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For tonight’s movie, I’m hitting the Werewolf sub-genre again and finally checking out Hammer Horror’s take on the beast from 1961. This is from legendary director Terence Fisher and stars legendary actor Oliver Reed (In his first lead role). It also features a 12 tone serials score from Benjamin Frankel. That is, the score avoids …
Bride of Chucky is the sequel to “Child’s Play 3” and fourth installment of the Child’s Play franchise. It also the last Chucky movie not to be directed by it’s creator Don Mancini. As much credit as he deserves for the series, it’s notable it went downhill after he took the directing chair. While Mancini …
Tonight’s movie is the independent horror comedy “Street Trash” from 1987. Made on a budget of $100,000 ($274k in today’s money), making it at the cheaper end of the horror scale. Horror comedies are pretty easy to do at this price range since you can get away with goofy effects and bad acting providing the …
Oddity is an independent Irish horror written and directed by Damian McCarthy. Not quite sure how this one came to my attention but the last independent Irish horror I reviewed was the excellent “A Dark Song”, so that probably got me looking at other Irish horrors and this one came up. The film stars Carolyn …
The original “Fright Night” was a 1985 vampire movie and generally regarded as a classic of the sub-genre. Not the biggest vampire film of the 80’s, but it was well liked and relatively successful. A sequel was inevitable. Due to other commitments original director Tom Holland was not able to return and so Tommy Lee …
Britain has strong ties with Werewolf movies. The movie that established the rules of on screen lycanthropy was “Werewolf of London” (1935). The movie often regarded as the best Werewolf movie of all time is “American Werewolf in London” (1981), set in London and a co-production. If I was to list a top five Werewolf …
One of my favourite horrors from these October Challenges was “Pulse” (2001). A smart and emotionally deep ghost story that stuck with me a long time after I watched it. When I see a film like that I always check out the director and look for other movies. In this case the director was Kiyoshi …
Tonight I’m looking at another movie this year that has generated a lot of hype. That is “Good Boy”, a horror film entirely from the perspective of a pet dog. This was made as a side passion project by director Ben Leonberg. He used his own dog, Indy (Which is also his name in the …
Tonight’s horror film is one I’ve been putting off for a while. This is “House of the Devil” from writer/director Ti West. I put it off because I’d watched two of his films previously and frankly, hated both. But this had a lot of hype around it and I felt I should give the director …
Tonight’s movie is the original Mummy from 1932. Not to be confused with the now, more famous 90’s remake. That was a very loose remake, though not as loose as Alex Kurtzman’s debacle from 2017. The original Mummy was created to follow on from the success of Dracula and Frankenstein. Like those films it became …