Matt
I've been obsessed with horror movies since I was two years old and staring wide-eyed at all the hypnotic VHS covers at the local video store.
Slasher Month: Don’t Go into Those Woods, 80s Style!
THE FINAL TERROR (1983) Unfairly criticized slasher/Deliverance hybrid about a group of twenty-something forest rangers who run up against a homicidal mountain man while on a weekend training excursion in the woods. Utilizing Oregon’s Redwood National Forest setting to its…
Slasher Month: Intruder, Mountaintop Motel Massacre, and The Toolbox Murders
MOUNTAINTOP MOTEL MASSACRE (1983) Crazy old Evelyn (Anna Chappell), recently released from an institution, is trying to live a normal life with her teen daughter deep within the Louisiana bayou at the Mountaintop Motel. After she discovers the young girl…
Slasher Month – Italian Style!
DEEP RED (1975) The quintessential Italian slasher, this terrific murder mystery put Dario Argento on the map and took the giallo to new, respected heights. After witnessing the brutal murder of a renowned psychic (Macha Méril), who earlier foresaw her…
Slasher Month: Alice Sweet Alice, The Chill Factor, and Night School
ALICE, SWEET ALICE (1976) A wonderful mix of domestic drama, slasher flick, and overall hysteria. The death of nine-year-old Karen (Brooke Shields) at her first communion kicks off a string of brutal murders within a Catholic community by someone in…
End of the Year Wrap-Up
It was an interesting year for horror films in 2022. We got a few new classics, a few surprises, and two of the biggest franchise disappointments in recent years. We also got a glut of high-profile but incredibly mediocre films…
Twice Dead, Uninvited, Village of the Damned, and The Zodiac Killer
TWICE DEAD (1988) The down-on-their-luck Cates family inherit and move into a dilapidated Los Angeles manor, once owned by famous 1930s actor, Tyler Walker, who killed himself in the attic. When a gang of violent squatters are forced out of…
Dark Ride, Razorback, Man of a Thousand Faces, and The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh
DARK RIDE (2006) Tacky gore job about a group of lifeless college students on a spring break road trip who run into an escaped killer who’s hiding out inside an old boardwalk funhouse attraction where he murdered two young girls…
The Child, Homebodies, Sole Survivor, and Without Warning
THE CHILD (1977) A weird mix of Dark Shadows gothicism and George Romero zombie mayhem, this period piece centers on the strange Nordon family, who’ve hired young nanny, Alicianne (Laurel Barnett), to look after their youngest daughter, Rosalie (Rosalie Cox),…
Fright Night, Hatching, and More Guest Reviews
By Frank Pittarese FRIGHT NIGHT (1985) Suburban teen Charley Brewster discovers that his neighbor, Jerry Dandridge, is a vampire. Worse, Jerry knows that Charley knows. When no one believes him, Charley desperately turns to cowardly TV horror host Peter Vincent…
The Bad Seed, Blackenstein, The Pit, and Wolf Creek
THE BAD SEED (1956) One of the most famous movies about a killer child, this classic features a remarkably sinister performance by Patty McCormick as Rhoda, an amoral, malicious eight-year-old who goes about harming those who get in the way…