by mike | Apr 11, 2022 | Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
The story contained within the remarkable 2018 horror film, A Quiet Place, began on “Day 89” and went forward from there. So when A Quiet Place: Part II (2020) opens on “Day 1” we are assured of finding out how it all started. But it is not entirely a prequel to the...
by mike | Apr 7, 2022 | Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
I watched this film again the other day, and I still marvel at the subtle terror that it engenders. This post first ran in 2018. 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...
by mike | Nov 25, 2021 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Uncategorized |
Happy Thanksgiving! Well, it was earth-shaking news six years ago, when the Tremors franchise added Tremors 5: Bloodlines. But since then, we’ve seen two more hit the (small) screen! I recently re-ran my posts on the sequels to Tremors, the classic comedy-horror flick...
by mike | Oct 4, 2021 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Okay, just to clarify, The Meg is a borderline Guilty Pleasure by virtue of its so-so reviews (one reviewer said, “…neither good enough, nor bad enough”), though it did do well at the box office, and a sequel is planned. Whatever; I would’ve enjoyed this creature...
by mike | Sep 27, 2021 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Uncategorized |
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 seventh film in the long-running Tremors franchise. And second, when a graboid dies a...
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...
