Ah, Octoberween. T’was ever a month so splendid as thou art? Yowza. The leaves are falling and gathering in ghostly breezes to follow along the heels of college students late at night and make them think that a witch is coming. Candy is cheap, decorations are expensive, and cereal turns milk into some truly funky…
In a world where found footage films have finally worn out their grace period of originality and creativity, we now find ourselves repeating the same strange errors over and over again. The earliest found footage films, shot either in documentary or casual hand-camera style, were conducive to effective horror films, in an attempt to make…
Baddie: Nature. Australia will kill you with nature. Lesson: Movies about giant monster crocodiles are finally living up their potential. All of Octoberween, SciFridays will be reviewing Australian horror films to honor the delightful movies from that delightful continent. This week is no exception. I’m very excited about this week’s movie, because I’ve actually been…
“It was on a dreary night in November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life about me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the…
Baddie: All men, regardless. Apparently. Lesson: Sometimes a sleepy movie never really wakes up. Ahh, the marathon of outback horror continues. (For those newcomers to the column, all of Octoberween, SciFridays will be reviewing Australian horror films to honor the delightful movies from that delightful continent). The film opens with some very annoying papyrus subtitles…
Well, the internet is FREAKING out about Sleepy Hollow. So much so that Fox has renewed it for a second season already! Then again…The Following is getting a second season too. I remain unsold. This week begins with a flashback – but more importantly it begins with a sonnet. Ichabod, being from the past, is much…
Man, did any of you read my review of The Place Beyond the Pines? It was a while back, a few months. I made a point in my opening paragraph about how that movie starred Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper, two men who are widely considered among the most attractive alive, and how that was…
