Fright: Lake Mungo
“Death takes everything eventually. It’s the meanest, dumbest machine there is.” You’re going to see the title Lake Mungo pop up on a ton of lists, all of which will….
31 Days of Fright: The Legend of Hell House
“It’s the Mount Everest of haunted houses.” There’s a nonzero chance that you might not know the name Richard Matheson; he doesn’t come up in conversation as often as he….
31 Days of Fright: Verotika
“Hello, my darklings.” It’s hard to know where to start when discussing Verotika. This film is so astoundingly bad, so astonishingly inept in every single direction, so unintentionally hilarious, that….
31 Days of Fright: The Bad Seed
“Children can be nasty, don’t you think?” I’m not sure if The Bad Seed was the first creepy kid movie, but it was certainly the most popular. The 1956 film….
31 Days of Fright: The Changeling
“That house is not fit to live in. No one’s been able to live in it. It doesn’t want people.” Death is a big part of horror as a genre…..