Nobody epitomizes the perfect actor for Halloween better than Vincent Price. Over the years I've seen most (though still not all) of his films, but luckily for me, he also did quite a lot of television work over the years, so I've always got new Vincent Price gems to stumble upon. Today, I stumbled upon his one and only (so far as I know) ( Read more... )

Running through the remaining films of John Carpenter that I haven't already seen, I'm really getting into the dregs now. Still, Memoirs of an Invisible Man wasn't nearly as bad as I'd heard. Which is just to say that it didn't spend its entire 99 minute running time trying to kill my mom in front of me ( Read more... )

I'm just a few films shy of having seen every movie directed by John Carpenter (most of them lots and lots of times) and in my efforts to finish out the set, I finally got around to watching the 1978 TV movie Someone's Watching Me! (That exclamation point is in the title, not to indicate my excitement, though I am pretty excited, and I do love ( Read more... )

I tried really hard not to get too excited about Pacific Rim. I've been let down by Guillermo del Toro's big budget movies before (Hellboy 2, I am looking meaningfully in your direction) and while I love all monsters and grew up on Godzilla movies, the whole kaiju subgenre is no longer really in my creative wheelhouse the way it once was. But it ( Read more... )

I finally got around to seeing The Boogens, a movie whose existence has eluded me since I was a lad. Unfortunately, the post is full of pictures and YouTube videos and so it doesn't translate well to port it over. Check it out here, instead.

[For full effect, I recommend checking this thing out over on my website, where my screengrabs and captions and whatnot all show up.]My new favorite thing is listening to commentary tracks while I cook or wash dishes. It requires the exact right amount of my attention, and I can kind of see the TV from the kitchen, so I can look up occasionally to ( Read more... )

When I was very young (around 7, if I'm doing my math properly) I caught a few episodes of a syndicated horror anthology show called Monsters that I had to stay up late to watch. I don't remember how many episodes of it I actually saw, but I know that I saw at least two of them, because those two remained stuck in my memory for years. Or, parts of ( Read more... )

Man, I do not envy the people who were actually getting paid to write a coherent review of John Dies at the End. It seems like a difficult and ultimately unrewarding undertaking. This probably won't be one ( Read more... )

Now that I have a Blu-ray player, I finally rounded out my Guillermo del Toro collection by picking up Mimic. (I'd been waiting to get the Blu-ray-only director's cut, since it was the only version that had a commentary track, and really, the commentary tracks are at least half the reason you buy a GdT movie, especially Mimic.) And since my timing ( Read more... )

I liked Repo: The Genetic Opera, Darren Lynn Bousman and Terrance Zdunich's previous musical horror collaboration, and I like stories about dark carnivals, so when I first saw a trailer for The Devil's Carnival some time back, I was pretty excited. But like with a lot of movies, it flew under the radar and made its way onto home video and streaming ( Read more... )