\ Comforting nostalgia. Candy*. Halloween and Halloween-adjacent vibes. What does Octoberween mean to you, the people? Frankly, that’s none of our business. Here at Rooster Illusion, the Octoberween Headquarters of North America, Octoberween means only one thing: Fun for the whole family**. Many of our twelve dedicated readers will have fond childhood memories of Octoberweens…
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…
My favorite thing about Dark Harvest is how masterfully Slade uses chiaroscuro. It’s evident in 30 Days of Night as well as his “‘Hannibal” episodes, but the man is just really really good at it.
Octoberween X. We’re all feeling very old and learned, looking back on reviews we posted and opinions we had a decade ago and wondering why we had them. As I scroll through the Rooster Illusion backlog and time and memory dreg up ponderous questions about this and that, one in particular confounds me: how, in…
Because two times five is ten, the number of Octoberweens this is. You know, like in math. I’m sure our twelve dedicated readers are familiar with Octoberween, especially since it’s the only thing we do here now. They know that of all the fake holidays invented by film critics to sell greeting cards, ours is…
During this site’s very first Octoberween, approximately 10,000 years ago, I reviewed a little movie called Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Thanks to the magic of Search Engine Optimization, that ended up being one of my most popular reviews. As we say in the blogging business: “Dracula Sex Wolf Lucy” sells. As true now as it was…
I do not speak Spanish, so… not sure if the title of this post actually means anything. My apologies. Octoberween is a time for monsters, and where there are monsters, there really ought to be monster-fighters. Though I have repeatedly said—and maintain—that Peter Cushing’s Van Helsing is the greater monster-fighter ever put to screen, I’d…
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