My favorite horror movie may be hands down, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. It’s really not hard to figure out why that is when I go over this Kubrick masterpiece. Jack Nicholson portrays Jack Torrance, a struggling writer, who takes on a position to look after the Overlook Hotel where he …
Read More »My Favorite Horror Movie – ‘FRIDAY THE 13TH’ (1980)
My favorite horror movie is from 1980 and introduced us all to a person named Jason Voorhees. That’s right, I am talking about the cult classic Friday the 13th. Friday the 13th premiered on May 9th,1980 and it was produced by Sean S. Cunningham, who also produced Wes Craven’s The …
Read More »Meet Me at the Waterfront After the Social: Why ‘SLEEPAWAY CAMP’ (1983) Is My Favorite Horror Movie
Back in 1987 you could rent VHS tapes anywhere (and I do mean anywhere). My mom and I were at a local gas station that rented movies and as we were trying to decide what to rent for the night, we saw a movie called Sleepaway Camp and we thought …
Read More »Tinsel, Toys, and Terror: Unwrapping the Gift that is ‘BLACK CHRISTMAS’ (2006)
Black Christmas, also known as Black X-Mas, is the 2006 remake of the beloved 1974 Canadian proto-slasher of the same name. Apart from a few similarities, the two films don’t have much in common. While the original relied heavily on suspense and imagination, the remake relies heavily on shocking the …
Read More »The Dead Tell No Tales: All About A Forgotten Zombie Terror
The dead don’t mess around. In this article, we venture into one of the genre’s most strange and surprising terrors: Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things. I didn’t find this movie until the ripe age of 17. I was well seasoned in horror, I knew what I liked. Then I …
Read More »A Love Letter To ‘Little Shop of Horrors’
Asking a horror fan what their favorite horror movie is is like asking a food critic what their favorite dish is; it all depends on the mood. Sometimes I’m in the mood for a complex psychological thriller and will throw on Jacob’s Ladder. Other times, I just want to see …
Read More »My Favorite Horror Movie: It Began with a ‘SCREAM’
There’s the movie that introduced you to horror… and then there’s the one that made you fall head over heels in love with the genre. For me, that was Scream (1996). At the tender age of five, I thought my little eyes were deceiving me as I watched a man turn …
Read More »Horror Movies and the Escape of it All
Movies, no matter how groundbreaking or silly they may be, have always traded one thing to us in return for their immortality – the means of escape. Escape from reality. Escape from life. Escape from the world. Horror movies have come to be one of the most consistent suppliers of …
Read More »I’m Into Survival: My First Final Girl
When people ask me what my favorite horror movie of all time is, the answer may seem cliché. However, this movie changed my life. It changed my perspective. It made me curious. It emboldened me as a female. That film put its claws (knives, actually) into me and never let …
Read More »My Favorite Horror Film: ‘The VVitch’ (2015) is Deliciously Evil
I have seen many horror movies over the years but whenever I am asked which one is my favorite, the answer is always quick and easy: The VVitch (2015). Having always had a fascination for the occult, especially the old New England folktales involving witches, I absolutely HAD to see …
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