“I think we just picked up Dracula.” Horror fans consider Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) one of the most horrific movies to splatter across a movie screen. Critics tend to take a negative view, calling Texas Chainsaw Massacre a depraved, valueless monstrosity, a movie which never should have seen the light of day. […]
“I’ve seen enough horror movies to know any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.” The Friday the 13th series gets a reboot in Friday the 13th Part 6. In 1984, director Joseph Zito made a curious decision to kill Jason Vorhees in Friday the 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter. Actually, he didn’t just […]
“If you ask me, though, nature sucks.” When director Rob Schmidt brought Wrong Turn (2003) to the screen, horror fans rejoiced over the movie’s potential to return the genre to the gory 1980s. All the pieces seemed to be in place – inbred, murderous cannibals, teens or twenty-somethings lost in the woods, and unapologetic horror […]
“It’s your oven, but it ain’t my bun ya got bakin’ in there, huh? See ya.” Based on the Stephen King novel, Cycle of the Werewolf, Silver Bullet (1985) tells the story of tiny Tarker’s Mills and its nightmarish summer. A series of gruesome murders throws the town into a panic, with many of the […]
“I won’t let anyone come between us any more” – Haute Tension Be prepared to be blown away. Alexandre Aja’s Haute Tension (2003), which translates in English to High Tension, is a European slasher from the post-Scream era. Unlike the watered-down self-aware horror that followed in Scream’s footsteps, Haute Tension ran screaming back to the […]
“Now, what could have done this?” “Something huge, like an elephant!” I’ll bet that just today you were saying, “What I really want to see is a movie where a Bigfoot with psychic powers grabs an axe and runs amok.” You’re welcome. Night of the Demon (1980) is easily one of the most bizarre relics […]
“Is this your wife? What a lovely throat.” The first, and arguably best, vampire horror movie ever made is F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922). The silent movie, based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel, starred Max Schreck as one of the most frightening vampires to ever grace the screen. In fact, Nosferatu was almost the first Dracula […]