When we last saw our dear Count Dracula, he’d just died the illest death. So sick. Scars of Dracula (1970) gave Count Dracula plenty to do: savage murders, commanding animals, drinking blood, and—most importantly—he overcame that most horrid of existential obstacles: teenagers named Paul. Capping that all off with pretty rad demise, the Count was…
Last week, we began by watching one really good Dracula movie and one pretty good Dracula movie, and we learned that with the absence of Peter Cushing’s Van Helsing, Christopher Lee’s Dracula is unable to die in a particularly dignified fashion. But, he has five more appearance in this franchise, so plenty of opportunity to…
By 1958, American movie studios had largely gravitated away from the classic monsters that ruled the horror genre in the ’30s and ’40s. Until slashers became dominant in the late 1970s, American horror merged in elements of sci-fi, and plucky young heroes battled aliens and nuclear mutants instead of the supernatural, for the most part.…
I really like Mike Flanagan’s tv exploits. I thoroughly enjoyed ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ and I sobbed at ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’. I was beyond thrilled to see the next series would be set in a fishing village because that’s very much (/horror Learns About The Matriarchy With “Blow The Man Down”) my…
Unfortunately, I already used the headline “Edgar Allan Poesers” (for which I cannot take credit) back in 2016 while reviewing Extraordinary Tales. It would apply extremely well here. The Raven (2012) The Plot: When a string of grisly murders mirroring the work of Edgar Allan Poe hits Baltimore, police inspector Fields (Luke Evans) enlists the…
It’s worth noting this is ‘Spiral: From the Book of Saw’ and not the ‘Spiral’ (2019) from Shudder. Happy Octoberween y’all! Some of you may remember that I have previously endured all seven Saw movies (Part One and Part Two). I marathoned them again in the pandemic because here in America (specifically Texas) we’re in…
We’re back! Another year, another October, another Octoberween. Everybody has their own way of getting in the mood for Halloween (everybody who does get in the mood, anyway), and my personal preference is with spooky movies. Of varying spook factor. Sure, I love me something genuinely scary, like John Carpenter’s Halloween, and I love kid-friendly…
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