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Halloween Holocaust: Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984)
More by accident than by design, today's entry completes a three day consecutive hat-trick of horror movies made in the 80's and set in the Big Apple. It's admittedly stating the obvious to say that...
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Halloween Holocaust/SHOCKtober: Braindead/Dead Alive (Peter Jackson, 1992)
Quite possibly Peter Jackson's greatest film, and almost certainly the most spectacular and delightfully outrageous splat-stick rom-zom-com ever made (a whole 12 years before Shaun of the Dead, whose...
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Halloween Holocaust/SHOCKtober: Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981)
Like Lynch's Eraserhead and Kubrick's The Shining, Andrzej Zulawski's Possession is an extraordinary art-horror head-fuck of a film, that dives deep into the abyss, so to speak, fearlessly exploring...
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Halloween Holocaust: In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter,1994)
For today's post we're gonna hang out some more with our buddy Sam Neill, for some ontologically destabalising, meta-fictional, H.P Lovecraft inspired skull-fuckery, courtesy of Master of Horror John...
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Halloween Holocaust: Ghosts of Mars (John Carpenter, 2001)
Continuing the process of six degrees of separation utilised yesterday, we're gonna look at another relatively unsung (and, in this case, somewhat misunderstood) film from the ever reliable John...
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Halloween Holocaust: Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi, 1992)
Today's movie, like Ghosts of Mars, is another action-comedy-horror hybrid. Playing like a cracked collaboration between The Three Stooges and Ray Harryhausen, and shot with (at times) almost Wellsian...
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Halloween Holocaust: The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)
As I'm sure some of you are no doubt thinking, its fair to say that The Terminator isn't exactly a horror movie in the classical sense, as it's somewhat short on much of the traditional imagery...
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Halloween Holocaust: Hardware (Richard Stanley, 1990)
Somewhat continuing yesterday's adventures involving rampaging, robotic killing machines and steely, last-woman-standing protagonists, today's film certainly bears more than a passing resemblance to...
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Halloween Holocaust: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975)
Maybe the most financially successful midnight movie of all time, and certainly the longest running, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is also perhaps the quintessential cult film. One merely has to look...
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Halloween Holocaust: The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934)
This first screen pairing of Karloff and Lugosi is one of the most liberal (i.e. extremely loose) interpretations of a Poe story ever committed to celluloid; a baroque and, for the time, surprisingly...
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Halloween Holocaust: The Black Cat (Lucio Fulci, 1981)
Today's entry, like yesterday's, is another film inspired by Poe's classic tale. It's also the second appearance this October from Lucio Fulci; and like Manhattan Baby, it's an underrated little gem...
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Halloween Holocaust: Two Evil Eyes (Dario Argento and George A. Romero, 1990)
The third and final appearance this Halloween season from Poe's fearsome feline, and the first for both Argento and Romero, Two Evil Eyes, is (as is no doubt obvious) a two part anthology film,...
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Halloween Holocaust: House on Haunted Hill (William Castle, 1959)
Had never seen this classic Vincent Price vehicle until last night, and I found it to be the sort of good, old fashioned creepy fun that the Merchant of Menace is famous for. As others have pointed...
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Halloween Holocaust: Castle Freak (Stuart Gordon, 1995)
Today's movie is another that was previously unseen by yours truly until very recently. I also had no idea that it's a H.P. Lovecraft adaptation, until I noticed his name in the credits under "Special...
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Halloween Holocaust - Late Night Double Feature: Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton,...
Last night's Halloween themed double bill was initially unplanned, but turned out to be a match made in movie heaven. I'd not seen Burton's enjoyably campy (yet perhaps somewhat style-over-substance)...
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Halloween Holocaust: Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi, 1987)
Like Peter Jackson's Braindead (aka Dead Alive, 1992) and the relatively unknown - not to mention completely, but wonderfully bonkers - Japanese cult gem Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977), Evil Dead II...
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Halloween Holocaust: Black Sabbath (Mario Bava, 1963)
If I had to pick a movie to introduce the uninitiated to the genius of Mario Bava, then it'd probably be this triple threat of terror. This is for several reasons. Firstly, it gives you a sampling of a...
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Halloween Holocaust: Black Sunday (Mario Bava, 1960)
Originally released in Italy as The Mask of Satan, but probably better known as Black Sunday, Mario Bava's first feature is arguably one of the finest directorial debuts that cinema has to offer,...
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Halloween Holocaust: Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)
Celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, Francis Ford Coppola's lavish, big budget adaptation of Stoker's classic novel is a rare and beautiful beast; a full blooded horror picture with...
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Halloween Holocaust: The Addams Family (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1991)
Like Coppola's Dracula, which we looked at yesterday, this big screen outing for Charles Addams' famous family is another early 90's big budget genre film that is worth seeing for both its grand gothic...
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