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….
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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….
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….
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….
31 Days of Fright: 30 Days of Night
“Bar the windows. Try to hide. They’re coming.” It’s kind of weird that I didn’t write about this movie last year, isn’t it? After all, 30 Days of Night is the film….
31 Days of Fright: Prince of Darkness
“It really is Old Scratch knocking at the door.” In the early 1980s, director John Carpenter began what he called his Apocalypse Trilogy; it consists of The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and In the….
31 Days of Fright: A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
“I can sleep. I just don’t want to.” It’s starting to become conventional, accepted wisdom that there is, at times, good reason to remake a film. Maybe it’s because the….
31 Days of Fright: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
“You can make them stop!” Patton Oswalt has a bit where he explains that the greatest movie title of all time is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He’s not wrong. Like the film….