by mike | Oct 26, 2020 | Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Myths & Legends, Nightmares, Uncategorized |
To tell the truth, I don’t think any horror movie, past or present, could be much scarier than Year 2020. Am I right? (Well, maybe The Conjuring or The Babadook come close.) And since Halloween falls on a Saturday, otherwise known as College Football Day around our...
by mike | Oct 19, 2020 | Horror, Humor, Monsters, Myths & Legends, Uncategorized |
Would a horror movie with a title like that make you want to sign up with another streaming service so you can watch it? No, I didn’t think so. But just such a creature emerged from the ocean off Clearwater, Florida over seventy years ago—or did it? WE SEE WHAT WE...
by mike | Oct 5, 2020 | Death, Horror, Myths & Legends, Nightmares, Uncategorized |
When Wes Craven, the late film director, needed source material for his 1977 horror classic, The Hills Have Eyes, he turned to a story that combined truth and possibly fiction. An easy choice: he referenced the legend of Sawney Bean. For those who are not aficionados...
by mike | Sep 7, 2020 | Creature Features, Disaster Movies, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
The 2019 creature feature/disaster flick, Crawl, is an anomaly. It did well at the box office, which is not that odd for the genre. But it also garnered its share of excellent reviews, compiling 83% on Rotten Tomatoes, and that doesn’t usually happen for creature...
by mike | Aug 3, 2020 | Horror, Monsters, Myths & Legends, Uncategorized |
Did a woman named Deborah Leeds give birth to a spawn of Satan in 1735? According to the folklore of the forested Pine Barrens region in the southern part of what is now New Jersey, she sure as heck did. Here is one possible scenario about the creation of the legend...
by mike | Jun 15, 2020 | Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Until recently I had not watched the excellent 1986 remake of The Fly in many years. This is my excuse for forgetting that I should not have viewed the film so close to dinnertime. Appetite gone! Indeed, by virtue of its Academy Award-winning makeup effects, as well...
