by mike | Nov 21, 2024 | Adventure fantasy, Fantasy, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Uncategorized |
Heck, even Mickey, Donald, and Goofy climbed a beanstalk in search of a giant! I first presented this post about Jack the Giant Slayer in 2021. The 2013 fantasy-adventure film, Jack the Giant Slayer, is based on a nearly 300-year-old British fairytale titled, The...
by mike | Nov 14, 2024 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
The sequel to The Meg, alluded to in this post, was a disappointment, like so many sequels. I first presented this post in 2021. Okay, just to clarify, The Meg is a borderline Guilty Pleasure by virtue of its so-so reviews (one reviewer said, “…neither good enough, or...
by mike | Nov 7, 2024 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Uncategorized |
Are they going to make an eighth Tremors movie? Who knows? This post first ran in 2021. That title is a double entendre, don’t you know? In the first place, the giant worm-things known as graboids are back on the small screen in Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020), the...
by mike | Sep 16, 2024 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
The 1988 “supernatural slasher” film, Child’s Play, introduced the world to Chucky, the Good Guy doll possessed by the spirit of a deranged serial killer. I’ve watched it a number of times over the past 36 years and had always thought of it as one of my (many) guilty...
by mike | Aug 22, 2024 | Death, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
I think there’s a vampire living across the street…and I’m in California. 😊 This post first ran in 2021. I could easily have presented the 1998 horror flick, Vampires (aka John Carpenter’s Vampires) as a Guilty Pleasure, since it met all of my parameters. (A D+...
by mike | Aug 8, 2024 | Death, Ghosts, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
This weird film could easily have been titled, Horror for Dummies. I first presented this post in 2021. Horror producer/director James Wan has been associated with a number of successful films, including the Insidious franchise and the (mostly) awesome Conjuring...
