(Absurdly Late) Halloween Movies: [REC]

I KNOW.   I know.   I’m so late.   I’m the White freakin’ Rabbit.
Angela Vidal is a Spanish reporter.   She and her cameraman Pablo work for a show called While You Sleep, which in addition to being the motto of the United Federation of Stalkers is a show that highlights the lives and times of people with [...]

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(Way Post) Halloween Blogathon: The Shining

You let that crazy shine on through, Nicholson!

Aspiring writer Jack Torrance has been paying the bills as a teacher, but he longs for more time to write.   After kicking booze due to a nasty incident where he injured his child, Torrance accepts a position as the winter caretaker for The Overlook Hotel.   He packs up [...]

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(Post) Halloween Blogathon – House of 1000 Corpses

Take some lost kids look for a Doctor Satan, a completely insane hillbilly family, sprinkle in some inspirations from other horror movies and bake at 350 degrees for a few hours.

I don’t think Rob Zombie knows how to make a movie by Rob Zombie.   Sure, House of 1000 Corpses is gory and violent, but that’s [...]

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Halloween Blogathon: The Host and The Descent

Ah, it’s a fish…monster….thing!

 
Here’s my issue with The Host: what I saw, I really liked and what I heard, I did not.    The Host is pretty much about a gigantic fish-monster … thing spawned by scientists dumping toxic chemicals into a river that makes with the roaring and the rampaging one fine day.   The survivors [...]

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Halloween Blogathon: The Fly

It’s that classic tale of boy meets girl, unless you count the girl being a crack science reporter and the boy being a semi-mad genius obsessed with teleportation.
Seth Brundle is a researcher working on how to make teleportation work.   Veronica Quaife scents a story in Seth Brundle; she follows him back to his lab and [...]

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Reader’s Choice – Guilty Pleasures: Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Uh… it’s like candy coated vampire lore?

Visually speaking, Dracula is a feast.   It’s beautifully lit and bathed in an aura of Victorian sensibilities drenched in crimson and black.    It has some stunning old-school sequences like in the beginning, where a beautiful opening montage explains how Dracula came to be a vampire.   The costumes are gorgeous; [...]

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Halloween Free For All: The Voting

You guys nominated more than I can watch in 24 hours!
So now it’s time to vote on nine selections.   You get nine votes for the nine movies I’m going to watch in 24 hours starting on midnight at the 30th and ending on midnight on Halloween.  Here’s the movies you guys nominated along with a [...]

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QT Week: From Dusk ‘Till Dawn

Penned by Tarantino, shot and edited by Rodriguez.   (Rodriguez does so much stuff on his own films that I’m shocked he’s not responsible for craft services in addition to the ninety million things he does.)

Seth and Richie Gekko have some serious problems.   Richie busted Seth out of prison and on their way to [...]

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#1551: The Screwfly Solution (Masters of Horror)

SPOILER WARNING.

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#1546: Drag Me To Hell

Mr. Raimi, I missed you.

I saw the Evil Dead series somewhere around the age of 17 or so and ever since then I’ve been in cinematic love with Sam Raimi.   In the past few years, however, this adoration had dulled over the plethora of Spiderman movies that had come or are to come; I [...]

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