Yeah it’s a fad cash-in. But there’s something about this movie that goes beyond the satanic panic theatrics and the evils of heavy metal album art. Something barely audible underneath all that noise, but it’s there, and it still resonates. You only need to turn the clock backwards to hear it. I was that kind … Read more
It was never meant to be the odd one out. John Carpenter and Debra Hill had a plan – turn Halloween into an anthology series, telling a different kind of horror story with each new film. But audiences at the time weren’t having it. They wanted “The Shape” coming home yet again to stalk the … Read more
Every September for thirty years, I’ve kicked off Halloween season the same way: Tim Burton’s film, the Rhino “Look Back in Angora” documentary by the late, great Ted Newsom, then a marathon of Edward D. Wood Jr’s actual movies. The cardboard tombstones, saucers on strings, Bela Lugosi stumbling through barely coherent stream-of-consciousness dialogue… it’s a … Read more
Horror, Humanity, and Mid-90s Morality I love horror anthologies, it’s easily one of the best go-to genres for a late night Halloween spook-a-thon. And while the 90s experienced a bit of a drought, one the better ones to come out of the decade was Rusty Cundieff’s Tales from the Hood. See, I’m one of those … Read more