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'Halloween' (2018) Review
Halloween takes place 40 years after Michael Myers murdered five people on Halloween night in 1978. We're supposed to go into this movie completely ignoring the second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth movie. In my opinion, you should go in thinking of the first AND second one.
By Cassie Fetto7 years ago in Horror
Alligator!
(You’ve all heard the old saw about “alligators in the sewers,” right? Supposedly, back during the 1960s when buying people baby alligators as pets became a fad, people ended up worriedly flushing them down the toilet when the scary little things got to be too big. This happened again and again, until, according to urban legend, there now resides in the sewers beneath major cities a horrific population of mutant albino gators, just waiting for their chance to crawl to the surface—most assuredly in some crime-infested area—and wreak their vengeance.)
By Tom Baker7 years ago in Horror
The Girl Came Home
She did her hair, carefully, slowly, in front of the mirror. She put on her mascara and lipstick equally carefully, dousing herself with a little perfume. On the radio, The Ronettes sang about wanting you to be their baby; it was 1963.
By Tom Baker7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'The Pact' (2012)
OH MY GOD THIS MOVIE WAS SO FUCKING BORING! It didn't fail my "30 Minute Rule," but really, it should have. This movie jumps right into the plot, and the really creepy stuff starts happening no more than 15 minutes in... but then, there's just this fucking lull till the last 15 minutes. I really am thinking about changing the 30 Minute Rule to "if nothing happens for over 30 minutes." Housebound had the same damn problem. Actually, this movie is a lot like Housebound without the comedy, to the point were I had wondered if Housebound was as spoof of this movie.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
The Golden Arm
For all I know, Mr. Peters is a ghost himself now. Back then, though, he was an elementary school teacher in a Department of Defense School, one located on a military base in Panama, Central America. The year was probably 1985.
By Tom Baker7 years ago in Horror
The Old State Hospital
I am working late in this school that the town has decided to renovate. This school use to be an old state hospital and just looks like a giant lost cause. I have no desire to be here, never mind until midnight. I am going to be buffing the floors and polishing the wood in the new library. I will also be sweeping, vacuuming, and making sure all the last details are done and clean now that the contractors have cleared that area. I have been at my job for the last five years bouncing from school to school. To put it simply, I go where I am needed. I usually work with a partner, but she called out tonight due to being sick—as if I haven’t heard that excuse several times before. I am upset because we are the dream team of clean and typically get everything done quite efficiently. Most of the time we can either leave early or play cards before securing the building for the night. Tonight is going to be long, lonely, and boring being stuck by myself. I have heard a lot of rumors about this place and it’s not anything good. I guess the state hospital held more than just tuberculosis patients. It was also home to doctors with what some might call sinister intentions. It is because of this that the state hospital has very dark secrets and heartbreaking tragedy inside its walls.
By Amanda DeGrasse7 years ago in Horror
Movie Review 'Dry Blood'
Dry Blood stars Clint Carney as Brian Barnes, a drug addict desperately hoping to get clean. After waking up in his car in some lonely Los Angeles alley, with no idea what he did in the preceding days, Brian decides he wants to quit. So, Brian calls a friend to be his sponsor and join him as he dries out a cabin he owns on a remote, California mountainside.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'House of Last Things' (2013)
Let's talk about how you definitely don't fucking start a movie... golf in slow motion. Why THE FUCK on God's green Earth would you intentionally want to make the most boring sport in the world even more boring by playing it in slow motion?! Who fucking thought that was a brilliant opener?! Better watch out for that eighth hole, that eighth hole is fucking cursed... REALLY?! I have no fucking clue what they were trying to accomplish with golf in slow motion. I'm thinking about naming retarded openings "Golf In Slow Motion" and adding it to the Mental Vomit list. That's how fucking dumb the opening to this movie was. It deserves its own category of bad plot devices. Even the fucking mayonnaise on white bread people who some-fucking-how convince themselves that they actually like watching golf, probably wouldn't watch it in slow motion.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
How to Sleep After a Horror Movie Fright-Fest
If you're anything like me, there's a good chance that you are either a horror movie fan or frequently find yourself surrounded by people who are (I am the latter, by the way). These days, horror directors and producers are going to ever-more extreme lengths to satisfy the urges of genre fans, leading to more and more fright-fests on our collective screens every year. I, for one, am not ashamed to admit that some recent horror fare has left me deeply unsettled (think ants on Charlie's decapitated head in Hereditary), and driven me to near insomnia. Since I'm sure I am not alone in feeling that way, I figured I'd share my own battle-tested strategies for getting to sleep peacefully after watching a scary movie. Here's how to do it.
By Andrea Dawson7 years ago in Horror
High Noon
"That kid wasn't nothin' but a greenhorn. Why, I did him and the world a favor by putting a bullet in 'im,” the lanky cowboy said, laughing along with the rest of his gang at their table in the Rusty Spur, a rough saloon on Whisper Street in Heaven's Gate.
By Jeremy Andrews7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'The Awakening' (2011)
Yeah, this movie was pretty good. Oddly sexual for a movie about a paranormal investigator at a boys academy. I can compare the atmosphere and stylization to The Others, without the lame twist ending.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Little Red Riding Hood
Long, red velvet, sweet like blood on a pale scrawny child, one of the prettiest creatures alive—so pretty that it disgusts me—one look at her face could swallow you into another dimension, but only one was immune to this effect. On the day of the cruel deed, this child known as Little Red Riding Hood was headed to help her sickly vulnerable grandmother. She wandered upon a dreary cold forest where only a single dim ray shot through a crevice in the trees as the sun was about to set with her being unaware of the trap she was about to walk into. All kinds of deadly creatures—fiends from hell—are awakened at night, especially the wolf who was growing weaker by the minute because his sad measly stomach hadn't eaten for days.
By M López7 years ago in Horror