31 Days of Fright: Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
“What it looks like what happened is pretty nasty.” The unknown is scary. This is not a new, or even particularly trenchant, observation; it’s the bedrock of almost every horror….
Category: Movies
31 Days of Fright: The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
“Ain’t nothin’ to see in the desert.” It is so, so rare for a remake to be better than its source material (off the top of my head, I can….
31 Days of Fright: The Hills Have Eyes
“Stay on the main road, ya hear? Stay on the main road!” What I’ve always loved about Wes Craven is how quickly he gets his films going – he’s all….
Zachary Levi is Shazam!
So long, Fandral; hello grown up Billy Batson. Yeah, they’re going to avoid calling him Captain Marvel, for obvious reasons. Sorry comic book guys. But Shazam! is next on the….
31 Days of Fright: Cronos
“My god, so much blood. All that blood is mine.” Imagine being at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993 and sitting down to watch Cronos, the thrillingly audacious debut film of a….
Why VHS Cover Art Stood Out so Well
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 3: Laundry Day: The Revenge If you go back and look at the covers for old horror movies circa the 1980’s, you’ll notice something about….
31 Days of Fright: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
“I see you shiver with antici…” In last year’s review of Little Shop of Horrors, I called the fanbase for The Rocky Horror Picture Show annoying and tacky. I stand by that, but it’s….
31 Days of Fright: The Witch
“Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?” The Witch subtitles itself “A New England Folktale,” and it presents itself as one too (the title has echoes of F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, which was subtitled A Symphony….
Why isn’t Mad Monster Party? a Thing?
Seriously, I wonder… When you’re a kid, Halloween is all about that hunt for candy. Possibly about an awesome/sucky costume, too. But when you’re an adult, the tables turn; now,….
Michael Bay is Producing Dora the Explorer Movie
I think I’d have watched Dora the Explorer if it featured Michael Bay-grade explosions. A live-action adaptation of Dora the Explorer is being produced. And, for some reason, Michael Bay….
31 Days of Fright: An American Werewolf in London
“Beware the moon, lads.” It’s so hard to make a good werewolf movie. The mythology is so baroque, so rooted in the Old World, that it’s hard to tell how….
31 Days of Fright: Nosferatu the Vampyre
“Time is an abyss, profound as a thousand nights.” Few directors have mastered atmosphere like Werner Herzog. A veteran documentarian, he shoots nature in a way that makes the viewer….