Another Octoberween draws to a close. Ah, the passage of time. Makes ya think. As always, we had a blast getting in that holiday spirit. Second Breakfast re-visited Van Helsing, a bangin’ good time if there ever was one, and also the movie that taught me Frankenstein’s Monster could speak. Go figure. Sarah returned with…
Yesterday was William Shakespeare’s birthday. More importantly (this year), it was his 400th deathday. I feel like we ought to commemorate those more often. I guess it’s considered more cheerful and positive to do birthdays… yeah, fair enough. IMDb reckons there have been over one thousand films and TV shows based on Shakespeare’s works, including…
A few weeks ago an indie horror movie called The Witch (for a full review click here) hit theaters in the US, which means that it only just came out in the UK a few days ago. I saw it, I liked it, and—truly the mark of any good film—it made me think. What did…
Tim Burton is by no means my favorite filmmaker, and I personally am not that big of a fan of his movies, but I do like talking about them. This is why I find myself writing yet another article about a stop-motion animated, horror-comedy film by Tim Burton. Like The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse…
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…
Ex Machina (2015) The Plot: Upon winning an employee lottery at the largest software company in the world, Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a young programmer, gets an all-expenses-paid visit to the isolated pseudo-futuristic home of the company’s founder and president, Nathan (Oscar Isaac). Before long, Caleb realizes that his reward is far from a comfortable vacation…
Baddie – Convoluted horror plots. Lesson – Pick one thing. ONE. The Lazarus Effect had a lot of promise. A contemporary Frankenstein, or all the Lovecraftian implications of Re-animator. It has a stellar cast with American Horror Story‘s Evan Peters, Community‘s Donald Glover, the ethereal Olivia Wilde, and The Mindy Project‘s Mark Duplass. The methodology was solid.…
Rooster Illusion 