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…
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…
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…
Thank the Lord… or, I guess whatever pagan deity is in charge of Halloween. Regardless, the month-long celebration of all things gruesome, horrific, and ghoulish, colloquially known as Octoberween and more commonly known as not a real thing, is finally upon us. Last year, as I’m sure at least one of you will recall, I…
Baddie: Serial killers who never ever learn. Lesson: I don’t even know. Extortion is bad? IT’S OCTOBERWEEN. This is my third Octoberween with Rooster Illusion and I hope you guys have enjoyed it just as much. I realized two things this year – One, I like theme months. Two, I’ve only reviewed three movies from the 90’s (It, Relic and Shark…
Number four. The magic number*. One is the loneliest, two can be as bad as one, and three? Who gives a shit about three? Aside from that being an “actual” magic number, three ain’t shit. Four. Yes, four. That’s where the magic happens. And it’s happening here, friends. Right now, from this blog to your…
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