“He Who Walks Behind the Rows will decide your fate.” Look, it was the 1980s, okay? Putting Stephen King’s name on anything basically meant that you could print money. This was the era of...
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31 Days of Fright: Kairo
“Would you like to meet a ghost?” The best kind of horror, to me, is the kind that traffics in dread as opposed to shock. American horror, outside of the indie and arthouse scenes,...
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31 Days of Fright: American Mary
“Everything can be forgiven if the work is good.” Remember the Soska Sisters? They were poised to become the next big thing in horror; the Canadian twins were even the first filmmakers, ever, to...
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31 Days of Fright: The Omen
“God has given you a son.” I’ve been doing 31 Days of Fright for almost a decade now – sometimes sporadically, I’ll admit – so how am I just now getting around to watching...
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31 Days of Fright: Hellraiser (2022)
“We have such sights to show you.” I figured I owed Clive Barker a fairer shake than I initially gave him when I shat all over Hellraiser a few years ago. Sure, his brand...
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31 Days of Fright kicks off tomorrow!
Yep, we’re trying it again this year. I’m going to do my best to get through all 31 spine-tingling tales of horror and the macabre, and if you’d like to follow along, the schedule...
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31 Days of Fright: Lights Out
“I won’t be sent away again.” Horror is a unique genre in that almost every single entry in the canon can be interpreted as a metaphor for something. The Shining is about alcoholism, The...
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31 Days of Fright: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
“I’d like to kill somebody.” Some movies have a mean streak. Some movies are a mean streak. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer falls into that second category. Unflinchingly bleak, confrontationally misanthropic, intentionally unsatisfying,...
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31 Days of Fright: Black Death
“God is gone. The holy ghost is gone. Christ is gone.” Folk horror really is its own breed. It’s set apart from traditional horror – psychological, supernatural, slasher, body horror – by virtue of...
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31 Days of Fright: The Cave
“All European legends have sad endings.” I’m going to start describing a movie, and I have a good feeling that you’re going to think I’m talking about The Descent. I want to assure you...
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31 Days of Fright: The Wolf of Snow Hollow
“This is scary. It’s new. I never saw a body like that.” Why is it so hard to find a werewolf movie these days? The entire time I’ve been doing this stupid column, I’ve...
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31 Days of Fright: The Poughkeepsie Tapes
“I don’t think either of us wants you alive for the things I’m going to do to you.” The best found-footage movies – The Blair Witch Project, Hell House LLC – easily justify their...
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