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My Bloody Valentine: Happy Valentine’s Horror
Happy Valentine’s Season! I’m taking a break from the chronological review of slashers to focus on more seasonal fare, starting with My Bloody Valentine. For this review I’m watching the unrated, almost-director’s-cut of My Bloody Valentine from Scream Factory. To get this out of the way, this is not an unbiased review, although I will try my best. My…
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Presence: Good Movie Bad Horror
How you feel about Presence may largely depend on how many trailers or ads you’ve seen for the movie. They are effective haunted house trailers that claim that Presence is one of the “scariest movies of the year”, and that it “leaves your heart on the floor”. Wildly out of context audio plays over clips…
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And Then There Were None: Slasher Adjacent
Just to be clear, And Then There Were None is not a slasher movie, at least not in this interpretation of the story. It is a well-known murder mystery that uses elements that later become tropes in slashers and other horror movies. The aspects of the story that are most interesting to me in the…
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Wolf Man: Where wolf?
Writer and director of Wolf Man, Leigh Whannell, has proven himself to be one of the most reliable creators in horror. Saw and Insidious are clever and scary. He also wrote Dead Silence, which is an underrated gem. After 2020’s The Invisible Man, I understand why anyone would trust him to update a classic Universal…
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Incantation: Horror Found at Home
Today, we are looking at Incantation, Taiwan’s highest grossing horror movie. I’ve always had an interest in international horror. I touched on my whole “movie snob” era here, but at least I got to watch a lot of good movies out of those insufferable years. Japanese films were a gateway into a broader world of…
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Exhume: Real Life Inspiration Gone Wrong
Amazon recommended 2017’s Exhume to me based on other movies I’ve watched, which now has me seriously reconsidering my viewing habits. Advertised as based on a true story, Exhume uses the atrocities committed at a Florida school for boys as the backdrop for its haunted tale. Sadly, Exhume fails to handle this delicate subject, or…
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Thirteen Women: The First Slasher
Released in 1932, Thirteen Women will be the oldest film I cover on here, at least for a while. Based on a best-selling novel written by Tiffany Thayer, this pre-Hayes Code film is a violent tale of revenge, racism, and female fury. I’ve made no secret over my love of all kinds of slashers. It’s…
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Last Straw: Home Invasion Horror Gets a Twist
2025 is off to a rough start with the appropriately titled Last Straw. This was one of the most frustrating viewing experiences I’ve had in a while. I love when a movie tries something new or has an ambitious premise, even if it doesn’t quite pull it off. But when an otherwise solid film hamstrings…
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Best of 2024: Horror and Anime
What better way to start the year, than with a look back at the best of 2024. Since I watch a lot both new and retro, I’m opening these categories up to anything I saw for the first time in 2024. It doesn’t matter if was released this year as long as it was new…