We’re kicking off this year’s Octoberween festivities with a recent South Korean monster movie that is absolutely bonkers. Hope (2026): Director: Na Hong-jinScreenwriter: Na Hong-jinStarring: Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, Hoyeon, Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander The Plot: Rural police chief Beom Seok (Hwang Jung-min) starts off his day investigating a mutilated cow. Local hunters, led by…
Ah, Octoberween. I know what you’re all thinking: “It really isn’t fall until Rooster Illusion starts writing about horror and horror-adjacent cinema.” We don’t know how it happened, but our humble blog became a lode-bearing component of the Western autumnal festival season. Without us, it would probably be Christmas already (if store displays are anything…
It’s Halloween, and we’re bringing our most jam-packed Octoberween in years to a close. Second Breakfast shared a delightful double feature with two very different takes on Frankenstein. I roamed across time and tone to bring you reviews of 28 Years Later; Fido; Good Boy; Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack; Lake…
Today’s Dracula vampire is brought to you by France (by way of Russia). The Vourdalak (2023): The Plot: The Marquis d’Urfé (Kacey Mottet Klein), an emissary of the King of France, takes refuge with a strange peasant family after being waylaid by bandits in 18th-century Eastern Europe. Told to seek aid from the elderly Gorcha…
Dracula’s Daughter (1936): The Plot: Immediately following the events of Dracula (1931), Dracula’s “daughter”, Countess Marya Zaleska (Gloria Holden), searches in vain for a cure for the vampire’s curse, which lingers even after the Count’s death. Meanwhile, Professor Von Helsing (Edward Van Sloan and yes, it really is Von Helsing in the movie) is arrested…
After Wednesday’s review of one of the more serious Godzilla movies, Rooster Illusion is letting its proverbial hair down with an ultra-low budget horror comedy from the team behind recent silent slapstick masterpiece Hundreds of Beavers*. Lake Michigan Monster (2018): The Plot: Eccentric drunk Captain Seafield (director Ryland Brickson Cole Tews) assembles a motley crew…
I’ll be switching things up a bit this week with some good old fashioned giant monster mayhem. This one’s even kind of a ghost story. Make sure to check in on Friday for my review of Lake Michigan Monster, a very different creature feature. Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001): The…
