The first movie trailer (and poster) for the new horror flick Devil hit the net last night. The trailer boasts that Devil is from the mind of M.Night Shyamalan, which before a slump of recent failures, used to actually mean something. With Devil, Shyamalan is only acting as producer, not writer and director. Devil takes [...]
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31 Days of Halloween: Day 30 – Paranormal Activity
One of the best success stories at the Box Office this year is the small scale horror flick Paranormal Activity. Directed and starring Hollywood nobodies, and made on a budget of less than $20,000, the movie uses simple visual effects to give the audience good horror chills. Even Stephen Spielberg has said he experienced some [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 29 – Child’s Play
My brother used to have a toy that looked very similar to Chucky from Child’s Play, and it scared the hell out of me. A doll that is possessed with a killer’s soul is something that even kids can even understand. It is both funny and disturbing to see an innocent play toy murder people [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 28 – Shaun of the Dead
One of the best zombie movies of all time, Shaun of the Dead mixed comedy and horror in a way rarely seen in film. You laugh just as much as you squirm. British comedy men Simon Pegg and Nick Frost play two guys seeking shelter with friends from a zombie outbreak in the safest place [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 27 – Hocus Pocus
Witches suck, especially when it’s witches who are looking to suck the souls of children to feed their eternal youth. In Hocus Pocus, three Salem witches were put to death for stealing the life-force from children 300 years ago, but when youthfully stupid Max lights a magic candle, they come back to life on Halloween [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 26 – Hard Candy
Disturbing and shocking, Hard Candy is so psychologically sickening that it deserves to make the Halloween list. It does not have the ghosts and demons we see in supernatural flicks, but instead shows the audience true monsters that exist in our world. Themes of voyeurism and pedophilia are treated accurately, which is why it is [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 25 – Gremlins
As a kid, I really had a hard time enjoying Gremlins. A kid down the street had a stuffed animal that looked like Gizmo, and for some reason I had this fear that it was somehow actually a gremlin. Needless to say, I never got near that stupid thing. But for Halloween, a good creature [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 24 – Misery
Crazy people make Halloween fun. When author Paul Sheldon is rescued from the snow after his car gets in an accident, he quickly learns the Good Samaritan is such a fan that she never wants him to leave. Being helpless in the hands of a total stranger is scary enough, but when the stranger is [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 23 – Jaws
Although it isn’t exactly a Halloween-inspired pick, Jaws is by far one of the most scariest movies of all time. A movie so intense that vacation resorts saw a hit on revenue because people were afraid to go into water. My family has said people did not even swim in the Great Lakes back in [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 22 – Scream
Although it comes across as spoof of horror/slasher films, Scream still maintains a great eerie feel. The killer’s costume, the calling motif, and playing up the staples of other slasher movies keep the audience guessing if the victims will continue making the same mistakes their counterparts do in other films, or wise up. The opening, [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 21 – Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Estimated to be portrayed a record 160+ times in film history, Dracula is practically a genre of film to itself. One of the best adaptations of the Count’s foray into bloodsucking is 1992′s Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Starring a list of some of Hollywood’s biggest names, Dracula tells the story of the classic vampire as he [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 20 – The Mist
I get so much crap for liking this movie, but I think it’s worth mentioning on this list. Starring Thomas Jane, The Mist puts a group of confused and scared survivors trapped in a supermarket isolated from a strange fog outside. What’s inside the mist is the question of many of the people, as the [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 19 – Hellraiser
Visually disturbing and graphically entertaining, Hellraiser showed the world one of the most demonic and evil visions of the supernatural realm. When a man unknowingly purchases a demonic puzzle, he soon discovers it opens our world to the monsters that the puzzle entraps. Clive Barker’s horrific film still remains in cult status today, as with [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 18 – Halloween
Jamie Lee Curtis got her career started by being chased by a murderous lunatic. Not Gary Busey, but her insane brother Michael Myers. In Halloween, Michael escapes a mental institution after years of incarceration for murder as a child, to find his sister. Directed by horror genius John Carpenter, the movie is a classic slasher [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 17 – 30 Days of Night
Based on the graphic novel of the same name, 30 Days of Night puts vampire horror in one of the best suited places for the bloodthirsty monsters to roam: Alaska. Since the Northern Territories experience extended periods of perpetual sunlight/darkness, it would not serve to be a great place to live, but more like a [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 16 – The Sixth Sense
I will never forget the kid in middle school that ruined the ending of The Sixth Sense for me. That did not stop me from going to watch it. There are a lot of people who are divided on M. Night Shyamalan’s talent as a director and storyteller, especially concerning Signs, The Village, and Lady [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 15 – A Nightmare on Elm Street
Wes Craven is a staple of the horror film genre. One of his most classic movies is 1984′s A Nightmare on Elm Street. Although they ended up later become more cheesy then scary, the original was by far the best in the series. It was the first feature that box office star Johnny Depp acted [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 14 – The Wicker Man
One Halloween a few years ago, IFC (Independent Film Channel) aired a movie called The Wicker Man. I had heard of it, and decided to watch it. When I finished watching it, I was not sure what I had just watched. The movie lacks jumpy scares and has a British cast (frightening by itself) and [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 11 – The Frighteners
Before making incredible films such as Lord of the Rings and King Kong, Peter Jackson directed a widely underrated supernatural thriller/comedy called The Frighteners. In it, Michael J. Fox plays a man who, after witnessing the death of his wife, learns he has the ability to see ghosts, and exploits it. His interests change after [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 10 – Saw
When Saw was released in 2004, audiences around the country had never seen such gore and gratuitous blood in a film. Although the cast and production level were direct-to-DVD, the film got such a positive response at Sundance (the version shown was actually NC-17), and the movie got a feature film release. Jigsaw’s traps and [...]
