10/29/2017 – M. Night Shyamalan: Split (2017) Directed by M. Night Shyamalan What can I say, I called an audible. Scroll enough and you’ll find a review of Baskin, but I felt this needed to be spotlighted considering its length … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – M. Night Shyamalan: Split

10/28/2017 – Laos: Dearest Sister (Nong hak) (2016) Directed by Mattie Do While Laos gained independence in 1949, few films, and nothing all that prominent were made in the ensuing decades. What little industry there was, was crushed in 1975 … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Laos: Dearest Sister (Nong hak)

10/27/2017 – Greece: Island of Death (Ta pediá tou Diavólou) (1976) Directed by Nico Mastorakis For my third country profile of the year after China and Switzerland, I will be taking a look at Greece. As I described in the … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Greece: Island of Death (Ta pediá tou Diavólou)

10/26/2017 – George A. Romero: Survival of the Dead (2009) Directed by George A. Romero Earlier this year, we lost one of the true horror innovators. There are very few people who can lay claim to basically inventing an entire … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – George A. Romero: Survival of the Dead

Editor’s Note: I am posting this having just arrived home from St. Lucia and wrote most of this with my laptop awkwardly balanced in airport and a car so please forgive the fact that this is probably shorter and less … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Documentary: Universal Horror

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 – Female Villains: She-Wolf of London

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 – Literature: This Book Is Full of Spiders

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 – Switzerland: Sennentuntschi

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 Length: A Cure for Wellness

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 – Propaganda: Invisible Agent

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