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In Which It’s Very Hard to get Lost in America These Days In the many retrospective pieces about 1999’s The Blair Witch Project I’ve read there’s a common refrain that’s intoned again and again: the movie has a unique power because we … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 38: The Blair Witch Project
It is a harrowing disease, one of the deadliest across history, it’s victims are left in a pallid state , their eyes blood red; wracked by extreme fever and night sweats, their weight plummets as they simply waste away. If … Continue reading The Vampires of Rhode Island: Voted That This Council Be Dissolved. Abigail Staples, 23, Cumberland. 1796
Those of us of a certain age will remember a particularly sinister version of Halloween that pesky get much play these days. We remember the Satanic panic and the ever present fear that candy may be laced with razor blades. … Continue reading Review: WNUF Halloween Special (2013)
Vincent Price is a staple of a certain horror fan’s diet. The man was in dozens horror movies, had lots of tv cameos/guest spots that played into his over-the-top theatricality he brought to many roles however very few films let … Continue reading Month of Horror 2019 Day 16: Vincent Price in Theatre of Blood
Rob Zombie’s 31 refers to the day that Halloween is on. It’s possible that this a cheeky reference to Zombie’s time as director of the Halloween movies. In the movie’s universe, it’s the title of a game. Malcolm McDowell plays … Continue reading Review: 31 (2016)
My god, I feel old. A Special Place and Time A lot of digital ink has already been spilt on the subject of one of the most influential and unexpected films in the last two decades. What I think one … Continue reading Month of Horror 2019 Day 15 The Blair Witch Project 20 Years Later
I have always heard that Land of the Dead was the weakest of the George Romero zombie movies. It’s true that it’s not as much of a game changer as Night of the Living Dead or Dawn of the Dead. … Continue reading Review: Land of the Dead (2005)
A truly intense experience all horror nerds should seek out! What: the 11th Annual Shock Around the Clock Marathon Where: The Drexel Theatre, Columbus Ohio When Saturday October 12th 12pm- 12pmSunday October 13th Survival – a Matter of Planning Traveling out … Continue reading Month of Horror 2019 – Surviving a 24 Hour Horror Movie Marathon
I am not convinced that Sylvain White, the director of Slender Man, actually knows what Slender Man is. Or maybe he knows more about the Slender Man than I do. A Slender Man is a tree, right? Or maybe the … Continue reading Review: Slender Man (2018)
When the credits came up on Gerald’s Game and showed that it was based on a story by Stephen King, I went, “Oh, that makes sense.” The entire movie finally came together for me. The flashbacks to a broken childhood … Continue reading Review: Gerald’s Game (2017)
In Which We’ve Met Before, Haven’t We. David Lynch has always been an underground filmmaker. Throughout his career Lynch’s narratives have snaked around the world to find the throbbing and humming forces that crawl just beneath the surface. That the … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 37: Lost Highway
Before there was the Blair Witch, there was The Last Broadcast The Last Broadcast (1998) Found footage is hit or miss because there’s a fine line between “holy crap these amateurs are in over their heads “ and “wow this … Continue reading Month of Horror 2019 Day 10 The Last Broadcast
Uwe Boll’s name is sometimes tossed around whenever bad movie directors are mentioned. But which movie is his most emblematic? Tommy Wiseau is forever tied to The Room, and Ed Wood has Plan 9 From Outer Space. Boll is better … Continue reading Review: House of the Dead (2003)
Did you know Werner Herzhog produced a found footage horror movie that stars director Zak Penn? Well if not, you’re welcome. Incident at Loch Ness (2004) A Tale of Two Movies This movie is bit tricky to untangle because it … Continue reading Month of Horror 2019 Day 9 Incident at Loch Ness
In Green Room, we follow a struggling punk band that includes the late Anton Yelchin and Ali Shawkat as members. Desperate for a gig, they accept one at a known White Power establishment in rural Oregon. Pickups line the dirt … Continue reading Review: Green Room (2015)
When I go to the comic book store, I usually have a good idea what I’m buying that week. Sometimes I’ll randomly grab a new comic just to give it a try. I was looking for the Bettie Page Halloween … Continue reading Comic Book Review – Vampire State Building #1
Today continues a series on found footage horror for the week. So much of life is filled with little mysteries. About a year ago when leaving work there was a red apple on the roof my car. Surely someone left … Continue reading Month of Horror 2019 Day 8 Lake Mungo
Horror is a genre where a lot of diehards have seen the majority of “the classics” and finding new features worth checking out can be a task that often leads to looking for a diamond in the rough (and boy … Continue reading Month of Horror 2019 Days 6-7 Gives you an international double feature
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! And welcome, also, to the month of … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (& “The Mad Doctor”)
Going to try and get these up for each Saturday of the month as part of a theme of specifically gonzo, weird/fun/different horror entries I consider more to be “midnight movies”. Let’s Get Right to the Point Watch this movie. … Continue reading Month of Horror 2019 Day 5 Saturday Midnight Feature: Hausu
In Which It’s the Millennium and Motives are Incidental The 90’s were an odd duck of a decade for the horror genre. Since, oh say about the mid 50’s, horror films enjoyed an existence of being the mainline to the … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 36: Scream
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