Directed By: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer and Basil Dearden.
A architect has been invited to a Stately Home for the weekend to complete some work. He arrives uncertainly and appears to know his way around even though he hasn’t been there before. There are other guests in the house and the man reveals that he’s seen them all in a recurring dream he’s been having, and it doesn’t sound like it ends well.
Well we had a good run dear reader.
Sometimes other things take over, and in this case it was life. As well as a book. I love doing 31 Nights of Frights and I love writing about movies, so the thought of leaving it for a year didn’t come easily. I thought that I could do it in between everything else I was doing and sadly it’s not been the case.
I’ll still be updating this old place (I have a Gone Girl essay coming up soon) and I’ll try and do a little something before Halloween, but in the meantime I’m going to be hard at work bringing you guys a book that I hope you enjoy.
Rest assured, this feature will be back next year, but until then lets listen to the Monster Mash and carve up some pumpkins.
So, what goes up has to come down I guess.
What do you do when you have a runaway success? You greenlight that sequel as quickly as you can and knock it out the next year. Now does that speak to the quality of the movie? Well…yes. Yes it does.
So where was I?
Oh right, I was watching stuff and writing about it. I got the watching done, but not so the writing. Those who follow me on Twitter know I’m working on some other things so updates to this might be a bit sporadic. Anyway, without further ado, let’s go to the woods and get crazy!
I hadn’t intended to watch this originally, but one of the pleasures of browsing Netflix is where you stumble across this previously hard to find movie that was lumped in with the slasher genre, even though it preceded it by a good few years.
Based upon the true story of The Moonlight Murders, a spree of killings that haunted the town of Texarcana, Texas, The Town That Dreaded Sundown strings them together in some sort of loose narrative. The opening narration promises that “Only the names have been changed“. That’s largely untrue and a lot of ‘facts’ about the case have come as a result of stuff they made up for the movie, but the end result ends up being a sort of precursor to David Fincher’s Zodiac. Continue reading
This is the second movie I’ve covered that’s called Evidence and unsurprisingly it’s also another to add to the found-footage pile. It’s also the third Evidence in the last 3 years. I’m not sure if there’s another one in production for 2014, but come back next year to find out.
With The Guest currently in cinemas wowing crowds (Seriously, it’s a lot of fun), it’s time to look at the previous movie from the Director/Writer duo of Adam Wingard and Simon Barret.
Welcome faithful reader. It’s that time of year again, a time for pumpkin spice latte and walks in the park. The nights are coming in earlier, and the temperature is dropping. It’s the best time of the year and, more importantly, it’s time for 31 Nights of Frights (Alternate titles: Shocktober, Horrorthon, Halloween Havoc). So without further ado, lets get to it.
Directed By: John Carpenter
“Death has come to your little town, sheriff.”
I couldn’t resist. I tried viewing something else but the allure is too strong. So this year, again, I’ve watched Halloween. It’s appropriate after all, like watching A Christmas Carol or Die Hard over Christmas. There’s really nothing better for getting in the mood than a good movie. So even after all this time what can I say about it? Well nothing I’ve not said before and on numerous occasions. The movie just works. After countless viewings I’m always finding something to appreciate.
Directed By: Michael Dougherty
“Always check your candy.”
I guess it was the news that it was getting a sequel that made me want to watch it, but I couldn’t help diving into the world of Trick ‘R Treat again for Halloween. It seemed the most appropriate time of the year to watch it after all.
Is This Thing On? 