31 Days of Fright: The Legend of Hell House
“It’s the Mount Everest of haunted houses.” There’s a nonzero chance that you might not know the name Richard Matheson; he doesn’t come up in conversation as often as he….
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31 Days of Fright: Verotika
“Hello, my darklings.” It’s hard to know where to start when discussing Verotika. This film is so astoundingly bad, so astonishingly inept in every single direction, so unintentionally hilarious, that….
31 Days of Fright: The Bad Seed
“Children can be nasty, don’t you think?” I’m not sure if The Bad Seed was the first creepy kid movie, but it was certainly the most popular. The 1956 film….
31 Days of Fright: The Changeling
“That house is not fit to live in. No one’s been able to live in it. It doesn’t want people.” Death is a big part of horror as a genre…..
31 Days of Fright: We Are Still Here
“Nobody knew what was under this house until it was too late!” Retro-style horror is a curious thing. Sometimes – and this is a compliment – it can play like….
31 Days of Fright: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
“The saw is family.” How would you even begin to make a sequel to a document as perfect as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Why would you even try? There’s a….
31 Days of Fright: Session 9
“It’s going to get ugly.” If I were to describe Session 9 to you, it would sound like the most insipid montage of cliches: a horror movie set in a….
31 Days of Fright: Castle Freak
“There’s somebody in the castle!” Even for a Stuart Gordon film, Castle Freak is a tough watch. Gordon was a director renowned for his unhinged excess – look no further….
31 Days of Fright: Emelie
“Sometimes it’s okay to destroy something for fun.” Emelie, like its title character, is a nasty, insidious thing. At its best, Michael Thelin’s film is unsettling and deeply uncomfortable, producing….
31 Days of Fright: Suspiria (2018)
“I am she.” There are some movies that are generally considered too sacrosanct to remake. This is why we’re never getting a Casablanca with Zac Efron, and why The Social….
31 Days of Fright: Suspiria
“Hell is behind that door!” A few years back, when reviewing the wretched, incompetent Friday the 13th, I wondered if a movie can be considered a classic if it isn’t….
31 Days of Fright: Frozen
“You’re gonna be okay, baby. You’re gonna be okay.” The setup for Adam Green’s Frozen is a horror lover’s dream: two snowboarders and one skier, trying to fit in one….