Tag: horror movie

• Splatterpictures VS Remakes! (horror rant)

  “No movie executive has ever been fired for greenlighting a sequel”. – Roger Ebert   I get asked a lot about my opinions on remakes and or sequels. I am usually hesitant to even comment because I have always believed that there is room enough in the world for everyone’s favourite movie. (be it original …

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  December 9, 2011

• Vampyr 1932 (re-visited)

  One of the first posts I ever did was actually much older pieces I did just for facebook. I discussed vampire movies before 1935. I touched on the films Vampyr, which to this day is one of my favourites. I didn’t really give it the credit it deserved because I was still new at this.…

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  November 12, 2011

• Black Sunday (1960)

  It’s funny that when you think about the major studio horror productions of the 1930’s and 40’s where even the slightest thing that could be considered blasphemous would be edited or cut altogether. A great example of this would be Universal’s Frankenstein. As the decades moved forward and we hit the 60’s censorship laws had…

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  November 11, 2011

• Ode to the Unsung Slasher (Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2)

  The slasher genre is what attracted me to horror in the first place. These days, that particular sub-genre of horror has gotten some nice boosts in my mind with films Like Hatchet and the Hills Run Red, but one I especially enjoyed was Laid to Rest.   Today I’m going to tackle Chromeskull: Laid to…

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  October 1, 2011