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31 Days of Horror Day 21: Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Every year I watch George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968) because I entered the horror genre by deep diving into zombie flicks about the time I graduated from high school. Night of the Living Dead was the first of those films. I’m watching this film early because I’ve seen it so many […]

31 Days of Horror Day 20: Suitable Flesh (2023)

Suitable Flesh (2023) is probably my favorite Heather Graham film. Her performance as Dr. Elizabeth Derby in this film tops everything else she’s done. In this adaptation of the 1933 short story “The Thing on the Doorstep” by H.P. Lovecraft, a psychiatrist becomes obsessed with one of her young patients, who she later discovers is […]

31 Days of Horror Day 19: Outside (2024)

Zombie films are my favorite films in the horror genre. If done correctly, the films aren’t ever about the actual undead, they’re about the issues brough to the surface because of the undead. Look at the race issues in Night of the Living Dead (1968), the obsession with material possessions in Dawn of the Dead […]

31 Days of Horror Day 18: Eat Brains Love (2019)

Sometimes you need a comedic break between scary moments to reset the audience’s tension levels. Doing this will make it so that it’s easier to scare them next. For me, I just needed a laugh, so I scrolled through my Shudder menu until I found a comedy that had zombies and an interesting title. It […]

31 Days of Horror Day 17: Noroi: The Curse (2005)

As I make my way through watching a horror movie every night for the month of October, I can’t help but love and hate the Found Footage subgenre. Tonight, I watched the Japanese film Noroi: The Curse (2005). The film takes the form of a documentary by a prominent paranormal journalist named Kobayashi, who went […]

31 Days of Horror Day 16: The People Under the Stairs (1991)

One of the goals of this month was to watch classic horror films. Not necessarily the films from the silent era or the 40s, but the films that were created in the 70s, 80s, and early 90s. Growing up, I wasn’t able to watch horror movies. I remember getting grounded because my oldest sister caught […]

31 Days of Horror Day 15: Things Heard & Seen (2021)

Not all horror movies have to include gratuitous amounts of blood, gore, and violence. Some of them thrive on subtle themes of horror. Take the film Things Heard & Seen (2021) for example. The film is based on the novel All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage. The screenplay is by Shari Springer Berman […]

31 Days of Horror Day 14: Cobweb (2023)

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night thinking that you heard something? It’s dark and quiet. The only noises are the house settling and maybe the ticking of a clock nearby. And then you hear it. It’s the noise that initially woke you from your slumber. It might be rats inside […]

31 Days of Horror Day 13: Immaculate (2024)

Back in 2023 when I saw that Sydney Sweeney was going to star in a horror film where she played an American nun that travels to Italy to serve at a remote convent but soon discovers that the convent has a less than Godly purpose, I was pretty excited. Sweeney has been a favorite of […]

31 Days of Horror Day 12: Malignant (2021)

Malignant (2021) is one of those films that I really want to love. It’s got a lot of great elements to it. Body horror, a solid mystery, large amounts of blood and gore, a really interesting reveal, and some solid acting. However, I think that it was shot and filmed in entirely the wrong way. […]