What’s my all time favorite horror movie? Without a doubt, the answer is John Carpenter’s Halloween. I was raised by a major Halloween and horror enthusiast, leading to curiosity in the movies my mother watched. In my household, I remember Halloween being this unspoken anthem and symbol to the actual holiday. …
Read More »Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’ House (1977) Monster House on Acid-Retro Review
Do you enjoy the strange and usual? The wacky and weird? The unnerving and disturbing? Than I have the film for you: 1977’s Japanese horror comedy House (also know as Hausu), which plays out like Monster House on acid, a film that is strange, weird, beautiful and more disturbing than …
Read More »Retro Review – THE SENTINEL (1977)
A friend once told me that they consider The Sentinel to be the scariest movie they’ve ever seen. Of course I have to check it out to see how wimpy my friends are and to, hopefully, make myself feel better about my answer to “What’s the scariest movie you’ve ever …
Read More »Retro Review: Death Bed, The Bed That Eats
Oh, to be a character in a horror movie. It’s a perilous place, with danger around every corner. Basically anything can kill you, from frogs to robots to the damn wind. But sometimes, you’ll find a horror director that says, “Fuck all that, I want to make something different. One …
Read More »Retro Review – George A. Romero’s MARTIN (1977)
Back before vampire’s started sparkling like semen-glazed doughnuts and sucking a certain portion of the male anatomy, George A. Romero produced a vampire film unlike any other. Gone were the fangs, the repellent effects of garlic and crosses, the aristocratic charm. Here, we have a vampire for the modern age. …
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