31 Horror Movies I Own #29: Dead Alive (AKA Braindead) My second favorite Peter Jackson film (Heavenly Creatures is the first), Dead Alive is a hilarious 1992 blood-fest from the LOTR master that makes me extremely happy. Shy Lionel Cosgrove is trying to escape his overbearing mother’s clutches so he can woo the girl of
Category: 31 Horror Movies in 31 Days
31 Horror Movies I Own #28: A Nightmare on Elm Street “I’m your boyfriend now, Nancy” I’ve written previously about my love for A Nightmare on Elm Street, but I wanted to reiterate how AWESOME the original 1984 movie is. Wes Craven created one badass sicko in the form of Fred Krueger, which is why
31 Horror Movies I Own #27: An American Werewolf in London Another horror-comedy, An American Werewolf in London is the film that kicked off my obsession with gory special F/X. College backpackers David and Jack are hiking across some spooky, fog-covered moors in England when the stumble upon a pub called “The Slaughtered Lamb”, and
31 Horror Movies I Own #26: Rosemary’s Baby Featuring the most frightening old people I’ve ever seen (with the exception of the rigor mortis smiling couple in Mulholland Dr.), Rosemary’s Baby is a beautifully filmed piece of terror-inducing thrill. Rosemary Woodhouse couldn’t be happier about being pregnant with her first child, until all her new
31 Horror Movies I Own #25: Wolf Creek One of my greatest fears is being stuck out in the middle of nowhere being tormented by a sadistic mad man, with no possible hope of escape or finding help. So, uh, needless to say, Wolf Creek succeeded in scaring the pants off of me. This is
31 Horror Movies I Own #24: Scream Outside of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Wes Craven’s 80s track record wasn’t really so great. Deadly Friend, Shocker, The People Under the Stairs—sure, these are all kind of hilarious, but not even a little bit scary. So in 1996 when all the hype surrounding Scream started, I
31 Horror Movies I Own #23: Audition (Odishon) True story: when I went to rent Audition from my local video store, the guy took one look at me and said, “Are you sure you want this one? I mean it’s really violent. REALLY REALLY horrible stuff happens. Like, I almost threw up while I was
31 Horror Movies I Own #22: Phantasm Okay, okay, I know. Phantasm is not really that scary…it’s just completely bizarre, but I love it because of all its hilarious glory. This 1979 low-budget gore-fest was the brainchild of Don Coscarelli, who managed to put together something that would become a cult classic, mainly due to
31 Horror Movies I Own #21: Saw There are plenty of people will disagree with me, but despite all the ridiculous sequels, I really enjoy the first Saw. Although it is sometimes hard to sit through the sub-par acting of the two leads (particularly Cary Elwes and his forced American accent), when it was released,
31 Horror Movies I Own #20: Carrie (1976) Almost everyone is probably familiar with the blood-soaked fiery Prom at the end of Carrie. But I’m hear to tell you, if you haven’t seen the whole film in its entirely, you’re missing out. In a scene that reminds me exactly why I hated high school, the
I Love Splatter! 