You know, back in my day, they used to make horror movies for television. Isn't that weird? And I mean good, quality stuff, not this malarky the Sci-Fi channel - excuse me, SyFy (that hurts to type) - churns out. One shining example of made-for-tv horror is 1981's Dark Night of the Scarecrow. I'm pretty sure I never saw this back in the day ( ( Read more... )

This is Part 2 of my foray into the strange and disturbing world of modern French horror. I suppose this might be lumped in with the "torture porn" genre (man, I hate that term), but Martyrs has a surprising amount of depth and emotion that lifts it above the rest.


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So, I was going to do a big post on The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with some additional thoughts on Glee's loving homage, but what I'd REALLY like to do is draw your attention, if you haven't already heard it, to this recording of "Sweet Transvestite," as performed by Anthony Stewart Head. Yes, the very same man who played Rupert Giles in Buffy ( Read more... )

Today's scary movie features Scary-- I mean, Terry O'Quinn. He's very much a villain here, and I don't mean in a spoilery Sixth Season of LOST kind of way. I mean he is a BAAAAAAD MAN! This movie could so easily have wandered into Lifetime Original Movie Hell, what with its "this person is not who people think he is" plot, but thankfully, it is ( Read more... )

I love this movie to bits, and I care not who knows it. It's technically a three-quel, but not exactly, and for that reason, it's gotten a bit of a bad reputation. It's not what people were expecting, but what it is - if you can divorce it from the franchise it takes its name from - is a really great Halloween (the holiday, not the series) film ( Read more... )

It's one part sci-fi, two parts zombie flick, two parts 80s teen movie, one part TOM ATKINS, and all parts awesome. It's Fred Dekker's cult classic, Night of the Creeps.


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Horror movie sequels are rarely good as the originals that spawned them, and the Nightmare on Elm Street sequels are no exception. It is even rarer that a "part 3" - or three-quel, if you will - is anything but dreadful. The first sequel to the original Nightmare on Elm Street, while the idea behind it is pretty interesting (if baffling), is ( Read more... )

This is one of two posts I'm hoping to do on films from the recent new wave of crazy-ass French horror.


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Okay, this isn't really a scary movie, per se, but it's definitely in the spirit of Halloween, and this scene is one of my favorite musical moments in any film. When I was a kid, my best friend and I used to be obsessed with this movie and vied over which of us was more Lydia-esque. *shakes head ( Read more... )

Since it's Sunday, a day set aside by many for spiritual matters, I thought it fitting for today's October-themed post to be related to a particular sub-genre of horror - holy horror. The grandpappy of them all, of course, is William Friedkin's The Exorcist, which, if you're wondering, is pretty much scientifically proven or something to be the ( Read more... )