Directed By: James Roday
Halloween. A Mexican restaurant is closing up for the night. A man in a clown costume has broken in and sealed the exits. He has two friends inside as well, and once they’ve rounded the remaining staff up, they announce that before the night is over, they’re going to eat them.
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.
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.
See how excited I am? It’s October, and that means that it’s 31 Nights of Frights. 31 Nights of terror, mayhem, nudity, blood, violence, scares, ghosts, ghouls (I just like to say that word) and pumpkins.
So starting tonight join me as I pick 31 films (as well as some other odds and ends) and count down to the greatest commercialised made-up-holiday of the year.
I love a good anthology. Sadly it finds itself under represented in the genre because it’s hard to get right. There was a slew of them in the 60’s and 70’s, mainly from the British studio Amicus Productions. They released films such as Tales From The Crypt, or The House That Dripped Blood (Sadly this never actually occurs) and Asylum, the latter two written by Robert Bloch (Psycho), based on his own stories. They’re all worth checking out if you like little films with a sting in their tale, or just if you want to see Joan Collins get strangled by a homicidal Santa Clause.
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