If you came up watching Horror films in the 1980’s, there is no way you could have missed the title of this film. I can believe the possibility of not actually seeing it–not having never heard of it. I would have seen this around 1991 on cable television and even though I had not seen […]
How about another trip into some dread-soaked cinema from the sixties? Before I even get going, let’s make a few things understood, oh friendly Horror fan and reader. I have not read Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel, I Am Legend, nor have I seen any of the other adaptations of it. I only know this film, […]
During the phony reign of Hippie-dom in the 1960’s, there was a revolution in independent film-making. The decline of civilization was being documented through the lenses of artists that were not ignoring its darkness, as so many others did during that era, and from what I can tell, many still do. Looking at this era […]
The idea of our children going bad is an old fear; the prodigals returning to usurp the parents is a tale that’s been told since at least ancient Greece, and likely for much longer. Horror films, as with all of the other primal shared fears we have, picked up on this almost from the start. […]
After Michael but before Jason, horror cinema had another psychotic pop up on the radar; he was more akin to Norman Bates of old than either of these two chronologically closer contemporaries (at least in terms of motivation), but his methodology and what we were to witness was such that he could hold his own […]
It all started 35 years ago with Don Coscarelli and his stable of young filmmaking friends and actors, a childhood nightmare, and a desire to make a horror movie. Taking a small budget but big ideas, together they took these elements and made the film into a reality; a reality that has stood the test […]
Today’s recipe: Take one shot of Halloween, one shot of The Exorcist; pour into a shaker with ½ pint of Bad Acting and ½ pint of Low Budget; add just a splash of The Amityville Horror. Shake well. Serve over a weak script, and garnish with a couple of fairly decent gore scenes and a late-70s patina. […]
Imagine if, before beginning shooting on Night of the Living Dead, George Romero and his cast and crew had tied on a good drunk and decided “Fuck the zombies! Who’s gonna give a rat’s ass about zombies in a few years? Let’s make the bad guys stoners with rabies!” Continue to imagine that they then […]
