Sometimes, films purportedly based on “true events” don’t have to hinge on the supernatural or cryptozoologic to be horrific. Amityville II: The Possession has some horrific elements, but it essentially tells the story of Ronald DeFeo and his possible madness; the frightful images we see can easily be interpreted as what he saw in his own […]
The 1970s had a feel all of it’s own; the music, the cars, and certainly the films. We horror fanatics can rattle off a good-sized list of great flicks from that decade, from a plethora of Italian giallo films to such classics as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Black Christmas, The Exorcist, and Halloween, just to name a […]
Although the German expressionists like Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Murneau’s Nosferatu are milestones, it was the 1930s that brought about the first wave of truly popular horror; beginning with James Whale’s classic take on Frankenstein, horror movies hit their opening stride as crowd-pleasers, and more importantly to studios, money-makers. Soon, other classics were being churned […]
The 1980s was, of course, a bumper decade for we horror fans. There was the rise of the slasher flick, with Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers haunting our theaters every couple years, and nightmarish Freddy Kruger hit the scene in a successful franchise of his own. Tales From The Darkside, Friday the 13th: The Series, […]
In my younger days, friends and I would sit around and discuss possibilities of cross-overs in our favorite films. They did it in comic books all the time, right? We’d see Spider-Man show up in the Avengers, Batman would make an appearance in Green Arrow, and sometimes, we’d even see cross-company stuff, answering such timeless and […]
I was lucky enough to be a kid (and a horror fan) back in the golden age of the local video store. As some of you will remember, there was nothing quite like that trip to your neighborhood rental place to browse through the shelves of the many varied flicks that were available that you’d never heard […]
Being horror fans, we can come up with a pretty decent list of places that one really, really wouldn’t wanna spend their free time. The Bates Motel, near Fairvale…Camp Crystal Lake, close to the Hope Township…The Myers’ place in Haddonfield…112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville…Elm Street in Springfield…the Hanniger Mine, Valentine Bluffs… What’s that? Some of you are unfamiliar with the […]
Oh for the warm and fuzzy Friday night VHS rentals from the era of 1980s glory! If you were alive in those days then you know exactly what emotional vibration that should conjure up in your cells. I absolutely miss the small town video rental stores that seemingly were everywhere when I was a lad. […]
John Carpenter is, of course, an obvious staple in the world of horror, with such classics to his credit as Halloween, The Fog, The Thing, In The Mouth Of Madness…true tent-poles of the genre, and those are just a few examples. As the progenitor of such influential films, it’s no wonder he’s earned the moniker “The […]
The only thing I knew going into this chapter of the Puppet Master series was that it was a prequel. Ah, the dreaded prequel! I don’t believe this carried such a negative stigma prior to George Lucas pissing all over the original Star Wars trilogy, though I could be wrong about that. However, don’t let […]
If you’re a fan of 80’s horror, you pretty much have to love slashers. If you love slashers, you’ve likely seen 1981’s The Burning, and you probably have an opinion as to whether or not it’s a rip-off of the insanely popular film from the summer before, Friday The 13th. Writer Harvey Weinstein (of the […]
We horror fans have been subjected to more than our fair share of remakes, reimaginings, and rip-off over the years (The Asylum has made a whole cottage industry of it!), but when is a “rip-off” really more of an homage? When is using an idea done so well by another to create a similar story of […]
I’ve mentioned before that I’m a sucker for werewolf movies; I love vampires, zombies, masked killers, aliens, disembodied spirits and long-leggety beasties, but there’s always been something special about the full moon-shapeshifters that’s appealed to me. I was the Wolf-Man several Halloweens growing up, and Werewolf By Night was a favorite comic. A lover of horror movies […]
It’s hard to be a horror fan and not be familiar with the works of Stephen King; hell, it’s all but impossible. Being the most popular and prolific of horror writers of the twentieth (and so far, the twenty-first) century, it’s inevitable that film adaptations of his works are equally prevalent in the chosen genre […]
