“If you weren’t screaming, and we weren’t screaming – then someone is trying to mind fuck us here.”
Directed By: Tom DeSimone
It must’ve been hard being Linda Blair. You star in one of the most memorable horror movies of all time and then you make movies like Chained Heat (A ‘women in prison’ movie and all that entails), and somewhere along the way you star in Hell Night.
“Hey, come out of there you jerk you!”
Directed By: James Bryan
Well, that was quite a ride.
It’s understandable that after the success of Friday The 13th in 1980 that there would be a glut of movies in its wake. Most of them were bad. Some were good (As I’ve noted many a time, Friday The 13th Part II is better than its predecessor) and some of them were Don’t Go Into The Woods.
“God told me to.”
Directed By: Larry Cohen
In the annals of cult America cinema I’m not sure that Larry Cohen gets his due. Usually mentioned as that guy made movie about ice-cream that kills you (The Stuff, which is fantastic), he had a great run of movies such as Q: The Winged Serpent, Hell Up In Harlem and It’s Alive.
If nothing else, he was a filmmaker who used great hooks and went from there (Indeed, the later Colin Farrell movie Phone Booth dusted off an old Cohen script). This one is no different: Random New Yorkers are committing spree killings and before they die they’re claiming “God told me to.”
“Welcome to Potter’s Bluff.”
Directed By: Gary Sherman
Oh my God, we’re back again…
Alright, well now we have that unpleasantness out of the way, why don’t we deal with tonight’s movie:
For some reason I thought there was a post talking about what happened with last year’s ‘31 Nights of Frights‘ as well as one or two things I had posted since then. Either I’m losing it or it was a very banal dream I was having.
Neverthless, we’re back on this year and barring any problems like last year we’ll make it all the way through. Life and such things have a habit of getting in the way. But it’s only 31 days, so together I’m sure we can make it.
Directed By: Denison Clift
Ok so I made a mistake. I’ve always loved the story of the Mary Celeste and due to pressing time I needed something that was reasonably short. On top of that the poster art was nicely atmospheric so why not give this one a go?
Directed By: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
When is a remake not a remake? It’s not a trick question really, and while this movie falls ostensibly into that category, it also acknowledges that there was a movie released back in 1976. In fact, every year it’s screened for the enjoyment of the town of Texarkana, where the original killings took place. But is being meta enough to separate this from any other run of the mill slasher?
Directed By: Jack Clayton
Well, that’s more like it. We have a movie tonight that was as good as yesterday’s was bad. That is to say a stone cold classic. Lush and sumptuous, they don’t make movies like this anymore, though they keep trying.
Directed By: Who cares really?
So this is what happens when you let booze get the better of you and pick a movie. Yet, through some weird coincidence, it shares some similarities with yesterday’s offering.
Directed By: Irving Pichel/Ernest B Schoedsack
This isn’t quite the oldest movie I’ve viewed for this series (That honour belongs to Dracula) but it’s close. I do know that it is the worst looking movie I’ve stumbled across though, more on that later, so does a movie from 1932 still have the capacity to shock? Read on and I shall tell thee.
Is This Thing On? 