31 Nights of Frights

All Apologies.

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Sometimes illness gets the better of you. Having been struck down earlier this month, I had hoped to catch up with my movie watching and reviews and bring on the 31 Nights of Frights you all know and love. Sadly that’s been unable to happen. Though I have about 5 or 6 reviews ready to go, catching up on another 10 movies plus writing about them seemed a task that was just bigger than me. So instead I have a proposal, I’ll do a Halloween countdown, adding daily content for your pleasure (Including reviews). So that way you get a little something from the site each day, like an advent calender without the cheap chocolate, but 100% more horror.

Sound like a deal?

Good.

31 Nights of Frights #2: Paranormal Activity 2

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USA: 2010

“Hey! Who left the front door open?”

Sequels are funny things. They’re almost uniformly made for the money, even the good ones. They’re also rigidly formulaic. The general rule of thumb is ‘Whatever worked in the first film, do it again.’. It’s the law of diminishing returns. Really about the only thing a film can do is improve the formula, not change it. So what does Paranormal Activity 2 do? Continue reading →

31 Nights of Frights #1: Lake Mungo

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Australia: 2008

“Alice kept secrets. She kept the fact that she kept secrets a secret.”

In the wake of The Blair Witch Project there were an immediate glut of releases (Some of which will be coming up I’m sure) that cashed in on the ‘found footage’ craze. While it wasn’t the first film to use that conceit, it’s not hard to argue the case that BWP, as the hip kids called it, effectively gave birth to the genre or at least the genre as it exists today.

These range from good ([Rec]) to mediocre (The St. Francisville Experiment) or just so bad they remain unreleased (The Poughkeepsie Tapes).

So which is Lake Mungo?

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Announcing: 31 Nights of Frights

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Ok friends lets put aside things like lack of updates and instead focus on what will be coming. Those of you with a calender have probably noticed that today is October 1st, and as has become tradition around these parts, October 1st generally means 31 Nights of Frights. What is it? Well it’s a horror film a day, sometimes more, and all sorts of scary content to get you in the mood for the best time of the year.

I’m going to try and avoid any repeats of previous years, though that’s getting a little harder these days. The first review will be up later today.

P.S. Given the heat in the UK right now, this does not feel like a time to be spooky at all.