31 Days of Halloween 2015: Day 30 – Going to Pieces John E. Meredith October 30, 2015 Movies, Reviews GOING TO PIECES is a historical and critical look at the much-maligned slasher films that really took off in the early '80s.
31 Days of Halloween 2015: Day 29 – The Danse Macabre John E. Meredith October 29, 2015 Movies, Reviews So dim the lights, cue the music, and bring on the horror of the Danse Macabre.
31 Days of Halloween 2015: Day 28 – Christine John E. Meredith October 28, 2015 Movies, Reviews There is a spark, then flames. Christine pulls out of the inferno, completely engulfed in flames.
31 Days of Halloween 2015: Day 27 – Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II John E. Meredith October 27, 2015 Movies, Reviews Prom Night II is a funhouse mirror reflection of about twelve better movies, a drunken misremembering of CARRIE and NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET.
31 Days of Halloween 2015: Day 26 – Heavenly Creatures John E. Meredith October 26, 2015 Movies, Reviews While it's not my favorite Jackson film, Heavenly Creatures is probably the one where he's drawn the most realistic characters.
31 Days of Halloween 2015: Day 25 – Clownhouse John E. Meredith October 25, 2015 Movies, Reviews Well, somehow I missed all of this molestation business until after I had already seen CLOWNHOUSE a couple times.
31 Days of Halloween 2015: Day 24 – The Rapture & The Devils John E. Meredith October 24, 2015 Movies, Reviews Roger Ebert called Michael Tolkin's THE RAPTURE "one of the most radical, infuriating, engrossing, challenging movies" he had ever seen.
31 Days of Halloween 2015: Day 23 – Ginger Snaps John E. Meredith October 23, 2015 Movies, Reviews In Ginger Snaps, the girls are showing us how good a werewolf movie can be.
31 Days of Halloween 2015: Day 22 – The Stendhal Syndrome John E. Meredith October 22, 2015 Movies, Reviews THE STENDHAL SYNDROME isn't my favorite Argento. Like just about everyone else, that would probably be SUSPIRIA or DEEP RED.
31 Days of Halloween 2015: Day 21 – Funny Games John E. Meredith October 21, 2015 Movies, Reviews In Funny Games, a couple of decent-looking, seemingly well-educated young men force their way into the cottage of Anna and Georg Schober.
31 Days of Halloween 2015: Day 20 – Threads John E. Meredith October 20, 2015 Movies, Reviews THREADS is not found on many top-twenty horror lists, though it’s much scarier than any axe-wielding maniac or demon-infected child.
31 Days of Halloween 2015: Day 19 – Paperhouse John E. Meredith October 19, 2015 Movies, Reviews When it came out in the late '80s, PAPERHOUSE was hailed as "the thinking person's NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET," but that doesn't paint the right picture.
31 Days of Halloween 2015: Day 18 – Black Death John E. Meredith October 18, 2015 Movies, Trailers Black Death is a kind of Dark Ages pulp fiction that questions what we might think about religion with lots of blood and ripped-off arms.
31 Days of Halloween 2015: Day 17 – The Brood John E. Meredith October 17, 2015 Movies, Reviews When he released THE BROOD upon the world in 1979, David Cronenberg referred to it as his version of KRAMER VS. KRAMER.
31 Days of Halloween 2015: Day 16 – The Films of Val Lewton John E. Meredith October 16, 2015 Movies, Reviews Martin Scorsese said that Val Lewton "never had any aspirations to direct, but the movies he produced belonged to him."
31 Days of Halloween 2015: Day 15 – Dead Snow John E. Meredith October 15, 2015 Movies, Reviews Let's just get this out of the way right now: Dead Snow is stupid as hell.
31 Days of Halloween 2015: Day 14 – Pontypool John E. Meredith October 14, 2015 Movies, Reviews If you surrender yourself to Pontypool, it will definitely drag you, speechless, into its very zombie-like spirit.
31 Days of Halloween 2015: Day 13 – The House of the Devil John E. Meredith October 13, 2015 Movies, Reviews The House of the Devil is so well done, every note played to such perfection, that you forget that it's been done a million times before.
31 Days of Halloween 2015: Day 12 – The Reflecting Skin John E. Meredith October 12, 2015 Movies, Reviews The Reflecting Skin ends with a deeply felt scream that is the closest we're going to get to a catharsis here.
31 Days of Halloween 2015: Day 10 – Angel Heart John E. Meredith October 10, 2015 Movies, Reviews It seems pretty obvious where ANGEL HEART is going from early on. Maybe it's just me.
