Marc-Ivan O’Gorman’s film The Black Magic (2002) serves up a curse from a vengeful Asian spirit upon three obnoxious, stereotypical, frat boy characters.  You can probably guess the plot already, but I’ll spill a few details anyway. As mentioned, there are three pretty boy fraternity types on a trip to Bangkok, Thailand. …

Mac Carter’s Haunt (2013) offers viewers a haunted house tale, very angry ghosts, and teenage romance. But is it memorable? For me, the character’s names didn’t even sink in. Maybe I’m just bad with names, but it could also be symptomatic of a movie that didn’t keep me absolutely, 100% …

Halloween has long been associated with horror and general spookiness. So it’s no wonder that many Halloween themes have made it into the horror movies that we still watch today. For each Halloween-related image category below, I will recommend a horror movie where such imagery appears. The image may not …

One of the most iconic horror villains, Hannibal Lecter, has undoubtedly left his mark on pop culture forever. He has also left his teeth marks on several victims, both in novels, film, and even a short-lived TV series. What is it about this brilliant, cultured cannibal that sticks with us, …

All Hallows’ Eve reminds us to think twice before digging through our Halloween bags, and that you can’t keep a bad clown down, even if you try. Released in 2013, Damien Leone’s All Hallows’ Eve has much of what one expects from modern horror. There are abundant attempts to shock, but not many …

Theoretically speaking, there are limitless ways to tell a horror story. Still, in A Haunting In Salem, director Shane Van Dyke utilizes many of the ways horror fans are already familiar with. He probably thought most other ways would be rejected, which is understandable. Though the movie ostensibly involves a sad …

At my other, lesser known blog, I’ve discussed my favorite things about Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, such as how it’s a love story yet brutal (they’ll peck your eyes out, kid!). It’s also amazing how the movie plays so well with such a minimalist soundtrack. Also, the birds can represent countless …

Friday the 13th for the NES Video Game System is not the easiest game to play, let alone win. Yet I seem to have reached the point where I win it every time I play. How is this possible? Am I lying about that? No, I am not. I don’t want …

Most people have had crushes, but sometimes they can reach the point of obsession. This is the underlying theme to 2015’s horror flick, Dark Summer, though the story offers some technological, supernatural twists. What happens when the obsession has no limits? Currently on Netflix, the movie Dark Summer offers a standard …

Friday the 13th (1980): More Than Meets The Eye Sometimes a movie can just be a movie without needing a convoluted story line, complex character motivations and obvious themes about the human condition. Here we have a movie that is undeniably a commercial piece, and a horror film that seems …