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31 Days of Horror: Film #26 Young Frankenstein

31 Days of Horror: Film #26 YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

Okay, so it’s a comedy, not a horror film. Still, you know, it’s Frankenstein. I know it's cheating but I figure it fits with the October theme well enough.

I’m not really a Mel Brooks fan. But I LOVE Young Frankenstein.

Young Frankenstein is about the grandson of the infamous Dr. Frankenstein who discovers his grandfather’s notebook (titled ‘How I Did It’) and decides to try his hand and reanimating the dead. Hilarity ensues.

The cast is brill...

31 Days of Horror: Film #25 Retribution

31 Days of Horror: Film #25 RETRIBUTION

Kiyoshi Kurosawa is one of my favorite directors working today (Kiyoshi is not related to Akira Kurosawa, probably my favorite director of all time). Kiyoshi Kurosawa is mainly thought of as a horror director, which is understandable but it doesn’t tell the whole story. He’s worked in many genres, and his drama Tokyo Sonata is considered by many to be his masterpiece. I think that honor belongs to his apocalyptic ghost story Pulse, personally (do n...

31 Days of Horror: Film #24 Circle

31 Days of Horror: Film #24 CIRCLE

Sometimes you don’t need to see a trailer, learn about a film’s cast, or hear any kind of buzz about a movie to decide whether you want to see it or not. Sometimes a single sentence describing the film is enough to convince you if the movie is for you.

Circle is about 50 people that have been abducted by aliens, put into a circle in a dark room, and forced to decide on the single person among them that deserves to live. Huh. Okay. Cool. I was interested....

31 Days of Horror: Film #23 A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

31 Days of Horror: Film #23 A NIGHTMATE ON ELM STREET (2010)

Yesterday I watched and reviewed a good horror remake. Today, not so lucky.

Not long after directing Pearl Harbor, Michael Bay started producing films on the side. Films like the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles seem like the typical Bay product, but TMNT is outnumbered by a number of horror films Bay produced. This is interesting because Bay never really showed an interest in horror for the films he directed. The majority of th...

31 Days of Horror: Film #22 The Crazies (2010)

31 Days of Horror: Day #22 THE CRAZIES

Remakes rarely manage to measure up to the originals, and that seems especially true when talking about horror film remakes. There are exceptions, of course. Horror master George A. Romero has seen a few of his films receive the remake treatment. Those remakes have actually been rather decent for the most part. The Night of the Living Dead remake has its fans. The Dawn of the Dead remake from Zack Snyder is stylish and cool. And, well, let’s not tal...

31 Days of Horror: Film #21 Crimson Peak

31 Days of Horror: Film #21 CRIMSON PEAK

In the time leading up to Crimson Peak’s release, director Guillermo del Toro stressed the fact that the film was a gothic romance, not a horror film. I had thought he was just being picky about genre classification. Turns out, yeah, he was right on. Crimson Peak has its fair share of scares and violent deaths but it is much more of a gothic romance than a horror film. It’s more along the lines of Jane Eyre and Rebecca than House on Haunted Hill o...

31 Days of Horror: Film #20 My Soul to Take

31 Days of Horror: Film #20 MY SOUL TO TAKE

Horror master Wes Craven passed away on August 30th at the age of 76 after a fight with cancer. It was a sad day for horror fans and film lovers everywhere.

For this October I knew that I wanted to watch a Craven film that I’d not seen before. So I made the highly questionable decision to make that film 2010’s My Soul to Take, the director’s second-to-last directorial effort (the final film being Scream 4).

My Soul to Take came and went so quietl...

31 Days of Horror: Film #19 The Shining

31 Days of Horror: Film #19 THE SHINING

I’ve seen Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining many times. It’s a great film. This was the first time watching the film since reading Stephen King’s much-loved book.

It’s interesting to me that Kubrick’s The Shining was not well liked when it first debuted in theatres. I don’t put much thought into the yearly bad film awards the Razzies – nobody should – but it’s worth noting that the Razzies nominated Stanley Kubrick for Worst Director and Shelley Duvall...

31 Days of Horror: Film #18 POD

31 Days of Horror: Film #18 POD

Pod is a little indie sci-fi horror film with a small cast of characters, set primarily in one cramped house, with a running time of less than 80 minutes. Not everything clicks but it is rather effective, eliciting scares and paranoia when it finally sets the hooks in.

The film is about a brother and sister who go to see their estranged brother Martin after receiving a strange phone call. Martin’s had mental problems since getting kicked out of the military...

31 Days of Horror: Film #17 Evil Dead 2

31 Days of Horror: Film #17 EVIL DEAD 2

What can I say about this film that already hasn’t been said? Nothing, probably. So this’ll be a short log entry.

Evil Dead 2 is one of the craziest, funniest, bloodiest, zaniest, most inventive and entertaining horror films of all time. An absolute classic. I love this movie.

Bruce Campbell chopping his hand off and later replacing it with a chainsaw remains one of the coolest hero moments in all of cinema. It’s insane and I love it.