I’m actually kind of embarrassed to admit that I had never even heard of this movie (or the book on which it’s based) until someone recommended it to me a while back, telling me it was right up my alley. Said alley, or rather one of many alleys, concerns Victorian murder mysteries with real historical … More Movies: The Limehouse Golem (2016)
I’ve finally reached the first milestone on this long-ass journey through the horror movies of my lifetime; yep, 1982 marks a decade out from my auspicious birth, and also serves as a spot about a fifth of the way through this project. 1982 was another great year, and even though I didn’t have as many … More My Favorite Horror Movies from Every Year Since I Was Born: 1982
The 2008 Canadian film Pontypool is one I kept seeing pop up on various internet lists of underrated horror movies, and even though the premise always sounded intriguing to me, for some reason I never got around to watching the thing until just recently, when I noticed that Shudder had added it to their lineup. … More Movies: Pontypool (2008)
While I was casting about for today’s review subject, I suddenly remembered a movie that I watched way back in 2015 that I really dug, but hardly ever heard anyone talking about, either then or now. I originally happened across it back then while I was perusing the “best horror films” of particular years on … More Movies: Yellowbrickroad (2010)
The film we’re discussing today is actually not really a horror film per se, but more like a Coen-Brothers-style crime thriller interwoven with a sweet and understated romantic comedy/drama. The end result is not quite as strange as that sounds, and even though the juxtaposition of the two genres is an audacious one, particularly for … More Movies: Uncle John (2015)
Every once in a while, to get ideas for these reviews, I’ll idly browse through internet lists of underrated and underseen horror films, looking for an older movie I haven’t seen before. And it was during one of these browsing sessions that I stumbled across a 1977 flick that I had not only never seen, … More Movies: Scalpel (aka False Face) (1977)
Since I’ve already covered a pretty significant number of the great, good, and fairly decent horror films set on Halloween, I admit I was scrambling a bit to come up with something to review for this Halloween post that I hadn’t discussed before. So when I toddled over to Shudder and peeked in their Halloween … More Movies: Trick or Treats (1982)
A few months ago on this very site, I did a revisit on the Stephen King miniseries from 1999, Storm of the Century, after it randomly turned up on Hulu. At around the time I was watching that, I thought to myself how I’d really like to have another look at a later three-part miniseries … More Revisiting Stephen King’s Rose Red (2002)
Not too long ago, I did a massive mega-review of all five of the found-footage V/H/S films, which varied in quality but were mostly pretty solid (other than Viral, which I didn’t like much at all). Although I’m not the world’s biggest fan of found-footage horror in general, I was intrigued enough by the series … More Movies: V/H/S/85 (2023)
Whenever I hear about a movie that had a substantial amount of hype building up around it after its debut at a genre film festival, I tend to try to push the film up in my viewing rotation so I can see what all the fuss was about. So after I heard that the film … More Movies: A Wounded Fawn (2022)
The Scare Salon 