31 Days of Fright: The Strangers
“Because you were home.” Viewing The Strangers again this year, it struck me: we sure love siege films here at GAMbIT. For this column, I’ve covered Prince of Darkness, Hush,….
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31 Days of Fright: Event Horizon
“This place is a tomb.” Space is terrifying. There’s no better summation of that unfeeling void than the tagline for Alien: In space, no one can hear you scream. It….
31 Days of Fright: Night of the Living Dead
“They’re coming for you, Barbra.” The word “zombie” is never said once in George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. We hear “flesh eater”; we hear “ghoul”; sometimes we hear….
31 Days of Fright: The Monster
“Monsters are afraid of the light.” This was a rough one. The Monster is an accomplished piece of filmmaking, beautifully shot, and anchored by two terrific lead performances. But none….
31 Days of Fright: I Know What You Did Last Summer
“We’re gonna make a pact, right here and now. We take this to our grave.” Scream changed things. Teenagers have been the victims in slasher movies since time immemorial, but….
31 Days of Fright: Idle Hands
“I cut off my hand, and not it’s gonna kill you all!” We like to switch things up here at 31 Days of Fright. For every Rosemary’s Baby, you have….
31 Days of Fright: The Ring
“Seven days.” The Ring has remarkable staying power. At 17 years old, and responsible for the regrettable glut of J-horror remakes (The Eye, The Grudge, Dark Water, and so on),….
31 Days of Fright: The Lords of Salem
“Their blasphemous music echoes in my mind, driving me to the point of insanity…” Rob Zombie deserved another chance. Sure, I may have found his 2007 remake of Halloween wretched,….
31 Days of Fright: Beetlejuice
“Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!” Man, what a blast. Every scene of Beetlejuice, Tim Burton’s improbably enduring hit, brims with ecstasy and mischief; you can almost sense, off camera, not only the….
31 Days of Fright: Sleepy Hollow
“Their heads were not found severed. Their heads were not found at all.” Tim Burton used to be so much fun. Off the heels of his B-movie splatterfest Mars Attacks!,….
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….
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….