1980s Horror Films
Event Report: Shock Pop ComicCon
I was able to attend the first annual Shock Pop ComicCon this past weekend, and am happy to say that it was a well put together, competent event. It’s always a gamble with a new event and I was somewh...
Why A New Beginning is the Most Unsung Friday the 13th Movie
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is, as I have written before, is the ultimate Jason Voorhees movie. It’s the perfect embodiment of all things Friday the 13th. It did not, however, deliver on the pr...
IDW Developing New Comic Book Sequel to ‘The Fly’
Fans of The Fly will be happy to hear that the series that began with David Cronenberg’s 1986 remake will be returning… in comic book form. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that IDW i...
A Viewing Guide to the Howling Series
The Howling franchise sounds great on paper. It really seems like common sense for there to be a long-lived and successful werewolf series. Add in an anthology format and it’s almost a no-braine...
Overlooked and Underrated: Video Violence
Video Violence is probably the best of the shot-on-video horror sub-genre, which is not great by definition. It’s a different mentality, it’s true no-budget filmmaking and the movies alway...
Trespassers Will Be Violated: Revisiting Scarecrows
Scarecrows was an almost entirely forgotten 1980’s horror movie until it was released on DVD a couple years ago. Now it’s gained a bit of a cult following and is gearing up fro a Blu-Ray release via S...
Friday the 13th – The Final Chapter: The Essential Jason Movie
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. Of course the film turned out to not be as the title promised. But nonetheless it is a fan-favorite and an essential slasher...
Witchboard Retrospective – Wicked Ouija Board
[soliloquy id=”4746″] In Witchboard, a group of friends pull out a Ouija Board at a party to make contact with the spirit world. In the process, an entity latches onto Linda, one of the pa...
