Welcome to Part 5 of my countdown of the 100 Greatest Horror Films! Read Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 here. We are almost to the top 50 folks! This section contains quite a few stories about the Devil. He’s green goo in one film, Robert DeNiro in other, a black goat in the...
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Welcome to Part 4 of my countdown of the 100 Greatest Horror films! You can reads Parts 1, 2, and 3 right here. Once again, the numbers are basically arbitrary until we get to the top twenty or unless otherwise stated. These are simply the 100 horror films that have had the most profound...
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10 Cloverfield Lane is a movie that works on subverting expectations – for both the audience and its characters. It does this continually throughout its svelte 106 minute runtime, but first with its own name. The title of the film suggests some kind of tie-in to the 2008 found footage monster movie Cloverfield – and...
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I’ve made it no secret on this site that horror is my home genre. I’ve been a fan of horror films since before I could walk. Not really sure why. When people ask me why I like the genre so much, I’m hard pressed to come up with a solid answer. This is partly...
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A red light blinks on in the arid darkness – the pulsing signal of a radio tower, looming over the vast, unknowable desert, and the curious little town below. Fumbling for the dial on your dashboard, tuning past the usual bird shrieks and a woman reciting numbers at random, you find him at last:...
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It doesn’t take long for The Witch to make a lasting impression. We meet the title character very early on. She’s hidden in shadows, obscured by branches, and in the midst of doing something unspeakable. Her actions are further obscured by the awful sounds made by her walking stick and her rapid, shallow breathing. Writer-director Robert...
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One of the hardest things for a movie to evoke is a mounting sense of dread. There are so many horror and thriller films that rely on violence or staccato blasts of music to put the audience on the edge of their seats. It’s much harder to make the audience feel unsafe by seemingly...
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You’ve never seen a haunted house like this one. It doesn’t simply creak at night; the east wind howls through it with deafening force. There are no leaks in the ceiling but there is a giant hole directly above the main foyer. Snow falls as if it has been invited. The water from the...
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There’s a small horror movie from Germany playing in select theaters right now that most critics are hailing as some kind of dark masterpiece in the vein of The Babadook and It Follows. That kind of praise, coupled with it’s creepy trailer, got my attention real quick so I’m sorry to report that Goodnight Mommy is a stunning disappointment....
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The Visit looks like an easy movie to make fun of. It’s got an inherently creepy premise that could easily teter over into unintentional comedy in the wrong director’s hands. One need only take a look at the trailers to see what I’m talking about. Any movie that treats an old lady screaming ‘YAHTZEE’ into...
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