I’m finally getting back to this series after who knows how long, and if you’re keeping track, that means we’ve arrived at the exalted year of 1984, the year I turned twelve years old. A lot of fantastic movies came out that year, but my top five were pretty easy picks this time around. As … More My Favorite Horror Movies from Every Year Since I Was Born: 1984
Well, it’s the most wonderful time of the year (October!), so I figured I’d better start focusing on some more Halloween-specific media in the lead-up to the big day (although naturally, speaking as a longtime goth/horror nerd, Halloween is and will always be all year long). I honestly felt like I’d covered most of the … More Movies: Dark Harvest (2023)
During one of 13 O’Clock’s fun, infamous, drunken Friday night Sidetracks livestreams, a listener in the chat recommended a new horror film that had recently dropped on Shudder: the 2024 Irish supernatural murder mystery Oddity. There was a lot of buzz about this film when it debuted at South by Southwest in March; it even … More Movies: Oddity (2024)
So I kept seeing this wonderfully cheesy, 80s-soap-opera-looking horror movie popping up every time I scrolled through Amazon Prime. I could tell it was made for TV just by the presence of a big-haired Susan Lucci on the movie poster and the lovably cheapjack design of the thing, so you knew I had to get … More Movies: Invitation To Hell (1984)
Returning to my newer international horror movie kick for this review, I decided to take a look at a film that had piqued my interest when I saw it pop up on Shudder a little while back. I hadn’t pulled the trigger on it immediately, but it so happened that a few days later, a … More Movies: The Devil’s Bath (2024)
Yeah, yeah, I know I’d been on a “new international films” kick with my past few reviews, but for this one, I decided to get back to a genre I’ve been sadly neglecting for quite a while: good old 1970s giallo goodness. Shudder has a decent selection of some more obscure titles, so I chose … More Movies: My Dear Killer (aka Mio Caro Assassino) (1972)
As I mentioned in my post about Thriller episodes, I’ve decided to switch to a one-episode-at-a-time format for both my Thriller series and this Night Gallery series, rather than the six-episode chunks I was tackling before. It’s just a lot less daunting and time-consuming overall. Hope y’all don’t mind. So when we last left Night … More Revisiting Night Gallery: Season 2, Episode 13 – “The Messiah on Mott Street/The Painted Mirror”
Yet another film I had seen a lot of buzz about before noticing it pop up on Shudder recently was the 2023 creature feature Infested. It’s a French film, initially released under the title Vermines, and is the full-length directorial debut of Sébastien Vaniček. The movie got overwhelmingly positive reviews and was financially successful during … More Movies: Infested (aka Vermines) (2023)
I figured it had been a minute since I’d gone delving into Shudder’s newer international fare, so I took a quick look around the internet for some recommendations on the best films currently available on the platform. And pretty universally at the top of many horror sites’ lists was the 2024 South Korean supernatural folk … More Movies: Exhuma (2024)
Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent burst onto the horror landscape back in 2014 with her outstandingly creepy and well-received metaphorical horror film The Babadook (which I reviewed here), so when it came time for her sophomore effort to hit theaters, the community was abuzz, wondering what spooky delights she would come up with this time around. … More Movies: The Nightingale (2018)
The Scare Salon 