Strap yourself in for 31 Days of Fright!
Greetings, guys and ghouls! Okay, enough of that. 31 Days of Fright begins tomorrow, and to give you an idea of how excited I am, I’m writing this in June,….
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31 Days of Fright: Halloween (2007)
“That’s the devil’s house!” A lot has been written – including on this very site – about the slick effectiveness of John Carpenter’s 1978 Halloween, but not enough ink has been spilled….
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….
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….
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….
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….
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….
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….
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….