31 Days of Fright: VHS
“Are you afraid of your future?” Most movies that make you root against their main characters do so accidentally (the recent remake of Friday the 13th, for instance, seems to truly….
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31 Days of Fright: Creepshow
“Did you see that crap? All that horror crap?” Creepshow must have been the easiest pitch in the world. Stephen King, hot off the success of Cujo, and George A. Romero, still riding….
31 Days of Fright: Paranormal Activity
“It feels like a monster. Like it wants to hurt me.” You need a damn good reason to make a found-footage movie. The once-novel gimmick has only been done right….
31 Days of Fright: Poltergeist
“This house has many hearts.” A horror film can make an impression, sight unseen, from its title alone. For instance, I maintain that The Evil Dead is the best title for a….
31 Days of Fright: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
“I’m bad.” I know what you’re thinking: really, another black and white, Iranian, feminist vampire movie? I know, I know; this month has been full of them. But A Girl Walks….
Justice League Movie Might’ve been Spoiled by Big Bang Theory Contest
“I’ve ruined it for everyone. Bazinga!“ Look at that headline. Are you really surprised that a Big Bang Theory contest might’ve spoiled the upcoming Justice League? My boss sure isn’t…..
31 Days of Fright: It Follows
“It could look like anyone. But there’s only one of it.” Some horror films sneak up on you. It Follows does not (ironic, considering the film’s source of terror). David Robert Mitchell’s….
31 Days of Fright: Pandorum
“I can’t remember any of my life before this flight began.” A movie as seminal as Alien is bound to produce knockoffs. Predator is one of the more successful ones, because it flipped the….
The Hogwarts Express Rescues Stranded Family
Platform 9¾ is probably preferable to the middle of nowhere. The Cluetts, a family on vacation on Scotland’s Loch Elit, were stranded when their canoe was washed away in the….
31 Days of Fright: Tremors
“They’re under ground and they dig like a son of a bitch!” Comedy-horror is a difficult genre. Any mash-up of genres will typically skew more towards one than the other…..
31 Days of Fright: Slither
“I am dead. Don’t I look it?” An inescapable part of James Gunn’s biography is that he got his start at Troma Films, the famed purveyors of over-the-top schlock such….
31 Days of Fright: Friday the 13th (2009)
“Say hi to mommy! In hell!” I’m going to present you with a sentence that has never before been written in the history of film criticism or essays: I was….