Socially Distant, self isolated and sheltered in place.
Guillermo del Toro loves fairytales. He’s quick to share his insights on the subject in interviews or on commentaries and his ability to create films with an authentic fairy tale … Continue Reading Cronos (1993) October 31st, 2020
Halloween is a classic, I personally enjoyed Halloween II more, but Halloween III: Season of the Witch was neither classic nor enjoyable. If you’re unfamiliar with the legend allow me … Continue Reading Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) October 31st, 2020
Imagine, it’s Halloween 2020 the last day of October. My wife’s taken the day off and we’ve planed to spend the whole day watching horror movies. Where do we start? … Continue Reading Kwaidan (1964) October 31st, 2020
In The Driller Killer artist Reno Miller (Abel Ferrara) struggles mirror those of every young creative professional: making art and paying bills. The stress of managing his artistic vision with … Continue Reading The Driller Killer (1979) October 27th, 2020
The Stuff mixes the aliens-replacing-people elements of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the aliens utilizing consumerism to take control of earth elements of They Live but funnier than both. … Continue Reading The Stuff (1985) October 27th, 2020
Dværgen or Abducted Bride is a Dutch dwarfsploitation/sexsploitation film most commonly known as The Sinful Dwarf. You may be wondering “Why is he reviewing a 70’s porno in the middle … Continue Reading Dværgen (1973) October 24th, 2020
I made a list of the films my wife and I watched last October and ranked them by their by their overall value. It’s a subjective unscientific method that gauges … Continue Reading Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974) October 20th, 2020
Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key is a giallo film. Giallo, Italian for yellow, became shorthand for the genre of pulp mystery-thriller novels with … Continue Reading Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972) October 19th, 2020
Testing positive for Covid-19 last October briefly forced my wife and I to quarantine in different houses. Enduring this inconvenience was aggravating for all the expected reasons associated with Covid-19 … Continue Reading Equinox (1970) October 16th, 2020
I’m nearly a year into recovering from last Halloween. Catching Covid plus becoming temporarily (thankfully) unemployed gave me more time to watch horror movies than to write about them. My … Continue Reading The Mummy (1959) October 15th, 2020
In Horror of Dracula, Hammer attempted to repeat the success of The Curse of Frankenstein by reunited Cushing and Lee with director Terence Fisher to tackle Universal’s next most popular … Continue Reading Horror of Dracula (1958) October 14th, 2020
We watched The Curse of Frankenstein last October. I’ve forgotten most everything about this movie in the 7 months since. Apparently there’s a nice Warner Archive Blu-ray release available for … Continue Reading The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) October 14th, 2020
I walked into Eyes Without a Face with high expectations. Maybe it was the the badass title? Maybe it was the compelling premise? Maybe it was a half remembered quote … Continue Reading Eyes Without a Face (1960) October 13th, 2020
I’d heard that Gremlins 2: The New Batch was a masterpiece satirizing sequels and consumerism. I’d heard Joe Dante didn’t want to make the sequel and only singed on to … Continue Reading Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), October 13th, 2020
Ah, mermaid horror, too weird to live too rare to die. The Lure is a loose adaptation of The Little Mermaid fairytale set in modern Poland. Two mermaid sisters venture … Continue Reading The Lure (2015) October 12th, 2020
Is a month of horror movies complete if you haven’t watched a Cronenberg movie? No, not unless you’ve seen them all… and then, ya know… watch something new… Luckily Dead … Continue Reading Dead Ringers (1988) October 11th, 2020
