31 Days of Fright: The Lords of Salem
“Their blasphemous music echoes in my mind, driving me to the point of insanity…” Rob Zombie deserved another chance. Sure, I may have found his 2007 remake of Halloween wretched,….
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31 Days of Fright: Sleepy Hollow
“Their heads were not found severed. Their heads were not found at all.” Tim Burton used to be so much fun. Off the heels of his B-movie splatterfest Mars Attacks!,….
31 Days of Fright: Re-Animator
“I gave him life!” If you’re looking for a faithful adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s 1922 novelette “Herbert West, Re-Animator,” then Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator is not for you. Gordon’s film is….
31 Days of Fright: From Beyond
“Humans are such easy prey.” As Re-Animator made explicitly clear, Stuart Gordon’s films are not for the faint of heart. They’re horror films only nominally; they are horrific, certainly, but….
31 Days of Fright: Hell House LLC
“This isn’t part of the show!” Haunted houses are such a part of the horror firmament that they date back to the very first Gothic novel, Horace Walpole’s The Castle….
31 Days of Fright: The Ritual
“We had those nightmares and it followed us, didn’t it?” Grief is fertile ground for horror films. There’s something elemental about it, something intimately apocalyptic: the bone-deep knowledge that something….
31 Days of Fright: Cube
“You think we matter? We don’t.” The conceit behind Cube is so surface-level goofy that if the viewer were given too much setup, the film would fall apart almost immediately,….
31 Days of Fright: Creep 2
“I’m what they call a ‘serial killer.’” Creep 2 had a tough task in front of it. It couldn’t be a rehash of the first film, because then it would….
31 Days of Fright: Creep
“Such unspeakable things I saw.” Creep has become an inescapable recommendation. I’ve been doing 31 Days of Fright since 2016, and every year it’s come close to making the list…..
31 Days of Fright: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
“I can’t handle the nightmare.” A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, is, by any definition, a better continuation of the series than was the second film, Freddy’s Revenge…..
31 Days of Fright: Halloween III: Season of the Witch
“I do love a good joke, and this is the best ever. A joke on the children.” After Halloween and Halloween II, John Carpenter and Debra Hill thought that the….
31 Days of Fright: Halloween II
“Why won’t he die?” John Carpenter’s Halloween is a strange beast. In many ways, it was a slapdash, fly-by-night production, with much of the behind the scenes personnel wearing multiple….