Posts tagged "film"
Blerd Radio Presents: The Constant Conversations Podcast (Episode 6)

Blerd Radio Presents: The Constant Conversations Podcast (Episode 6)

Episode 6 of the Constant Conversations podcast features a conversation with film critic/blogger/fellow podcaster Tristan More.

V/H/S 2: Movie Review

V/H/S 2: Movie Review

Last year, the horror community found itself quite taken by a ramshackle little anthology of found-footage creep-outs, V/H/S; an exciting, high-concept parade of ghastliness, the gleefully nasty little collection found up-and-coming genre directors like Ti West, Adam Wingard, and Radio Silence helming a series of POV horror shorts tied together by a framing story about — I dunno, some douches finding some old VHS tapes or something. Either way, it was a good thing for horror fans, a delicious melange […]

The Purge: Movie Review

The Purge: Movie Review

It’s the #1 movie in America, and we have the review (and no, it’s not about bulimia…)

The 31 Days of Halloween, Days 27-28: Tales From the Crypt & Creepshow

The 31 Days of Halloween, Days 27-28: Tales From the Crypt & Creepshow

As the Halloween season draws to its glorious close, we revert to the well for the final weekend of the month: that’s right, we’re looking at more anthology films. Why, you ask? The answer is almost deceptively simple: because they’re awesome. And as I sit here writing this, fully aware that the impending hurricane currently stalking the east coast just may swipe this review right out of my hands, I’m keenly aware of what my wife and I are going […]

The 31 Days of Halloween, Days 23-24: Splinter & The Host

The 31 Days of Halloween, Days 23-24: Splinter & The Host

Yesterday, we discussed — among other films — Frank Darabont’s The Mist, which examined what happens when groups of people in extreme danger start to turn on each other. One of today’s films, Toby Wilkins’ Splinter, takes a bit of a different tactic: it examines what happens when disparate groups of people are forced to work together in the face of inexorable peril. The resulting film isn’t much cheerier, but it is a little more optimistic about the human condition. It’s […]

The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 19: Sleepaway Camp

The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 19: Sleepaway Camp

We discussed, way back on day 4 of this shindig, the intangible sense of pleasure a cheesy ’80s horror movie has to offer; while that entry,  Night of the Demons , makes its mark with irrepressible atmosphere and delightfully low-rent ’80s effects, today’s offering is a different beast. Sleepaway Camp‘s claim to fame is twofold: it’s one in a long line of Friday the 13th knockoffs, and it boasts a classic go-for-broke, left-field ending. Spoiler alert: it’s far from a good movie. But again, Night of […]

The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 17: Black Sabbath

The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 17: Black Sabbath

There’s something about a horror anthology that has always sucked me in. I remember distinctly my fourth-grade teacher reading aloud Alvin Schwartz’s immortal compendium of terrifying tales, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. It was a mean collection to read impressionable young minds, in retrospect — my favorite story was always “Harold”, a three-page yarn about a malevolent scarecrow that began as foreboding creep-out (scarecrows are eerie things to begin with, after all) and escalated quickly in its final paragraph, […]

The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 16: Jeepers Creepers

The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 16: Jeepers Creepers

A few days ago, we discussed I Know What You Did Last Summer , and how my penchant for retroactively viewing my earliest scares through rose-colored glasses often causes me to exaggerate a horror film’s potency in the present. Jeepers Creepers, released four years after Last Summer, is arguably of the same era, but it’s important to note the difference: remembering I Know What You Did Last Summer is often a lot kinder to it than watching it. Having seen Jeepers Creepers during the same time frame, […]

The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 15: Deep Red

The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 15: Deep Red

Regardless of what legendary giallo pioneer Dario Argento’s finest film is — I wager that most would say Suspiria, but Inferno gets a lot of love too — it’s hard to deny that his lurid, grotesque murder mystery Deep Red is among the most visually potent “slasher” movies of all time. That title, it must be said, is wildly appropriate: the red stuff flows freely and often. Arguably, Argento’s early career is a high-water mark for Italian horror cinema. He […]

The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 14: Dressed to Kill

The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 14: Dressed to Kill

One of my chief criteria for mounting this marathon was allowing myself a limited number of accepted classics. There are certain dummy-proof horror classics that populate every single list. Google it sometime; The Exorcist is the accepted #1, and the top 10 is usually a variety that includes Silence of the Lambs, Jaws, Alien, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Rosemary’s Baby, and often The Blair Witch Product as their token concession to the modern era. Which, yawn; sure, they’re all varying […]

The 31 Days of Horror, Day 13: I Know What You Did Last Summer

The 31 Days of Horror, Day 13: I Know What You Did Last Summer

Well, a fond farewell to you, horror movie fan credibility. It was nice to have you around. But before you take one look at my defense of this dead-fish Scream cash-in and decide that I don’t know what I’m talking about, I implore you to read on, and to hear me out on this. I suppose I was 10 when I was bitten by the bug. You guys know what I’m talking about — it’s the age at which I […]

The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 12: The Orphanage

The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 12: The Orphanage

We hear a lot about being haunted around Halloween. It’s a word often used to reference ghosts, and what they do when they’re stuck between planes of existence; it’s also how certain movies make us feel, especially when their specters loom over our psyche long after the end credits have rolled. This is why terminology is important: Juan Antonio Bayona’s superior ghost story The Orphanage is only scary intermittently (although when it does aim to scare, watch out), but it […]