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...
by mike | Aug 5, 2024 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Monsters, Movies, Uncategorized |
Oh yeah, this is a golden oldie, to be sure. The 1985 horror flick, Silver Bullet, is based on a 1983 novella by Stephen King titled, Cycle of the Werewolf. King wrote the screenplay for the film, which did not resonate with most critics. Who cares? I’ve always...
by mike | Aug 1, 2024 | Blowing Shit Up, Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
These two films constitute a real Blowing-Shit-Up-Fest. I first presented this post in 2021. 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...
by mike | Jul 22, 2024 | Books, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
The 2008 “survival/horror” film, The Ruins, is based on the 2006 novel of the same name. Its author, Scott Smith, also wrote the screenplay, so he must’ve known what mattered in paring down the nearly 400-page tome into 90 minutes of screen time. Even so, the...
