The Nightmare on Elm Street films are about former child killer Freddy Krueger, who was burned alive by the parents of the victims. Some of the Elm Street children survived, and are now teens whom Freddy stalks in their dreams and kills them. The Dream Demon creatively enters the … Read More
ThanksKilling. A Thanksgiving movie to end all thanksgiving movies. A killer fowl mouthed Turkie and a ton of Thanksgiving puns, what more could you want? Wait. What’s that? You want a musical? You got it! Yep. That’s right. ThanksKilling is now a musical. Be still my beating heart. We … Read More
I would have thought that the Letter “U” would be tough. But I was wrong. There are quite a few with a “U” as a header. This time, we are going to both ends of the Millennium, with a couple of films by pioneers and then a view of what … Read More
Sit down. Have something to drink. Would you like a scone with that? Maybe the antidote? Here we are again, dear viewers. Another letter, another group of intriguing short films. As with “R” and “S”, the letter “T” has a good quantity of choices. To go along with this, … Read More
You can tell that this series is winding down as the titles are getting less and less creative and more and more ridiculous. I had a vision of an undead Dorothy Gale, singing to a skeletal Toto in an alternate Kansas. Hence the title. Today, we travel to Canada, France, … Read More
“Final Destination” is a horror franchise about people who escape death, and are then hunted down and killed one-by-one by an inescapable supernatural force. The series features groups of people who manage to avoid dying in horrible tragic accidents when the main character witnesses a premonition of the event, wakes up … Read More
“Sorority Slaughterhouse” (2016) Directed by David DeCoteau. Starring Eric Roberts, Jessica Morris and Jean Louise O’Sullivan. Bad girl sorority sisters are locked in a house with a deranged killer doll. After a sorority sister ends her affair with a college Dean, he transfers his soul into a talking clown doll and … Read More
I come from the primordial ooze! Well, not really. But I do come from a time before MTV and music videos. This time of year, the radio stations would play novelty records that had monster themes. Add to this the syndicated Dr. Demento Show on Sunday nights (in Philly), and … Read More
Each year for the past couple, I have scoured the websites of the world of Cable to find all the horror, sci-fi and fantasy films that are being shown on or around Halloween. This year, Halloween falls on a Monday. Most of the channels out there are showing our … Read More
In 1954, Toho Studios bankrolled the concept of a monster, created by the nuclear bomb, rising from the depths of the ocean and laying waste to Tokyo. The movie was less about the monster and more about nuclear warfare. Most of the discussion of the use of the H-Bomb only … Read More
