Horror Flick of the Week: Wake Wood (2009)

I recently (and by recent, I mean last October) joined a fantastic Discord group, where we chat about horror, and watch what essentially amounts to a crap-load of horror movies with a heavy dose of the bad outweighing the good. Don't get me wrong, though, I love watching the bad ones. We're not walking into our little streaming theatre with any concept that they're all going to be winners.

Anyway, on St. Patrick's day, in honor of Irish horror, I hand-selected a bunch of pretty fun movies. The good. The bad. The downright ugly...this one was one of the best. In fact, I'd frankly say it was the scariest, too.

Even though I myself have never been a parent, and very likely won't be for quite some time, I can't imagine there is any greater real terror or tragedy a parent can face than losing their child. This movie takes that idea, throws in some very...odd Irish villagers, gold old-fashioned dark magic with Celtic influences for good measure, and the ever delicious element of 'breaking the rules' that leads to the most deliciously dark consequences. I'd like to tell you more, but it's a fairly simple and straight-forward story you'll have to discover for yourself.

Horror Flick of the Week: Train to Busan (2016)

I'm going to preface this with a quick 'I didn't actually want to see this movie in the first place, I'm tired of zombies, they've never even been at the top of my list for monsters in general.' But...damn it...this one was awesome. It touched on every little point you need in a good horror adventure. I thought I was honestly about to watch Snowpiercer 'with zombies!'

This was one of the few times I was glad to be proven wrong. Not to mention, my favorite South Korean actor (Gong Yoo) gets a pretty juicy role in it, too.  I really don't want to go into much detail, because it's just a movie you need to watch star to end on your own, but let's just say if this movie was a video game, I'd probably play it until the disc melted.

The Bloody Pit of Horror: Hidden Gems: 20 Great Overlooked Films of the 80s

The Bloody Pit of Horror: Hidden Gems: 20 Great Overlooked Films of the 80s: INTRO The unloved. The ignored. The misunderstood. The barely released. The unclassifiable. The obscure. This countdown is all about g...

Horror Flick of the Week: Christmas Evil (1980)

Tis the season, isn't it? No, I'm not generically recommending this movie because it's horror and Christmas related. I actually finally got around to watching it because someone else couldn't stop talking about the damned thing. Honestly, I expected a slasher. That's all. A slasher with a guy in a Christmas suit...I didn't expect to actually care about the guy in a way, or to actually find a real moral behind most of the story. I certainly didn't mean to find out the true meaning of Christmas.

But...I did, I did, and I definitely did.

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If you've done Black Christmas (the original and the remake) to death, don't find Gremlins has enough bite to it anymore, and could very well strangle the next teeny-bopper with a Jack Skellington wrist bracelet, then maybe check out Christmas Evil this year.

In a way, Krampus almost tried to communicate a little of what I got from Christmas Evil, but they were too caught up in the flash, the spectacle, etc. This one had a great balance. I couldn't help but think as I watched it that 'yeah, if a guy really did decide to become Santa Clause, this is probably how he'd do it.'

Horror Flick of the Week: Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

The 70s. Glamour and glitz, a decade with perhaps the most experimentation in materials, colors, and style fashion has ever really seen. Drugs, discos, sequins, furs, scandals, decadence...yes, the 70s had it all in a way the burning-out 80s didn't quite recapture in quite the same way. Perhaps that was why this movie worked so well.

It's easy to overlook this movie with a glance, a quick perusal of the description, just a story about a glamorous photographer and a murderer who seems to be copying pose-for-pose every single element of her almost gruesome works. If I had to pick an American movie that really nailed the essence of giallo's style, it would be this one. Please, do yourself a favor and watch this movie as soon as possible. It will stick with you forever. Plus, there's a very young Brad Dourif making an appearance in it as well, and who doesn't love Brad Dourif? Did I mention John Carpenter wrote the initial story-line and early script?

Happy Halloween! Short Film: Don't Feed the Scarecrow

Whew! What an exhausting month, huh, guys? Well...it's Halloween, and before you set up for your spooky party, your haunted house, your trick or treating adventure...why don't you settle down, relax, grab a bowl of popcorn...and enjoy my little slice of silver screen horror...

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In a quaint 1950s town in rural Indiana, a witches coven was interrupted at the height of evil, and a curse was born. For 25 years, the curse was all but forgotten, until a Stranger walked in out of the rain one October night, and this once-sleepy town will never be the same...

- Dusty Crosley

Horror is an ever-evolving monster (pun aside), and one can't help but think how well the genre suits just about every format, from print, to screen, to art, projection, radio, music, etcetera. I don't think there has ever been a time when the genre had so much innovation or incredible variety as we're seeing today. When I found this kickstarter, my breath was taken away by the eery beauty of the pictures in the video above. Frankly, I think you would be doing your self a disservice by not checking this project out.

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