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….
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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),….
Apple Tells Apple TV+ Show Creators Not To Tick Off China
Please respect Winnie-the-Pooh Back at the beginning of 2018, Apple’s SVP of internet software and services told its creators working on Apple TV+ shows to steer clear about any plotlines….
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….
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,….