31 Days of Fright: V/H/S 94
“All are welcome. All are watching.” Any time I write about a found-footage movie, or an anthology movie, I always make the same stupid point: that the film needs a….
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31 Days of Fright: The House By the Cemetery
“Blood! Blood! Not just blood – his name! I hear it now!” Lucio Fulci is one of those names you’re not going to be able to stay away from. He’s….
31 Days of Fright: Child’s Play (2019)
“Are we having fun now?” The only thing more predictable than comic book movies these days are reboots. Hell, there’s a new Texas Chainsaw Massacre coming to Netflix soon, which….
31 Days of Fright: In the Mouth of Madness
“Do you read Sutter Cane?” John Carpenter was so ubiquitious in the 1980s that it’s easy to think that he fell off in the ’90s. There was the poorly-received Memoirs….
31 Days of Fright: Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
“He’ll never die.” It’s safe to assume that once a franchise has reached its fifth installment, it’s safe to call it quits. At that point, it’s most likely in the….
31 Days of Fright: A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
“It’s a boy!” Right off the bat, we should establish that there’s no good reason for A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child to exist. I mean, none….
31 Days of Fright: Grave Encounters
“This place is about as haunted as a sock drawer.” It feels like a lot of modern found-footage horror movies follow the same playbook: a group of skeptics goes into….
31 Days of Fright: Vampires
By the end of the twentieth century, the bloom had come off the rose for John Carpenter. After dominating the entire horror genre in the 1980s, the 1990s proved to….
31 Days of Fright: Housebound
“There are one or two occupants who have yet to leave the premises.” I hadn’t intended doing any horror comedy this year, because, well, I like writing about horror more….
31 Days of Fright: Prom Night
“Killers are coming! Killers are coming!” Halloween changed everything. John Carpenter’s micro-budget slasher opened the floodgates, all while proving that the long-neglected genre was economically viable. In the wake of….
31 Days of Fright: Hatchet
“These are his woods.” If you interact enough with the horror community – on Twitter, or Reddit, or any sort of fan page – someone will inevitably recommend you watch….
31 Days of Fright: 1408
“Even if you leave this room, you can never leave this room.” Stephen King is such a proven quantity for movies that even his writing exercises get adapted for the….