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31 Days of Horror 2016: Day 10 & 11 JERUZALEM and DARK WAS THE NIGHT

Streaming video is great! However, it’ll never be my favorite way to watch a movie because you usually have to rely on a catalog you do not control, the picture quality can sometimes suffer depending on the time you watch it, and internet is unpredictable with a tendency to go out when you’re in the middle of something. On Monday, I was watching Film 11 of my 31 Days of Horror on Netflix when the internet went kerplunk. So, I had to finish it Tuesday night, and now we get a twofer!

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31 Days of Horror 2016: Day #9 THE LAST WINTER

“. . . nature is indifferent to us.”

The Last Winter is a horror movie about global warming… and with that, I believe at least half the audience has checked out. And that’s too bad. To me, scientific fact should not be something that you must decide to agree/disagree with based on your political affiliation. Global warming is happening – it is not the creation of the Chinese in an attempt to make money. You can disagree about what awaits the future of the planet and what level of crisis we’ve...

31 Days of Horror 2016: Day #8 CHRISTINE

“You better watch what you say about my car.”

Yes, Christine is a movie about an evil car. And yes, I realize that sounds darn silly. But it’s a surprisingly dark and angry film. The car itself – which I think of as a succubus in automobile form – isn’t scary, really. It’s what the car does to its owner that’s rather disturbing. At the start of the picture, Arnie (Keith Gordon) is a submissive dork with only one friend in the world. Then he falls in love with the beat-up car Christine, fixes...

31 Days of Horror: Day #7 THE FLY

“I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over... and the insect is awake.”

I’d forgotten just how gross this movie is. And how sad. David Cronenberg’s The Fly is unlike many other horror films in that it’s not about scares, or a relentless pace, or creepy sights/sounds that we may not understand. The Fly doesn’t jump out of corners, it’s a fairly slow burn, and it keeps no secrets from its audience. The film is the tale of a scientist who creates a teleporter,...

31 Days of Horror 2016: Day #6 THE INVITATION

31 Days of Horror 2016: Day #6 THE INVITATION

“There’s nothing to be afraid of.”

There was once a group of friends. They had love and then they had tragedy. The married couple that united them all ended their union with a divorce and the friends fell out of contact with one another. Now, the ex-wife of that couple has returned from nearly two years of being off the grid, and she’s invited all her friends to a dinner party in the house her husband and her used to share. The ex-husband, Logan Ma...

31 Days of Horror 2016: Day #5 HOUSEBOUND

"You cannot punch ectoplasm!"

I love discovering a new favorite film on Netflix. In fact, I think that’s what the service is made for. 31 Days of Horror brings me to Housebound, a New Zealand horror comedy I’ve never heard of before, starring no one I recognize… And I had an absolute blast.

Kylie is a young woman who’s constantly screwing up and landing on the wrong side of the law. After various rehabilitation facilities fail her, the judge sentences Kylie to 8 months house arrest at her fami...

31 Days of Horror 2016: Day #4 STONEHEARST ASYLUM

"Believe nothing that you hear… and only one-half of what you see."

I think Brad Anderson is one of the most underrated directors working today. Session 9 is a modern horror masterpiece. The Machinist, though best remembered for the weight Christian Bale lost for his role, is a creepy, clever thriller. Transsiberian is a pretty excellent thriller with great acting and definitely deserves a much larger audience. Even Anderson at his most mainstream with the Halle Berry 911 thriller The Call wa...

31 Days of Horror 2016: Day #3 ZOMBIE FIGHT CLUB

31 Days of Horror 2016: Day #3 ZOMBIE FIGHT CLUB

“Who needs birthday party when the world is ending?”

Well, that sucked.

Zombie Fight Club tries to mix The Raid with The Walking Dead. It’s a combo that should work, but the movie fails quite spectacularly. This is a poorly plotted, cheap, tone deaf movie that’s dead on arrival. Just amateurish the whole way through.

A cop kill squad led by corrupt Michael Wong raids an apartment building looking to steal drug money. One of Wong’s men, Andy On, do...

31 Days of Horror 2016: Day #2 THE STUFF

("The Stuff" on Blu-ray from Arrow Video) “Tasty!”

So, it’s only the second night of my Halloween horror watchathon and I’ve already screwed up. I’d planned to watch Joy Ride for the first time, but apparently it’s expired from the service I’d planned to stream it from. Very frustrating! It sucks that things have already gone wrong on night 2 but I had a Plan B.

The Stuff.

Larry Cohen’s 1985 horror movie The Stuff is that weird film that reminds you of so many other movies and yet still feels li...

31 Days of Horror 2016: Night 1 EXISTS

We begin this October’s horror season with Bigfoot. Because, why not? BIGFOOT IS REAL, YA’LL. I mean maybe. I guess? Well, it could be… maybe.

There have always been lame, TV-movie quality Bigfoot movies. And we must never forget Boggy Creek 2: The Legend Continues, because wow. But as far as quality Sasquatch cinema, we don’t really have much to speak of.

In 2014, two interesting filmmakers tried their own approach to the Bigfoot myth, and curiously both decided to go the found footage route....