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We’re back to the world of 80’s horror again. This is 1980’s “Maniac” from director William Lustig, who would go on to create the Maniac Cop franchise in the late 80’s. The story is by Joe Spinell who also stars as the titular character. Spinell is mostly known as an actor. Cinematography is by Robert …
“Stoker” (2013) is a movie that’s been on my watch list for a long time. This is director Park Chan-wook’s English language debut. This is the director of “Old Boy” (2003), a deeply disturbing, yet compelling revenge thriller that takes taboo to the extreme. This movie has a number of unique elements to it’s production. …
Tonight we’re hitting the 50’s. The era that popularized science fiction horror. It paved the way for films like Alien, Terminator, Pitch Black, Event Horizon and even Terrorvision. In most cases these early sci-fi horrors were more firmly science fiction with horror elements where as now it’s more the other way around. This is “The …
For tonight’s movie I’m hitting two classic Halloween elements at once. One is a Universal Monsters movie and the second is Vincent Price. This was Price’s fourth movie role and his first horror. Yes, this is Vincent Price’s first horror. Of course since he plays the titular character, you don’t actually see him for the …
For tonight’s movie I’m checking out the Russel Crowe lead exorcism horror “The Popes Exorcist”. This is a fictional story, based on a real life exorcists experiences. Specifically that of Father Gabriele Amorth. Perhaps the most famous real life exorcist, who has written multiple books on his experiences. The film stars Russel Crowe as Amorth, …
1981 was the year the slasher film firmly established itself as a horror genre. Friday the 13th part II introduced us to an adult Jason Voorheese. We also had “The Burning” and “My Bloody Valentine” and tonight’s horror movie “The Prowler”. While The Burning aimed for the Friday the 13th style holiday camp bloodbath, The …
For tonight’s movies I’m heading back to the world of giallo and an early film from horror legend Dario Argento. This is “The Bird With The Crystal Plumage” from 1970. The film usually credited with both launching Argento’s career and popularizing the giallo sub-genre internationally. Really, I should have watched this years ago, but I’m …
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 …