Continuing with my Italian horror theme – Demoni And Demoni 2 are two more films I was obsessed with in my teen years. Shortly after discovering Argento, I did some research (which in those pre-internet days meant visiting a lot of video stores and talking to people FACE TO FACE. Shocking, I know) that he
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Night of the Demons 1988 Vs. 2009 The 1988 version of Night of the Demons is by no means a masterpiece, but since it was released during my impressionable teenage years, I kind of love it. It’s slow-going and takes forever to get to the gore, but when it does, it’s a mix of terror
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 #13: Drag Me to Hell If there’s one man who knows how to do horror-comedy right, it’s Sam Raimi. So when the master of the The Evil Dead returned to his roots in 2009, I couldn’t have been happier—and Drag Me to Hell more than lived up to my expectations.
31 Horror Movies I Own: #1, Hellraiser I suspect that if you weren’t a teen or preteen when Clive Barker’s Hellraiser hit the horror scene, you’d view it now and think “This is fucking dated and cheesy and not scary at all”…and you’d be half-right. There’s no denying that it’s dated. 1987 was a fine
I FINALLY saw Paranormal Activity and it was exactly as I expected: good, but not as spectacular as the hype. Comparisons to The Blair Witch Project are right on target; this is a fine film made on a low budget with some decent scares, but it’s not without its flaws. There were a few things
The title might be cheesy, but it does accurately represent what’s going on in this film. The Midnight Meat Train is available On Demand right now – and I went into it expecting it to be seriously bad, and ended being pleasantly surprised. The plot is pretty decent, and there is more than enough splatter,
