For the third straight year I schlepped up to the Alamo Drafthouse in Yonkers for their annual horror marathon. I had been torn, because the Nitehawk had a pretty awesome lineup (which they announced well in advance), but the two events overlapped and I had to choose. Ultimately, the Nitehawk's event cost more than twice as much as the Drafthouse's ( Read more... )

For a few years now, I've been lucky enough to live sufficiently close to an Alamo Drafthouse Cinema so that I don't have to get on an airplane or drive for several hours to get there. The theater in Yonkers, though, still takes around 2 hours (one way) to get to, and that Brooklyn location needs to hurry up. Since a trip to Alamo Yonkers and back ( Read more... )

Okay, this is a full-on SPOILER-tastic post about Cabin In the Woods. I'll be talking about almost everything I can remember about the movie, including the ... it's not really a twist, because it's dropped right up front, but it's the crux of the movie and you might not want it spoiled if you're planning to see the movie eventually ( Read more... )

FYI, I'm working on a spoiler-laden review, but this post is spoiler-FREE. Yes, even this photo, which is from the first scene in the movie and which I post here as an example of the fact that this movie is not what you might think it is.


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It's been a while since there's been a Final Girl Film Club pick, and I *almost* let this one slip by, but thank goodness I didn't because I enjoyed the heck out of this slice of horror from the Golden Year of 1981.


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The original Fright Night came out in 1985 and I was a few weeks from 10 years old. I was decidedly not a horror aficionado and frankly the poster (and matching soundtrack album cover) was the scariest thing I'd ever seen in my life at the time. I stayed well away. I finally caught up with it a couple of years ago, when I did my series on ( Read more... )

Time for another round of Final Girl Film Club! This month's selection is the blaxploitation zombie flick Sugar Hill. Indicentally, the neighborhood in Harlem where I live is called Sugar Hill, so I felt a connection to this movie right off the bat. Also, this is a Samuel Z. Arkoff and AIP production (that's American International Pictures, not ( Read more... )

I'm still working out exactly how I feel about this movie - meaning that I'm trying to figure out if I merely love it or OMG LOVE it. I'm leaning toward the latter. There was something about the very end that was ... I don't want to say unsatisfactory, but it wasn't quite the "woaaaah" I was expecting after the twenty minutes that immediately ( Read more... )

It's been several months since I actually participated in the Final Girl Film Club in a timely fashion. I usually either watch the movie too late (which is pretty much every month) or just can't bring myself to write something about it (Hellbound and the annoyingness of Jackson and the dearth of Chuck Norris ass-kicking depressed me to no end). ( Read more... )

What, you thought I was done posting about horror movies just because it's not October anymore? WRONG! This was supposed to be for today's Final Girl Film Club, but a luxurious weekend sleep schedule kept me from watching this in a manner suitably timely for writing something in time for that. But I kind of dug this and it turned out I had ( Read more... )