The Shining (1980)

The Shining (1980) – What makes a movie scary? The most horrifying thing most parents could imagine would be to lose their child, but if you have a movie about parents losing a child it would be much more likely to be categorized as a “drama.” I often refer to the documentary Jesus Camp as “the … Continue reading

Originals Vs. Remakes: Slasher Edition

This article was originally published on 12ftdwende.com 2 April 2010. So I had a vague awareness of the Nightmare on Elm Street series as a small child. I would walk with great trepidation through the horror isle of the video store knowing that here were things not for young’ns like myself. I knew that there … Continue reading

Friday the 13th series

I love intelligent horror movies and wish there were more of them. But you know what? I love the dumb ones too. Maybe more. I have no intellectual defense of it, I just like it. I don’t like them “ironically.” I don’t even know what that means really. I am simply entertained. And for big … Continue reading

Inferno (1980)

Inferno (1980) – Okay, so this was the last movie of my Halloween Horror Movie Marathon and I was damn near falling asleep (which is, incidentally, why it was the last movie when I had been planning to watch another afterward). Perhaps this means I can’t really write a great review because I was barely … Continue reading

Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)

Where the Buffalo Roam (1980) – Do not go into this movie expecting something along the lines of Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. While both films are based on source material by legendary gonzo journalist Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, they have very different approaches. Where the Buffalo Roam features Bill Murray as … Continue reading

City of the Living Dead (1980)

City of the Living Dead (1980) — If you are the type who pukes your guts out seeing gore in movies you might want to steer clear of this one in which someone literally does puke their guts out. But what else would anyone expect from Lucio Fulci, the Italian horror maestro who made Zombi … Continue reading