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A top 10 featuring country, folk, and jazz - Is this 2013 or 1963? I suppose the inclusion of Daft Punk and Beyonce make the modern vintage pretty clear. Against my better judgment, I’m undertaking a project to determine my top 10 albums of every year since 1960.  Instead of just picking my favorite stuff out of my collection, I intend to explore, re-visit and discover.  While I can’t promise to leave no stone unturned, I am going to go deeper than I ever have before.  Why wo

Happy Halloween! What better way to celibrate than by reading a review of a hugely popular, notoriously violent film set on the holiday! Whether you know and love this one, or this review is the closest you'd ever dare get to experiencing it, I hope you'll enjoy the final entry in 2025's 31 Movies in 31 Days (which was really 16 movies, but what are you gonna do?) There is little doubt that the most buzzed about new horror franchise of the past decade has been the Terrifier

Is it truly the season of the witch? Me and Donovan are in agreement on that one. What witch-related songs do you have on your Halloween playlist? Here are the ones on mine*: Season of the Witch - Donovan; Witches' Rave - Jeff Buckley; Witchy Woman - Eagles; I Put a Spell on You - Nina Simone; Black Magic Woman - Santana; Burn the Witch - Radiohead; Waking the Witch - Kate Bush; The Wind - PJ Harvey; Rosemary - Sierra Ferrell Despite their healthy representation in

With all of the great new horror coming out, I have to remind myself to check in on some of that sweet, eighties nonsense from time to time. This one checks all the boxes. In between the genre-defining sci-fi horror of Alien and The Thing , Roger Corman produced this far less esteemed foray into the terrors of space. If you are familiar with the Corman ouvre, you know what to expect: Unpredictablity, gratuitousness, and a tiny budget. It isn't difficult to surmise what types

Let’s see what happens when you smash together two of the most formulaic movie genres into the same film. Did I end up with hearts in my eyes, or ‘X’s? All styles of film have their conventions and tropes. They are actually really helpful for storytelling, because they grant creators a form of shorthand so they don’t have to expend as much energy establishing the rules and boundaries of their worlds. They also establish expectations, which are a prerequisite if you want to ge

If you are blessed with a local haunted house attraction in your area, might I suggest a better use of your two hours would be to go and experience the real thing? Ah yes, we've now reached the part of the marathon where a movie defies me to have a strong opinion about it. I can usually avoid this type of thing at the start of the month, because I'll just skip movies like that, but as time ticks away and the jack-o-lantern candle burns low, it becomes harder and harder to tos

It is likely that this 2023 release flew under your radar, but there is a lot of charm to this version of a familiar story set on Halloween night, 1962. Greek mythology has provided us with so many of the story archetypes that we still recycle to this day. One of the most persistent, especially in modern pop culture, is the story of Theseus and the Minotaur. If you're unaware, it involves a tradition in which a set number of young people are sent into a labyrinth to do battle

I loved Talk To Me , but can the Philippou brothers follow it up with another unconventional three-word horror movie success? I might be outside the consensus opinion on this one. I spend a lot of time around here bemoaning the lack of originality and impact from a litany of horror flicks I review. If anything can be said about Bring Her Back , its that it is both original and impactful. I kind of think I hated it, though. What I am still trying to sort out is whether I hated

I watched the first Child's Play as a pre-teen, and I don't think I've ever seen a sequel. Better late than never (he asks, with cautious optimism)? The original Child's Play was one of my earliest forays into watching horror. I would have been in middle school, and it presented a pretty silly and safe opportunity to dip my toe into the eighties slasher pool. I have fond memories of the movie, but it didn't leave a strong enough impression to inspire a re-visit even through

Director Fede Alvarez drags the Alien franchise back to its horror roots with the most frightening installment since the 1979 original. Fede Alvarez is probably the reason you are reading this review right now. I don't mean this specific review, although that is certainly accurate since it is a review of a movie he directed, but the reason that I am writing about horror movies online at all. I've chronicalled my post-high school lapse in horror fandom before, but suffice it t

In which I contemplate whether I have sentenced myself to my own personal Hell of reviewing dour, direct-to-video Hellraiser sequels for eternity. In the considerable downtime during the plot of Hellraiser VII , I allowed my mind to drift and compile a partial list of things I would rather be doing than watching this movie. Allow me to share an excerpt: ... #957 - Rewatch any of the first four Hellraiser movies #958 - Rewatch any of the Nightmare on Elm Street sequels, e

Among the weapons that Director Zach Cregger wields in his latest effort are shocking violence, mystery, and experimentation. Are they...

You know, I was already uncomfortable driving behind those big logging trucks. I didn't really need the extra level of anxiety. The...

Sinners may not be the scariest horror movie I watched this year, but it is confidently the best. Ryan Coogler's Sinners is about a lot...

I didn't expect the next Carrie , but I hoped for a reasonable facsimile of Prom Night II. Turns out I didn't even get a reasonable...

No film took up more space on the 2024 horror hype train. Let's find out if The Substance has actual substance, or if it gets by on its...

Robert Eggers recreates the 1922 horror classic with beauty and reverence. Is that enough to justify yet another retelling of this story?...

Looking back on this crop of music from the late nineties, I uncover an affinity for several albums that passed me by the first time. As...

I’ve been writing for 31 Movies in 31 Days for a decade now, and this is the first time I was scared before the movie even started. I have a complicated relationship with gore in horror movies. I grew up as a scaredy-cat, and even the hint of something gruesome was a non-starter for me until social pressures forced me into voluntary horror consumption some time around middle school. In high school, my friends and I dabbled in some of the ugliest stuff out there, like I Spit