by mike | Jul 15, 2021 | Horror, Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Uncategorized |
The dialogue in horror movies can range from outrageously humorous to super creepy. Here are just a few, all of the films prior to 1990. This post first ran in 2017. “They’re coming to get you, Barbra.” The jerk who said this to his sister in the 1968 film, Night of...
by mike | Jul 1, 2021 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Museums, Myths & Legends, Uncategorized |
Loved the book, loved the movie. I first presented this post in 2017. This 1997 horror film is based on the best-selling book, Relic, by popular authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Fans of these two know that this novel marks the initial appearance of the...
by mike | Jun 28, 2021 | Death, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
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+ rating by audiences, no less!) But I gave it a pass because it was filmed in New Mexico, one of my favorite...
by mike | Jun 14, 2021 | Death, Ghosts, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
Horror producer/director James Wan has been associated with a number of successful films, including the Insidious franchise and the (mostly) awesome Conjuring Universe. But his 2007 effort, Dead Silence, is not exactly one of those successes. Bad reviews (20% on...
by mike | Jun 7, 2021 | Blowing Shit Up, Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Each of these two movies, the classic Predator (1987) and the not-so-classic Predator 2 (1990), features a single antagonist—a nasty-looking dude with dreads. So why, one would wonder, does it take an ungodly amount of blowing shit up to bring these alien hunters...
by mike | Jun 3, 2021 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Uncategorized |
Who else—or WHAT else—roams the underground of Manhattan? This post first ran in 2017. When I wrote about the late John Heard last week I mentioned that one of his earliest screen roles was in the 1984 horror movie, C.H.U.D. I would’ve eventually written about this...
