The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
We’re dialing it wayyyy back for a special pre-Code film* adaptation of the 1924 short story “The Most Dangerous Game”. Time for Halloween film #25…. The Most Dangerous Game. A luxury liner wrecks off...
View ArticleFuture World (2018)
For a crap-tastic postapocalyptic Mad Max derivative, look no farther than Future World (2018), directed by–and starring–James Franco. Life in California looks pretty bleak following a devastating...
View ArticleSuspiria (2018) *SPOILERS*
If you remake/reimagine/reboot/reconfigure/reinterpret it, they will come… or at least that’s the hope with 2018’s Suspiria. It’s Halloween film #26. You all know the story, a girl from a Mennonite...
View ArticleThe Monster Squad (1987)
A bunch of horror movie-obsessed kids start a club in a treehouse and have to save their hometown from, you guessed it… Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Gill-Man, The Mummy, and The Wolf Man....
View ArticleSpontaneous Combustion (1990)
The late horror master Tobe Hooper (helmer of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) is here to tell a fascinating story of doomed love, human experimentation, atomic bomb testing, psychotelekenisis, and the...
View ArticleEli Roth’s History of Horror (2018)
Halloween viewing is a strange thing. I’ve failed to finish more than a few movies this run*. But I have managed to catch the first four episodes of Eli Roth’s docu-series History of Horror on AMC and...
View ArticleThe Terminator (1984)
For an optimistic glimpse into the not-so-distant future, I chose Halloween film #30… a genre classic and a film that was deemed important enough to be archived by the Library of Congress in the...
View ArticleMandy (2018)
2018 brought what has to be the best performance of Nicolas Cage’s career — this is technically a re-view review of the heavy metal psychedelic, strange-trip, hallucinatory...
View ArticleRoma (2018)
Roma is a film that was beloved by critics and audiences at film festivals alike that Netflix didn’t have a huge theatrical plan for — but now they’re doing a limited engagement and I think it deserves...
View ArticleYou Just Sunk My Submarine!
Dollar movie stalwart Gerard Butler leads a US submarine and narrowly avoids nuclear war with (crooked) Russia during a Siberian military coup in 2018’s Hunter Killer. This movie, for obvious political...
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