31 Nights of Horror. Night 14: The Thing (1982)
Tonight’s film is a classic. It is directed by John Carpenter of (the original) Halloween fame. It is about a alien monster that attempts to take over a remote American Antarctic outpost led by Kurt Russell, fresh off his Escape from New York success, the Quaker Oatmeal man and the guy that played the captain […]
31 Nights of Horror. Night 9. Dracula
In Francis Ford Coppola’s version of the classic tale of a blood lusting vampire, Dracula (1992), he takes a unique spin on the franchise that has been scaring us at the theater since the early 1920s with Nosferatu. In Dracula, Coppola tries his best to make a masterpiece that closely follow’s Bram Stoker’s original […]
31 Nights of Horror. Night 8: The Devils Rejects
Tonight’s film was the follow up to The House of 1000 Corpses. It is Rob Zombie’s film, The Devil’s Rejects (2005). In Rejects we return to the scene of the crime in rural Texas where a family of crazed misfits lead by Otis and Baby and a demented clown that goes by the name Captain. […]
31 Nights of Horror. Night 7: House of 1000 Corpses
Welcome to the demented world of Mr. Rob Fu**in’ Zombie! House of 1000 Corpses (2003) was the directorial debut of the #1 horror fan and rock god, Rob Zombie. Filmed in 2000 but not released until three years later, in part because of pressure from the distributors not to release the film because of the […]
31 Nights of Horror. Night 6: The Cabin in the Woods
I had no idea what to expect when I rented The Cabin in the Woods (2011) from Redbox on Friday night. I was expecting the typical slash ’em up flick that we have grown so tired of in horror movie. But Cabin is nothing like you would expect. I would have to say it was […]