Editor’s Note: I am posting this from St. Lucia and will not get home until late next Wednesday so please forgive the fact that these will probably be shorter, less well researched, and posted irregularly. I also can’t promise a … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Movie Posters: The Creature Walks Among Us

Editor’s Note: I am posting this from St. Lucia and will not get home until late next Wednesday so please forgive the fact that these will probably be shorter, less well researched, and posted irregularly. I also can’t promise a … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Terence Fisher: The Brides of Dracula

10/17/2017 – Youths: Eden Lake (2008) Directed by James Watkins These aren’t creepy kids I’m talking about here. You know the ones of The Bad Seed, The Village of the Damned, and The Omen. These are the ones that have … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Youths: Eden Lake

10/15/2017 – Horror Titles: 976-EVIL (1988) Directed by Robert Englund As I was thinking about a topic for 976-EVIL, two things sprung immediately to mind and incidentally were the two reasons I chose to even watch this movie. One of those is the … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Horror Titles: 976-EVIL

10/15/2017 – Platinum Dunes: The Amityville Horror (2005) Directed by Andrew Douglas I’ve long said that if you are gonna pick a movie to remake, a bad one or one that has aged poorly is a perfect pick. By both standards, the … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Platinum Dunes: The Amityville Horror

10/14/2017 – Hannibal Lecter: Hannibal Rising (2007) Directed by Peter Webber While Thomas Harris is also responsible for Black Sunday, a 1975 book made two years later into a film by John Frankenheimer, he will always be associated with one book series. In … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Hannibal Lecter: Hannibal Rising

10/13/2017 – Song Kang-ho: The Quiet Family (Choyonghan kajok) (1998) Directed by Kim Jee-woon The Quiet Family is Kim Jee-woon’s debut picture and also starred Choi Min-sik (later to be made famous in the West by Oldboy and Lucy). I’m sure there’s a lot of things … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Song Kang-ho: The Quiet Family (Choyonghan kajok)

10/12/2017 – DTV Sequels: American Psycho II: All American Girl (2002) Directed by Morgan J. Freeman Before we get started, no, that is not the Morgan Freeman we all know and love. This is Morgan J. Freeman of the mediocre film Hurricane Streets as … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – DTV Sequels: American Psycho II: All American Girl

10/11/2017 – Exploitation: I Spit on Your Grave (2010) Directed by Steven R. Monroe This may seem like a rerun since well, I’ve talked about low budget films plenty in the past including yesterday with schlock and the original last year. Heck, this was supposed … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Exploitation: I Spit on Your Grave

10/10/2017 – Schlock: Vicious Lips (1986) Directed by Albert Pyun Schlock is a term that has long been used to refer to crap. Specifically in the context of film (and especially horror) it refers to a specific type of film. It’s not … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Schlock: Vicious Lips

10/09/2017 – Modernized: The Return of Dracula (1958) Directed by Paul Landres As the consistent stream of remakes since the beginning of cinema has proven, there will always be a market for new versions of classic tales. But, just redoing a film over and … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Modernized: The Return of Dracula

10/08/2017 – China: Song at Midnight (1937) Directed by Ma-Xu Weibang Any writer who tells you they still like their old work is delusional or lying. Even going back and looking at my write ups from two years ago is painful and … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – China: Song at Midnight

10/07/2017 – Sub-R Horror: Ouija (2014) Directed by Stiles White Nearly 100 years ago in 1922, the Motion Picture Association of America (better known as the MPAA) was founded ostensibly to protect against censorship (especially that which occurred on a regional level) … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Sub-R Horror: Ouija

10/06/2017 – Female Directors: Raw (Grave) (2016) Directed by Julia Ducournau Technically I discussed this topic here last year, but I did so on the 12th review of the final day of the marathon. I summed up the work of over half the world’s … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Female Directors: Raw (Grave)

10/05/2017 – Chucky: Curse of Chucky (2013) Directed by Don Mancini After the release of Halloween in 1978, the Slasher genre quickly fell into patterns. Halloween begat the lousy Friday the 13th series and it seemed like that was the template for everything that followed. Most of the films were … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Chucky: Curse of Chucky

10/04/2017 – Remakes: The Phantom of the Opera (1962) Directed by Terence Fisher It may not be defending Saw, but defending remakes can still be a challenging. If there is any genre that has been well served by remakes it is horror. Sure there … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Remakes: The Phantom of the Opera

10/03/2017 – Stephen King: It (2017) Directed by Andy Muschietti As good a year as horror is having, Stephen King may be having one just as good. He’s already co-written a book (with one of his sons which has unsurprisingly already been … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Stephen King: It

10/02/2017 – James Wan: Dead Silence (2007) Directed by James Wan In 2003, two Australians (one born in Malaysia) made a 9 minute short on a shoestring budget in order to be able to pitch a full length version of this idea. … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – James Wan: Dead Silence

10/01/2017 – TV Movies: The Plumber (1979) Directed by Peter Weir Welcome to the another month of horror films and more. If you missed my intro to this project you can check it out here but this is my fourth year of these write … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – TV Movies: The Plumber