31 Days of Fright: The Thing (1982/2011)
“I know I’m human.” The Thing is my favorite horror movie. I love it more than The Shining, or The Exorcist, or anything else that is included on the watch….
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31 Days of Fright: The Last House on the Left (1972/2009)
“I don’t want you girls to worry. We just wanted some company, you know?” I’ll be honest, after last night’s Friday the 13th debacle, the last thing I wanted to….
31 Days of Fright: Friday the 13th
“Camp Blood – they’re opening that place again?” Before starting this feature, I had never seen Friday the 13th. There’s always a sense of trepidation when you first watch an….
31 Days of Fright: The Babadook
“You can bring me the boy. You can bring me the boy. You can bring me the boy.” Making horror movies in the wake of The Babadook feels almost irrelevant…..
31 Days of Fright: Pulse
“Do you want to meet a ghost?” Even Kristen Bell – teenage sleuth of Veronica Mars, songstress of Frozen, a woman so goddamn likeable that she made Dax Shephard seem….
31 Days of Fright: The Cabin in the Woods
“We rig the game as much as we have to, but in the end, if they don’t transgress they can’t be punished.” For the life of me, I cannot think….
31 Days of Fright: Cujo
“It’s not a monster, it’s just a doggy.” I’ll be honest, I didn’t know what to expect going into Cujo. As a massive Stephen King fan, I’ve read the book,….
31 Days of Fright: Scream 3/Scream 4
“How meta can you get?” For a series that prides itself on its inside knowledge of film construction, Scream sure can’t finish a trilogy. Scream 3 is a mess almost….
31 Days of Fright: Scream/Scream 2
“Please don’t kill me, Mr. Ghostface, I wanna be in the sequel!” What a breath of fresh air Scream was. The film is a watershed moment in horror history, the….
31 Days of Fright: Alien
“I admire its purity.” Like a lot of classic horror films – The Exorcist, Friday the 13th, Rosemary’s Baby, The Omen, Children of the Corn, The Blair Witch Project, A….
31 Days of Fright: Rosemary’s Baby
“They use blood in their rituals!” Rosemary’s Baby is unsettling, yes; at times it’s quite scary, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a horror film. Like….
31 Days of Fright: The Orphanage
“Que es un fantasma, Carlos?” On paper, The Orphanage should be a rote, assembly-line horror film. It features creepy kids, a missing son, a spooky old woman, a giant house….