With apologies to “Schoolhouse Rock”, another letter enters the arena of Short Horror Films. For those of you who are much younger and didn’t get to see “Schoolhouse Rock”, back when Saturday Morning Cartoons were on all three major networks and Cap’n Crunch was in great supply, I am … Read More
The letter “K” is not the easiest of letters. Historically, there are few classic films that begin with the letter. Offhand, I can only think of a couple of films like “Kasablanca,” “Kat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Katch-22.” Of the shorts that I have seen, only two … Read More
“The Shallows” (2016) Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. Starring Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada and Brett Cullen. Smart movie about woman vs. shark. Similar in intensity to “Jaws,” with deeper character development. It’s your basic girl meets shark, shark likes girl, but girl isn’t really into shark, story. We have a plucky heroine evading … Read More
“The Conjuring 2” (2016) Directed by James Wan. Starring Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson and Madison Wolfe. Demonologist Ed Warren and his clairvoyant medium wife Lorraine travel to England to confront evil in multiple forms as they come to the aid of a beleaguered single mother and her four children tormented by a … Read More
Scream Season 2 Episode 2 “Psycho” Emma flees the old Troy James house in terror as a hooded figure lurks within. She breathlessly tells Brooke about the collage of her childhood pics on the wall, and they take off in Brooke’s car. Back at the Duval residence, Maggie … Read More
First, a word of warning. No part of the following review mentions any sounds Jake makes. Hey, don’t be mad. You clicked on the clickbait. It’s been 9 months since we last saw the Lakewood crew. Let’s recap. In 1994, a deformed small town teenager named Brandon James fell … Read More
If you read last time’s article, you may have considered that the phone number at the end was a reference to Tommy Tutone’s classic song “Jenny”. “What does this have to do with the letter J?”, you ask. Has Fink finally gone off his nut? Nah, folks, that happened years … Read More
One of my favorite covers from my favorite horror comic. Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians recorded the song “I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream” back in 1927. Hard to believe that it would have such a lasting effect on yours truly. Not that I was … Read More
“The Boy” (2016) Directed by William Brent Bell. Starring Lauren Cohan and Rupert Evans. Greta Evans takes a nanny job for an eccentric rich couple. The catch? They want her to babysit their doll, Brahms. They claim he is possessed by the spirit of a boy. But, is the … Read More
H’s entry in our A-to-Z short horror film review series is rather a mixed bag of blood, entrails and beasties, all put together in what Alfred Hitchcock once titled one of his short story compilations, “Death Bag.” Nearly all of today’s subjects are from the United States, with a … Read More
