Category: Movies & TV

Christmas Double Feature: A Christmas Horror Story (2015) and Red Christmas (2016)

December 19, 2022

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all you freaks out there! While most normal people at this time of year can probably be found gathering around the TV set in their jammies with their steaming cups of cocoa and their five millionth viewing of It’s A Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th Street, we horror nerds are carved … More Christmas Double Feature: A Christmas Horror Story (2015) and Red Christmas (2016)

Revisiting Thriller with Boris Karloff: Season 1, Episodes 21-26

December 12, 2022

All right, after my abortive last post, where I was only able to review episodes 19 and 20 of Thriller, someone informed me that pretty much all of the episodes in the series are on YouTube, an obvious platform which for some reason I had forgotten to check. So I’m back in business with another … More Revisiting Thriller with Boris Karloff: Season 1, Episodes 21-26

Movies: Nightwish (1989)

December 10, 2022

Imagine, if you will, a largely forgotten, late 80s psychological horror film with sci-fi and paranormal elements that legitimately feels like a very low-budget, proto-Inception that also tries to dabble in as many different subgenres as possible, containing flavors of Altered States, Alien, From Beyond, A Nightmare on Elm Street, a haunted house tale, a … More Movies: Nightwish (1989)

Double Feature: Creep (2014) and They Look Like People (2015)

December 9, 2022

It so happened that I had something of a “strange bromance” theme with today’s picks, which is odd because even though I generally choose movies I’ve heard positive things about through the grapevine, I mostly pick the movies at random, and I deliberately try not to read too much about the movies before I watch … More Double Feature: Creep (2014) and They Look Like People (2015)

70s Eco-Horror Double Feature: The Food of the Gods (1976) and Empire of the Ants (1977)

December 5, 2022

I have to confess that I’ve always had a soft spot for the cheesy 1970s eco-horror movies I repeatedly saw on cable growing up. There was just something about the concept of an ensemble cast of usually past-their-prime actors, pitted against a series of largely woeful special effects meant to convey armies of gargantuan critters … More 70s Eco-Horror Double Feature: The Food of the Gods (1976) and Empire of the Ants (1977)