The Boy really spooked me out. It was a great mix of logic and insanity.
Category: movie
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Horror Cinema: Funhouse Massacre
Movie review
Andy Palmer’s Funhouse MassacreFunhouse Massacre was completely irreverent and fun. A total cheesefest, it didn’t try to be anything else but that, which I liked.
Palmer, Andy. Funhouse Massacre, Petri Entertainment, 2015.
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Wrong Turn Splatter
Lynch, Joe. Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2007.
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After a Long Day
I’m settling in with some redrum.
Kubrick, Stanley. The Shining, Warner Bros., 1980.
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Horror Cinema: The Blob (1988)
Russell, Chuck. The Blob, TriStar Pictures, 1988.
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Rue Morgue Dark Carnival: George A. Romero
I’m going to get to see George A. Romero at the Rue Morgue Dark Carnival in July! Night of the Living Dead was one of the first horror movies that made me fall in love with the horror genre. The movie’s political commentary elevated the horror to surrealism, and I’ve yet to see that done as well again.
Romero, George A. Night of the Living Dead, The Walter Reade Organization / Continental Distributing, 1968.
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Horror Cinema: The Roost
Anyone else a Ti West fan? The Roost is the only film where I was scared of bats. A classic Ti West move, the film slowly builds tension until something not necessarily scary is unexpectedly terrifying. Love it.
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Thriller: Wait Until Dark
Movie review
Terence Young’s Wait Until DarkOn the Bubonic Illiterate‘s recommendation, I watched Hush, a slasher flick with a disabled victim who outwits her nemesis using her disability. From the moment it started, I found it reminiscent of the 1967 film Wait Until Dark, which follows the very same premise.
Unlike Wait Until Dark, however, Hush didn’t provide with a sympathetic victim, which is, I guess, part of the tradition of modern slasher films. In Wait Until Dark, the narrative builds a relationship of exploitation between the victim and her nemesis that is caught up in her marital relationship, making her feeling of isolation and vulnerability as a blind woman greater as the movie goes on. Even though she is in the middle of the city in her home, she is still pursued as a victim in a web of lies she had no idea she lived in. So scary. And her final act of using her disability to deceive her nemesis makes you want to scream and cheer at the same time.
They don’t make movies like they used to.
Young, Terence. Wait Until Dark, Warner Bros., 1967.
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