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Mike’s Review: The Last Exorcism (2010)
★★★out of ★★★★★
When a coach, teacher, parent, or peer says “…hey there, that was a really competent job.” Competent? Yeah. Competent. A really condescending term that points to the ultimate in back-handed compliments. It’s not bad, per se, but it ain’t great either. Enter The Last Exorcism. A really competent piece of filmmaking.
Movie Posters We Love: The Video Dead (1987)
Just save your pennies and you might get a new TV too. But beware, there might be something living inside […]
Movie Posters We Love: Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970)
Suffice it to say there’s a lot to unpack here. There’s monsters! There’s blood! There’s blood monsters! There’s bat demons! […]
Mike’s Review: Asylum of Satan (1972)
★★★out of ★★★★★ In 2013 Steven Speilberg and some other guy named George Lucas stood in front of a group […]
Mike’s Review: The New York Ripper (1982)
★★★out of ★★★★★ Oh Lucio Fulci is there anything you can’t do? Between the hacking, the slashing, the stabbing, the cutting, […]
The Scariest Things Podcast: Episode XXIII The Best Horror Remakes
CAN’T. BE. DONE. That film is sacrosanct! It’s untouchable. It’s pure perfection and should never be subject to the sleazy […]
Mike’s Review: The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015)
★★.5 out of ★★★★★ Hmmm…this one’s a real puzzler. Playing with time, space, roles, and well, the fundamental tenets of horror. […]
Movie Posters We Love: The Skull (1965)
Hot damn! This one’s a winner. Peter Cushing + Skulls + the Marquis De Sade = a perfect pile of […]
The Scariest Things Podcast: Episode XXII Defining the Golden Age of Horror Part 1: the 1920s
Get in that way back machine. No not that one. That way, way, way back machine. Because we’re going back in time before mankind knew of color or sound.
Movie Posters We Love: Mother’s Day (1980)
“I’m So proud of my boys they never forget their mama.” Kinda says it all…doesn’t it. Happy Mother’s Day from […]
Scariest Things Podcast Episode XXI: Horror Films We’re ASHAMED We Haven’t Seen
Shame. Guilt. Dishonor. Dereliction. Sin. Or, maybe we were just busy that weekend.
Mike’s Review: Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
★★ out of ★★★★★
Pazuzu? Seriously you can’t come up with a scarier demon name?
Movie Posters We Love: Demon Wind (1990)
Uh…not sure what’s going on here. Or, for that matter, what the exact translation of Tanz Der Damonen is, but…this […]
Scariest Things Podcast Episode XX: Scariest Horror Soundtracks
Can music make a film? Break a film? Raise the hairs on the back of your head? You bet your bottom dollar!
Movie Posters We Love: Frightmare (1983)
Wow. Just wow. Haven’t seen this flic, but the posters is a whole bag of cool. I try not to […]
Horror Movie News: Halloween “Hella Scary”
In a nice little bit of yet-to-be-witnessed self-promotion, THE Jamie Lee Curtis declares the new Halloween film to be “Hella […]
Movie Posters We Love: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Scary movie, scary film, and SUPER-scary soundtrack! Technically this is not a post about a poster, but more about the […]
Scariest Things Podcast Episode XIX: When Horror Goes Too Far…
In the ultimate subject question we try to get at the idea can, does, and will go too far. Or does it?
Scariest Things Podcast Episode XVIII: The Best in Sci-Fi Horror
Is is horror? Is it sci-fi? Is it horror-sci-fi? Does it have space aliens? Are those furry little space aliens scary?
Mike’s Review: Dr. Butcher, M.D./Zombie Holocaust/Island of the Last Zombies/Zombi 3/Queen of the Cannibals (1982)
★★ out of ★★★★★
Ok, I gotta get something off my chest. I saw the trailer for this beauty back in 1985 and was so horrified by its content I could have sworn that I’d seen the whole film — front to back. This was some seriously dense scar tissue built up over the years. But alas, I’d never seen this flic. That was, until a couple weeks ago.
Movie Posters We Love: Flying Witch Woman vs. the Vampire (1990)
I have no idea what’s going on with this bag of crazy…other than the fact that it’s…crazy! Check out tons […]
The Scariest Things Podcast Episode XVII: Shaky Cam & Found Footage
You love ’em. You hate ’em. You don’t know where to start. You worship at their altar. All these things are true. One of the most polemic (and satisfying) devices in the horror genre — shaky cam/found footage flics.
Movie Posters We Love: Happy Birthday to me (1981)
That’s OK…I’m not a huge fan of shish kebab.
The Scariest Things Podcast Episode XVI: When Good Animals Go Evil
Thumper, Ben, Lassie, Willard, Cujo…my pet gator? Why have you chosen to forsake me?
Mike’s Review: We are still here (2015)
★★ out of ★★★★★
Ok…I think it’s time for you guys to leave.
Mike’s review: The Night Evelyn Came out of the Grave (1971)
★★.5 out of ★★★★★
The Worms Are Waiting!
The Scariest Things Podcast Episode XV: The Best Darn Hillbilly Horror
Dear god…where do these people come from? More importantly, who makes this stuff up? Some of the grizzliest, nastiest, most […]
Mike’s Fav’ Horror Guilty Pleasures!
Boozy, trashy, low-budget, junk, ill-conceived, poor, without merit, repugnant, the worst of the worst….BUT OH SO SATISFYING! Going through decades […]
The Scariest Things Podcast Episode XIV: The best PG and PG-13 Horror Flicks
ids. Tweens. Teens. Neighbors. Co-workers. Scaredy cats. Squeamish about horror and don’t know where to start? Want to fully indoctrinate your kids in to the unforgiving world of horror? Need something to chat about around the workplace water-cooler — besides Stormy Daniels?