by mike | Oct 29, 2018 | Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
It’s that time again. Living in a gated 55+ community, I no longer have to hand out Halloween candy at the front door, since no one does trick-or-treating. These days I spend the holiday enjoying a horror movie marathon…three or four shockers, and sometimes more. The...
by mike | Oct 22, 2018 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares, Uncategorized |
Arnold Schwarzenegger in a horror movie? Yes, he starred in the 1999 clunker, End of Days. Wait, did I say clunker? Well, the reviews were uniformly bad, but since I’m easily entertained, that never bothered me. I get a kick out of this film, and in truth it is an...
by mike | Sep 3, 2018 | Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Monster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
The 2018 monster movie, Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell, is the sixth in a film series that began with the 1990 release, Tremors, which starred Kevin Bacon as Valentine McKee. Indeed, this series has run for nearly three decades—with an eleven-year hiatus between the 2004...
by mike | Aug 6, 2018 | Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Just how scary is the 2018 thriller, A Quiet Place? Okay, perhaps you’ve seen a Cox commercial where a woman is watching Stranger Things and sitting on the edge of her couch looking seriously freaked out. That’s about what this jaded horror aficionado looked like all...
by mike | Aug 2, 2018 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
No in-between: you either love this movie, or you despise it. This post first ran in 2014. A while back I wondered why my favorite Godzilla flick—the 1998 version starring Matthew Broderick—never spawned a sequel. And for that matter, why did I even consider it a...
by mike | Jul 30, 2018 | Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Psychological Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Ah, scary flicks…no surprise that I love the genre. (What does that say about me?) Here are a few lines from some of my favorites. “They’re coming to get you, Barbara…there’s one of them now!” Smart-ass (and soon to be dead) Johnny to his sister in George Romero’s...
