The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972)
Solid golden age Giallo starring Italian cinematic royalty Edwige Fenech and George Hilton filled with 70’s style, the requisite stabby...
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Blood Lake (1987)
This slice of home-made regional horror is not objectively ‘good’ by all the usual markers of quality (script / performances /...
Demon Wind (1990)
This goofy ass flick is a mix of Evil Dead (friends go to an isolated location / evil book) & Demons (lots of Demons) & has Vinegar ...
Just Before Dawn (1981)
Jeff Lieberman’s backwoods horror comes from that golden early ‘80s period when the tropes of the genre had yet to crystallize into the...
Leatherface (2017)
This recent entry in the most convoluted horror franchise ever, tells the un-needed story of how Jackson Sawyer came to wear a mask of...
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
This wild dose of Maximum King is a coked out whirlwind of sentient machines gore and pure unadulterated fun. Maximum Overdrive is often...
The Deep House (2021)
The haunted house movie is dragged to the bottom of a lake in order to refresh the genre and mostly succeeds. This underwater horror...
Christine (1983)
After The Thing flopped in 1982, John Carpenter lost his next gig which was meant to be Firestarter, but instead he picked up a...
Children of the Corn (1984)
One of the more middle of the road (row?) entries in King’s film oeuvre, Children of the Corn is still a mildly fun excursion into rural...
The Shining (1980)
Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece The Shining is a top 5 horror film for me. Full of madness, familial dischord and elemental terror, it gets...
Carrie (1976)
• #31dayzofking kicks off with the first adaptation of Stephen King’s work, Brian DePalma’s Carrie. An absolute classic, I love how the...
The Empty Man (2020)
The first night, you hear him. The second night, you see him. The third night, he finds you. . How to describe this strange genre bending...
Wolf Vs Wolf: The Two Great Werewolf Films of 1981.
This article contains spoilers for these 40 year old films. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of An American Werewolf in London, I'm...
The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
Close your eyes for a second…and sleep forever. Another early ‘80s slasher gem, Slumber plays by the rules for the most part but benefits...
The Gate (1987) Review
The last time I watched this fun coming of age horror was on VHS probably around 1989, so it’s been 30 long years between viewings. And...
Near Dark: a look back at the 80's vamp classic
Before The Hurt Locker, Strange Days & Point Break, Kathryn Bigelow made one of the most original vampire movies of the 80’s & maybe...
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