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Tag Archives: supernatural
Time to return to House on Haunted Hill – twice
For me, 1959’s House on Haunted Hill is the masterpiece of William Castle/Vincent Price collaborations. So before revisiting this 1999 remake twenty years later, I was assuming I was unfairly hard on it the first time around. I was…until the … Continue reading
Is the Boogeyman trilogy a thrillogy?
As I revisited the 2005 Boogeyman and got the same vibe the chilling opening of Darkness Falls gave me—boy terrified of monster coming into his room—I couldn’t fathom why I remembered nothing about this film. Then I watched the rest … Continue reading
Creepy ladies, killer guys
So I checked out four up-and-coming films—a ghost, a boogeyman, a psycho, and witches—but should you be waiting in anticipation? Let’s take a look. THE CABIN (2018) I’ll never understand why indie directors produce movies blatantly inspired by hugely iconic … Continue reading
Give it a rest…stop
Inching closer and closer to completing my goal of blogging about every horror movie in my collection (short of major horror films that have been talked to death), I’m focusing on franchises. So it’s time to take on the Rest … Continue reading
A creature feature, a supernatural urban legend, and an anthology
A little bit of everything in this trio of recent films I streamed and watched on cable. Are any of them worth a watch? Let’s find out. STRANGE NATURE (2018) Great title for this movie, which is strange in a … Continue reading
PRIME TIME: 2 flicks that get inside the head, but do they deliver the horror?
These two films explore the fears, memories, dark sides, and mental states of two different people: a single father and a single woman. But is what’s going on in their heads scary to us? DARK SILENCE (2016) I can’t be … Continue reading
PRIME TIME: found footage, a haunted whore house, and baby killer killers
A streaming session of indies brought me an assortment of subgenres, which is never a bad thing…as long as the movies aren’t bad. So let’s see how these three turned out. CHAR MAN (2019) I’ll get right to it. The … Continue reading
It’s a slasher, the supernatural, and a little of both in this triple feature
An impulse buy, a Prime flick, and a premium channel feature made this a marathon that was all over the map. So let’s get to it. HELL FEST (2018) The director of Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension goes for a … Continue reading
The Chair needs to take a seat because the Necromancer is queen
Well, Necromancer is at least the film I liked better of these two lost flicks from 1988 that I dug out of my DVD collection. THE CHAIR (1988) There were a handful of fun prison/electric chair horror films released in … Continue reading