Tag Archives: The Thing

It was somewhere between the needlessly long take of a man mourning at his father’s grave and an unrelated phone call ranking the most missed genitals between two-thirds of a three-partner relationship that I knew I was in trouble with Shed. The screener description and the IMDb synopsis are both …

If you know me, you know that I go all out for Women in Horror Month and this year I’ve decided to do the same for Pride Month, which is equally as important to me. Representation Matters. I know so many people who belong to the LGBTQ+ community who are …

In 1986, Jeff Goldblum graced our eyeballs with more than his hairy chest in The Fly, and let’s face it, the more Goldblum we can get the better all our lives will be. David Cronenberg (Rabid 1977) gave us this cult hit motion picture. Just three years later in 1989, …

Screenwriter Kevin Williamson burst onto the scene in the mid 1990’s with a speculative screenplay he called Scary Movie. The Weinstein Company and Director Wes Craven produced the script and re-titled it Scream just before release. The rest, as they say, is history. Scream changed horror forever and made its screenwriter …

We are saddened to once again pay our respects to the loss of another great member of our beloved community. Donald Moffat, known for his roll as M.T. Garry, the commander of outpost 31 in the iconic John Carpenter film The Thing has passed away at the age of 87. Moffat …

What do you get when you mix The Thing with Nazis, British troops and biological warfare? You get the WWI body horror gorefest, Trench 11. I was lucky enough to speak with Leo Scherman, the writer/director of the film. We chatted about his influences, making a period piece, and what it was …

One of the hottest debates amongst fans of cinema these days are whether or not remakes are a good thing. Sometimes, they are a good thing, and other times, they are completely unnecessary. A lot of movie fans feel that remakes are lazy money grabs or cut-and-paste jobs, while others …

Chicago death metal outfit Broken Hope have been around since the early nineties. Before the internet surfaced, the only way to hear about different underground metal bands was by print. I actually heard about Broken Hope in the pages of Metal Maniacs Magazine and the writers had barely anything good …

We’ve seen it before. Horror franchises run out of ideas, and what happens? Our beloved psychos and monsters get sent into space. It happened with Hellraiser. Part 4, Bloodlines, had Pinhead in space. The fourth Leprechaun film also shot for the Moon. The Prince of Darkness went out of this world in Dracula …

It’s time for us to discuss week 4 of my 365 horror movie challenge! To catch up on last week’s films, click here. I was very particular about which films I wanted to watch this week. I was dog-sitting for a friend, so I had to spend a couple of …