31 Days of Fright: The Fly
“Be afraid. Be very afraid.” I could, and almost did, summarize The Fly in three simple words: this fucking movie. David Cronenberg doesn’t play nice with his 1986 body horror….
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31 Days of Fright: The Ninth Gate
“All books have a destiny of their own.” “And a life of their own.” Okay guys, this is on me. The Ninth Gate is absolutely not a horror film. It’s….
31 Days of Fright: The Mist
“It appears we may have a problem here of some magnitude.” Some people hate The Mist. And I get it. I do. My friend and colleague Nate Tensen, for whom….
31 Days of Fright: The Evil Dead/Evil Dead II
“Dead by dawn! Dead by dawn!” Has there ever been a better horror movie title than The Evil Dead? Sure, in context it has nothing to do with the plot,….
31 Days of Fright: Hush
“When you wish you were dead, that’s when I’ll come inside.” Some horror films are great because of their underlying meanings, like how Rosemary’s Baby is about a woman trying….
31 Days of Fright: Little Shop of Horrors
“It doesn’t eat plant food.” “This is the kind of movie that cults are made of,” Roger Ebert wrote in his original 1986 review of Little Shop of Horrors, and….
31 Days of Fright: The Thing (1982/2011)
“I know I’m human.” The Thing is my favorite horror movie. I love it more than The Shining, or The Exorcist, or anything else that is included on the watch….
31 Days of Fright: The Last House on the Left (1972/2009)
“I don’t want you girls to worry. We just wanted some company, you know?” I’ll be honest, after last night’s Friday the 13th debacle, the last thing I wanted to….
31 Days of Fright: The Babadook
“You can bring me the boy. You can bring me the boy. You can bring me the boy.” Making horror movies in the wake of The Babadook feels almost irrelevant…..
31 Days of Fright: Pulse
“Do you want to meet a ghost?” Even Kristen Bell – teenage sleuth of Veronica Mars, songstress of Frozen, a woman so goddamn likeable that she made Dax Shephard seem….
31 Days of Fright: The Cabin in the Woods
“We rig the game as much as we have to, but in the end, if they don’t transgress they can’t be punished.” For the life of me, I cannot think….
31 Days of Fright: Cujo
“It’s not a monster, it’s just a doggy.” I’ll be honest, I didn’t know what to expect going into Cujo. As a massive Stephen King fan, I’ve read the book,….