[Review] "All the Creatures Were Stirring" is an unexpected gift of unique, quirky horror12/15/2018 When it comes horror anthologies, Halloween is often the holiday that gets all of the glory. It’s often around then that you see the mass viewing of films like Creepshow, Tales from the Darkside, and of course, Trick ‘R Treat. Yet when it comes to Christmas, another popular horror holiday, we see much fewer examples of this. All the Creatures Were Stirring looks to change that, with a film that somehow finds a way to perfectly fit the cheery tone of the season…
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[Review] "Leprechaun Returns" goes back to the gold that made the series work the first time12/11/2018 [Review] "Video Palace" proves great sound design is still scarier than anything we see in film12/10/2018 Back in 1938, filmmaker Orson Welles (Citizen Kane) introduced his adaptation of H.G. Wells War of the Worlds as the 17th episode of the CBS radio program, “The Mercury Theater”. Revolving around the concept of aliens arriving on earth and taking over the planet, the broadcast was presented as a series of news broadcasts, and was so shockingly real, that some listeners actually went mad in a panic. People died. That’s the power of radio/audio. A power which Shudder’s Video Palace uses to perfection… A couple months ago, Hulu and Blumhouse premiered their joint effort, Into the Dark, a horror anthology series which releases one feature-length episode every month, revolving around some sort of holiday related to that month, beginning with The Body in October. While both The Body and Flesh and Blood were decent horror fare to one degree or another, Into the Dark may have its first genuinely classic episode in Pooka… Every Thursday, I dig through obscure or forgotten streaming horror films, searching for ones I haven’t seen in hopes of finding a gem so that you don’t have to do all of the digging yourself. This week, I dust off Christmas Evil (1980) and let you know whether the film is a gem, or a lump of coal... I’m a child of the 90s. That also means I grew up during the 90s slasher film era. After the slasher craze of the 80s, there weren’t that many ideas that felt fresh in the sub-genre. Every holiday had a horror film named after it. Numerous madmen had escaped mental institutions. And horror itself wasn’t that popular at the box office. The slasher film was becoming a thing of the past. Yesterday’s trash. And then Scream came along, reigniting our love for the simplistic sub-genre… |
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