During the 80’s and early 90’s, Topps trading cards released cards relating to everything from Gremlins, to Garbage Pail Kids (Which could really do with a whole horrific entry of its own) to Michael Jackson. Basically, if it was big then Topps were there with some trading cards, a few stickers and some bubble gum.
Reviews
Night #30: Halloween
Is it sacrilege to watch Halloween not on Halloween? I’ve been doing it for so many years now that I almost guilty when I don’t. But here we are, all grown up and breaking all the rules.
Night #29: Return Of The Living Dead
When I was younger I always put off seeing this film, not because I was scared or anything like that, but because I always thought there was a film just called Living Dead and that this was a sequel. Well the joke is on me of course because what I was missing out on was probably the best zombie film made to date.
Night #27: Noroi
I think this might be the first foreign language film on the list this year, which is bad form on my part. There was a time where I viewed a lot of films from around the world, not just horror, and I still do. But there was a particular time where I was watching horror from our Asian friends, so it’s a surprise that this film slipped out of my grasp initially.
Night #26: Poltergeist
Back before ET started shooting (About 5 months in fact), Steven Spielberg stopped quickly to make this film about a suburban family terrorised by malevolent spirits. Only he didn’t direct it, only he sort of did. Or something.
Night #25: Lake Mungo
A bit of a deliberate change of pace tonight, a little something that suits my mood (In which this dreaded cold was going away and now has come back bigger and badder).
This is a story about ghosts.
Night #24: Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Besides being one of those films with a colon in it, hence making the naming above look a bit funny, Behind The Mask is a pretty great parody of slasher movies that’s played completely straight. After all the slasherin’ we’ve been through I thought it would be good to see it all deconstructed.
Night #23: The Evil Dead
Even though I’m coming down with something horrendous I still bring you all the goods and after viewing that trailer for the actually pretty good looking remake, I thought I’d give the original another spin.
Night #22: Dawn Of The Dead
The zombie. If it’s possible that we reached saturation I’d say we reached it a long time ago, but they continue to endure anyway. Like the vampire we’re treated to story after story of the shuffling dead from such diverse fair as The Serpent And The Rainbow (Hi again Wes Craven) to Zombiez(I think it’s meant as like…a street thing).
Seen as the modern Godfather of zombies, George Romero released what’s considered his magnum opus in 1978 and is still seen as a high point in the genre.
But I still don’t like it that much. Continue reading
Night #21: A Nightmare On Elm Street
Being hungover today and slipping in and out of sleep was probably not the best way to watch this. But these are the sacrifices I make in the name of the blog.
Is This Thing On? 