I have never seen much of the Halloween series. I watched the first two or three and I've seen Rob Zombie's attempts, but that's about it. Considering it's the movie that started the slasher genre, I've paid shockingly very little attention to it. So I'm going to delve right in and watch all eight of … Continue reading Trying New Things
Tag: Jason Voorhees
Rock and Shock 2013
I have to say that up until today, my Halloween spirit was lacking. I haven't been watching scary movies. I haven't been eating more than my usual share of fun sized Snickers bars. I haven't been reveling in my usual Halloween activities. October has just been steadily and speedily been moving along and the whole … Continue reading Rock and Shock 2013
31 Days of Spoooktacular: Masks
Masks are scary. And not just masks of scary aliens or wolves or demons. I know for a fact that there are people who find the above mask creepy, even though there is nothing inherently creepy about it. There's no blood or fangs. There's nothing sinister about it. It represents no gender, race or deformity. … Continue reading 31 Days of Spoooktacular: Masks
31 Days of Spoooktacular: The Remade
Between 2007 and 2010, all three of the major slasher icons were featured in reboots of the old movies. Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers stalked the silver screen again in "fresh" "re-imaginings" of the old movies. Halloween came first, followed shortly by Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street. The idea that … Continue reading 31 Days of Spoooktacular: The Remade
The Rules of Horror
Horror movies exist primarily to do one thing: scare people. And, for the most part, horror movies fail in that one goal. They shock, they gross out, they startle, but they don't truly scare. There's nothing scary about Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger. There's nothing scary about torture porn like Hostel and the entire Saw … Continue reading The Rules of Horror
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 Rough Beast Slouches Toward October to Be Born
As Halloween draws ever closer, it becomes clearer to the people closest to me that I'm going completely and utterly insane. I'll spend hours watching the Friday the 13th movies over and over again. I'll leap from unlikely places and frighten old ladies. I'll cover myself in red corn syrup and run through the streets … Continue reading A Rough Beast Slouches Toward October to Be Born
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