Posts Tagged Horror
10/30/2012
To keep with the holiday season I decided to start viewing some dark fantasy films (my threshold for horror is mixxed at best. I prefer the subtler supernatural over the raw terror of a slasher film so a lot of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Halloween season is one of my favorite times of the year and by no coincidence whatsoever yields all of my favorite kinds of films. To warm up I decided to start my first of October Double Feature with two of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well for this week’s selection I probably bit off a bit more than I could chew. A friend of mine told me about the Blind Dead series by Spanish director Amando de Ossorio. Like a complete idiot, I decided to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the magic Tupperware told me I was I had to draw a vampire I was almost tempted to cheat and see if it had something better to offer. I’v already done vampires two years in a row and for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For my next selection of films for this Halloween season, I decided to do another foray of “old versus new” with yet another classic film I somehow never got around to seeing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The original 1956[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s Halloween selection I returned to the Hammer Horror films and watched the first two sequels to Christopher Lee’s Horror of Dracula. In the Brides of Dracula, we have Mariane Dannielle traveling to her new job teaching at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For the second week of my Halloween film marathon, I decided to go with the genre that I’ve been avoiding for me in the year, zombie apocalypse. I thought I’d start at the beginning, or more accurately close to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week a did an old vs new take on a perennial Halloween classic, the Cat people. The first the films is one of Val Lewton‘s films directed by Jacques Tourneur. Telling the story of Irena(Simone Simon), a Serbian immigrant[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…