Baddie: Nature v. Nurture Lesson: Have a long engagement. NOTE: Chris, of Second Breakfast, has written a rebuttal post to my critique of Crimson Peak. Read it here. In the time that has passed since I watched Crimson Peak, it’s been very difficult to pin down exactly how I felt about it. I love Guillermo del…
For this week’s article, I’ve decided to hop on the Octoberween bandwagon and write about some spooky animated films. And what better way to celebrate this time of the year than to write about a couple of films with the “Tim Burton” label on them? The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) has the lovely benefit of…
In this week’s special Capes on Camera edition of In the Roost, Will (Capes on Camera, A Bomb in the Lasagna) and Alex (The Tuesday Zone, Eldritch Adaptations) discuss the various screen adaptations of DC’s seminal horror comic Swamp Thing, from the B-movie charms of Wes Craven’s 1982 movie, to the decidedly less charming USA Network show,…
And the Octoberween celebration continues. I’ve been pretty busy lately, juggling school and work like so many juggling balls… two, I suppose. Day in and day out it’s just one thing after another and seldom, so seldom, do those things have anything at all to do with Halloween. Every now and then, perhaps, I can…
Baddie: Alchemist Law Lesson: Everything has a price. Guys, I love Guillermo del Toro and I love Ron Perlman, so you can imagine my delight when I discovered there was a movie made in the 90’s, by del Toro, starring Ron Perlman. This film is also del Toro’s feature film debut! What a great day. (As you…
Baddie: Activists! Who do they even help, really? Lesson: Maybe last minute trips to Peru to provoke some guys with guns wasn’t the -best- plan. I finally had a chance to see the long-awaited The Green Inferno in theaters, so enjoy this extra-special review in the midst of my 90’s Octoberween. The regularly scheduled programming will resume tomorrow as…
Few movie concepts appeal to me quite as immediately as the one behind the 1987 cult classic The Monster Squad does: a club of misfit kids obsessed with horror movies band together to fight classic movie monsters. Throw in a Shane Black script and –much to my delight– a charmingly bad rap theme, and you have the raw ingredients…
