Part of the fun of Hooptober is because you have to meet certain criteria, you have to watch some films blind. Sometimes you get a film that blows you away and reminds you why you watch horror films. Sometimes you get horror films that also remind you why you watch them but not for conventionally... Continue Reading →
Being Film #11 for Hooptober 2022 If nothing else, Creature should impart just how influential Alien was to the science fiction and horror landscape. The film wears Ridley Scott's classic (as well as Howard Hawks's The Thing From Another World) on its sleeve, and there's no denying this was a film writer/director William Malone felt... Continue Reading →
Being Film #10 for Hooptober 2022 The world needs more variation in its Lovecraftian horror. So here is Glorious, a Shudder original that takes its tales of Elder Gods and puts it in a dirty rest stop restroom for almost the entirety of its runtime. But if you're going to do a bottle movie where... Continue Reading →
When I saw Zach Cregger’s Barbarian opening weekend, I immediately regretted it. Not because it’s a bad film, far from it. I’ll be honest, it’s my favorite horror movie of the year. What I regretted is that I didn’t wait to see it for Hooptober! The only solution was to see it again in theaters... Continue Reading →
CW; self harm Religious horror in the horror in the 21st century seems almost nonexistent. As a lapsed Catholic, I’m constantly drawn to horror films involving religious imagery. It won’t surprise you, there’s a lot. Most of the time, I’m just disappointed. My disappointment is that they’re rarely religious. Most of these films generally just... Continue Reading →
Being Film #9 for Hooptober 2022 The biggest surprise for me upon watching 1925's The Phantom of the Opera was how - 6 years before Universal horror really kicked off in the sound era with the 1-2 punch of Dracula and Frankenstein in 1931 - a lot of the style and mood of those classics... Continue Reading →
Being Film #8 for Hooptober 2022 A quick rundown of The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, Hammer's take on the Robert Louis Stevenson tale. As enjoyable as it may be, there are distracting elements that kept me from the velvety praise I typically heap on a Hammer production. One, it features Oliver Reed in a... Continue Reading →
Let me start with the following declaration; if you watch a Hammer horror film, you’ll want to watch ten of them. After watching The Satanic Rites of Dracula, I had to watch another Hammer produced horror film. Since that was Christopher Lee’s last Dracula movie, why not revisit his first? Rewatching Horror of Dracula, or... Continue Reading →
Being Film #7 for Hooptober 2022 Horror gets tricky when it comes to trying to extend it into animation. There's the ability to extend the imagination even further, but the remove from reality that even the best animation contains means that - at least for me - actual horror or fright is in short supply.... Continue Reading →
Hammer Horror holds a very special place in the hearts of genre fans. Hell, Kate Bush wrote a song about it. There isn’t anything else like these period horror films shot in glorious technicolor with that gorgeous bright red blood. These films aimed for a kind of “respectability”. The British actors in these may have... Continue Reading →
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