Part II: Viewing There is, perhaps, little that I could add to the general cacophony of voices that have judged Troll 2 and found it wanting. One more damned cry in the night will affect no-one; especially when there already exists so many who have suffered. In spite of numerous preparations, I was ill-prepared for what I … Continue reading A Troll 2 Movie Review in Two Parts
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A Troll 2 Movie Review in Two Parts
Part I: Preparations For the bad horror movie aficionado, there are several movies that must be seen. Plan 9 from Outer Space, for example, is a given. It's delightfully awful and made with love, which makes its terribleness that much more tragic. I have seen a great many bad movies, but there is one that I … Continue reading A Troll 2 Movie Review in Two Parts
Horror Movie Primer: Zombies
Movie zombies haven't always been what they are now: rotting corpses who eat the living. Before George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, cinematic zombies were more steeped in their original voodoo lore. They were the result of witchcraft and bad juju, not viruses and teethmarks. If you really want to see zombies as they … Continue reading Horror Movie Primer: Zombies
Horror Movie Primer: Ghosts
Movies about ghosts, spirits and the like can really be separated into two categories: Haunted Houses and Everything Else. I'm not the biggest fan of haunted house movies. If one's house is haunted, one simply moves to a new house. Problem solved and there's no reason to have fifteen movies based on one goddamn house. Still, there … Continue reading Horror Movie Primer: Ghosts
Not Scared of a Steadicam
I haven't been scared by a book or movie in a long time. Oh sure, I've managed to scare myself by walking in the woods at night while bears rustle around in the underbrush, but that's not the same thing. If you have to put yourself in danger to scare yourself, it's not as much … Continue reading Not Scared of a Steadicam
Horror Movie Primer: Monsters
For the uninitiated, finding the proper horror movie can be a difficult and daunting task. You're feeling a dire need to get into a Halloween mood, but you don't know which movie to get and your weird friend that watched too many horror movies and who talked about them way too much went crazy and … Continue reading Horror Movie Primer: Monsters
Slashed
Perhaps the most tasteless and least artistically driven of all horror films are slasher films (ignoring the new torture genre, because I refuse to acknowledge it). The very premise (killer kills people) is not the headiest point to start from, but there have been worthwhile whacks at the genre. Psycho is a proto-slasher movie, the one who … Continue reading Slashed
The Man Behind the Mask
A blog is often a place for people to vent their secret shames. They can say what they want to say without fear, because the people reading it are, for the most part, complete strangers. It's a way to unburden one's self. That's not really true with my blog. My blog is more read by … Continue reading The Man Behind the Mask
A Ghost Story: The Lady in Black
It's 1862 and General Burnside has successfully gained control of Roanoke Island. The Confederate soldiers who were captured were sent up to Fort Warren in Massachusetts, a detention center for prisoners of war. Among those captured was Lieutenant Samuel Lanier, a soldier out of Georgia. Lieutenant Lanier manages to smuggle a letter out of the fort to his … Continue reading A Ghost Story: The Lady in Black
In Search of Ghosts
Since Halloween is now closer than ever, I've been getting interested in the spooky again. This time, what with living in such an old city, my focus has been on haunted places: houses, forts, graveyards and what-have-you. Problematically for me, however, is the fact that I do not believe in the supernatural. This causes an … Continue reading In Search of Ghosts
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