★★★.5 out of ★★★★★ SOMETHING. DOES. NOT. FEEL. RIGHT. We’ve all been there, right? A friend invites you to this super...
50,000 years of death stalks the subways!!! Wow. Kung Fu! Blaxspoitation! Monsters! Subways! Gritty NYC! Exclamation Points!!! This deceivingly simple...
★★★ out of ★★★★★
You know what’s cool about 1980s horror films?
Good artists create. Great artist steal. No truer words could ever be spoken regarding the horror genre.
Has there ever been a good Bigfoot movie? Well…that’s debatable. But this one looks like it could really be contender....
★★★ out of ★★★★★
Sometimes, just sometimes, a quiet stay in a bucolic looney bin really helps one’s psyche.
Just save your pennies and you might get a new TV too. But beware, there might be something living inside...
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!...
★★★out of ★★★★★ Oh Lucio Fulci is there anything you can’t do? Between the hacking, the slashing, the stabbing, the cutting,...
★★.5 out of ★★★★★ Hmmm…this one’s a real puzzler. Playing with time, space, roles, and well, the fundamental tenets of horror. ...
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.
Shame. Guilt. Dishonor. Dereliction. Sin. Or, maybe we were just busy that weekend.
Uh…not sure what’s going on here. Or, for that matter, what the exact translation of Tanz Der Damonen is, but…this...
Scary movie, scary film, and SUPER-scary soundtrack! Technically this is not a post about a poster, but more about the...
Get ready for some HOT TAKES. This is likely to make some of you guys mad, but you know what? These films are not as good as their reputations suggest.
You’d think dating Justin Bieber would be the scariest thing that there ever once was. Turns out, dating young Biebs […]
Ain’t no horror festival like to the Portland Horror Festival — cuz the Portland Horror Festival don’t stop! This one...
★★★ out of ★★★★★
The Scariest Things got to check out the World Premiere of this Northwest myth put to film at the Portland Horror Film Festival!
It’s WORLD CUP time. That means lots, and lots, and lots of football — and the UNDEAD! Haven’t seen this...
Holy crap! It’s here, it’s here, it’s here!!! Is it good? Will you see it? Will you take a date?...
★★★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.
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
A Brooding and beautiful, if fairly straightforward modern Irish horror folktale.
★★★out of ★★★★★ Directed by William Girdler. In 2013 Steven Speilberg and some other guy named George Lucas stood in...
CAN’T. BE. DONE. That film is sacrosanct! It’s untouchable. It’s pure perfection and should never be subject to the sleazy...
Hot damn! This one’s a winner. Peter Cushing + Skulls + the Marquis De Sade = a perfect pile of...
“I’m So proud of my boys they never forget their mama.” Kinda says it all…doesn’t it. Happy Mother’s Day from...
★★.5 out of ★★★★★
Pazuzu? Seriously you can't come up with a scarier demon name?
In a nice little bit of yet-to-be-witnessed self-promotion, THE Jamie Lee Curtis declares the new Halloween film to be “Hella...
Amy Nicholson's Canon Podcast was on hand to record a debate as to whether the Exorcist of the Exorcist III deserved to be in the canon of great films. Eric got to weigh in with his opinion... listen in! Plus a fun encounter with a genre film legend!