Directed By: J.S. Cardone

“Dreams don’t drag men out of bed in the middle of the night!”

As I get older I like to go more and more into my movie experiences blind. There had been a time when I would read issues of Fangoria or your preferred magazine of choice and would know everything about a movie before it came out. These days I’m not so keen. Give me a one-line summary, a trailer which doesn’t show too much and I’ll be good with that.

I appreciate not everyone is the same (Look at the furore over mother! recently), but it really can work in your favour. Take this evening’s movie. Google just tells us this, “Something unseen stalks a haunted artist (Sarah Kendall), her husband and two others on an island.” Well alright. So when you look at the year it was made and the poster above and you probably think you have a pretty good handle on it.

And then you’re pleasantly surprised.

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“It’s Halloween, everyone’s entitled to one good scare.”

Directed By: John Carpenter

Well, it had to be really. It’s a tradition. There were plenty of other movies I wanted to get around to, but they’ll have to wait for now and I couldn’t break with tradition. So it’s an evening with John Carpenter’s classic once again.

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“Asshole.”

Directed By: Sang-Ho Yeon

What more can be done with zombies? Decades of movies and now TV shows have pretty much shown us all there is. It says something that the biggest development in zombie-dom is that they can move fast (And even that isn’t all that new, in Night Of The Living Dead they move faster than usual, and in Return Of The Living Dead they can sprint and occasionally talk). But zombies have become a big deal in recent years, and so something new is needed.

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“I do love a good joke and this is the best ever: a joke on the children.”

Directed By: Tommy Lee Wallace

Somewhere in the archives of these various things I’ve written about this before. Like I said I’ve tried watching movies this time that I hadn’t seen before, but every now and then a man just wants to see Halloween III, and who are you to stop him?

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“Oh, you have no idea. Every night in this house, with just a whole family of Femms.”
(Trust me, this works better in the movie)

Directed By: William Castle

Well here we are, yet another appearance from William Castle. I honestly don’t plan these things. It’s strange, I have a recollection of watching The Old Dark House but I have no idea which one. I had reviewed the original some time ago, but that wasn’t it. Well actually I’m lying it must’ve been, seeing as there are only two versions.

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(If I could make this poster any bigger I would. It’s fucking glorious).

“You should be loyal to your heroes… they can turn on you.”

Directed By: Charles Martin Smith

Is this technically a Christine ripoff just with metal music instead of a car? Yes. And do we open with yet another instance of satanism? Why yes we do.

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“Melissa…”

Directed By: Jim Sotos

Sometimes you stumble across things that are not just good or bad, but sort of indefinable. Sweet Sixteen falls somewhere on that spectrum. Well actually, it probably falls across all three.

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“Why should you be afraid to die? Your soul has been dead for a long long time.”

Directed By: Roger Corman

And welcome finally to Roger Corman. Arguably the most successful producer of all time, Corman has worked in the industry for a staggering 60 years and gave a start to names such as Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Nicholson, James Cameron and Ron Howard. His list as a producer outweighs that of being a director, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t make some excellent movies. This, happily, is one of them.

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“There is no more foul or relentless enemy of man in the occult world, than this dead-alive creature spewed up from the grave.” (Take that, Twilight fans)

Directed By: Tod Browning

So we’re taking a trip way back, to just a couple of years after Dracula was released. And we have kind of a mash-up of genres. This is set up as a mystery first and foremost, being as we have a murder in a small Bavarian town, where the owner of a castle is murdered, drained of blood.

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