The year I turned thirteen was another great year for horror, and yet again, I have an equal number of honorable mentions as top five picks, making this technically a top ten. Oh well. My honorable mentions include: The Bride: Loosely based on The Bride of Frankenstein (so, y’know, based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein) and … More My Favorite Horror Movies from Every Year Since I Was Born: 1985
Even though my formative years coincided with the 1980s and even though I’ve always been a sucker for a good made-for-TV horror movie, I admit I had never even heard of 1985’s The Midnight Hour until someone recommended it on a livestream chat. Originally aired on ABC on November 1st, 1985, the film is a … More Movies: The Midnight Hour (1985)
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
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)
A couple of weeks back, I got an email from an author named Seann Barbour, who was offering me an ARC of his upcoming horror novella, The Last Day, which is due to be published on October 23, 2023. Naturally, I accepted, and because it was shorter than the book I was already reading, I … More Books: The Last Day by Seann Barbour
I feel as though I’ve covered a great deal of American, British, Italian, Asian, and French horror on this site, but one country’s offerings that I’ve mostly neglected thus far is Spain, a nation that also had something of a horror boom in the 1970s, which was in fact largely kicked off by the classic … More Movies: Tombs of the Blind Dead (1971)
1979 was another hell of a year for amazing horror, giving us everything from what is easily one of the best sci-fi horror movies ever made to a bizarre and original new franchise starter; from a coldly grotesque body horror epic to a gut-munching gore masterpiece; from two stellar but very different adaptations of the … More My Favorite Horror Movies from Every Year Since I Was Born: 1979
We’ve reached the year of 1978, the year I turned six years old, and once again, I have a whole smorgasbord of horror goodies to choose from, necessitating another long list of honorable mentions. So before we get into the entrées, I offer a few hors d’oeuvres in the form of the very decent sequel … More My Favorite Horror Movies from Every Year Since I Was Born: 1978
In my recent discussion of the V/H/S series of films, I admitted that I wasn’t the biggest fan of found footage, but did concede that there were several examples of the subgenre that I quite enjoyed, including the one we’re discussing today, which I saw years ago but somehow never got around to reviewing. The … More Movies: [•REC] (2007)
I remember back in 2006 when the zombie comedy Fido first came out, I was really interested to see it. It looked like a hilarious concept, it starred the delightful Scottish comedian Billy Connolly as one of the lumbering undead, and I was still feeling residual goodwill toward the zombie comedy genre, as the classic … More Movies: Fido (2006)
The Scare Salon 