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I wanted to close out this Mad As Hell Halloween month with an article about one of my favorite accoutrements of horror film villains: the mask. These iconic items are sported by the many deranged film psycho killers and have become symbols of dread. In effect, when we see them, we know exactly who they represent and what they’re used for. What is the real reason killers wear masks in [read...] 
In the world of horror cinema the werewolf subgenre doesn’t contain a ton of titles as compared to say films featuring vampires. Some of the most well known films would include: WEREWOLF OF LONDON (1935), THE WOLF MAN (1941), I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF (1957), WEREWOLVES ON WHEELS (1971), THE HOWLING (1981), AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981), SILVER BULLET (1985) and TEEN WOLF (1985). One film that I think [read...] 
The Cabin in the Woods is probably the most recent film to come out that will be part of this special series of horror reviews. I just watched it and was very surprised. I knew nothing about the movie before seeing it, other than the fact that it was written by Joss Whedon and that it had gotten pretty good reviews. I’m really glad that I knew nothing about the [read...] 
If Sam Raimi failed to properly mesh campy humor with horror in EVIL DEAD 2 (1987), he more than gets it right with 2009’s superb horror outing Drag Me To Hell (2009). It was nice to see Raimi return to horror, a genre he happens to do quite well, after his trio of big budget Spider-Man films that seemed to be wearing out by the third installment. Scaled back and [read...] 
Following his role in J. Lee Thompson’s 1962 psychological thriller Cape Fear actor Gregory Peck was in Robert Mulligan’s classic drama TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1963, USA). In that film, Peck played a small town southern lawyer who represents a black man in a controversial court case. He was brilliant as the gentle loving father and upstanding public servant who evoked American historical figures like Abraham Lincoln and it was [read...] 
In my ‘Time of The Season’ post I expressed a little of my love for horror movies that also contain humor and that gave me the idea to write a bit more about them. This combination of conflicting reactions could be described by something Director Alfred Hitchcock once said: [paraphrased] about the sight of a man who slips on a banana peel and hits his head and bleeds all over. [read...] 
We’ve all seen movies that feature deranged monsters, ghastly ghouls and inhuman freaks but there are other kinds of fiendish characters that may be the most frightening of all. The reason is because they’re around us everywhere in society, screaming and complaining, breaking things in your house, having accidents in their pants, and drooling in their food. No I’m not talking about your grandparents, these are the kids who kill! [read...] 
Director Ti West’s The House of the Devil, a fussy tribute to 1980’s horror films, would have seemed right at home in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s GRINDHOUSE (2007). Perhaps Grindhouse was supposed to be a triple feature and this is a long lost entry?! From the retro opening credits to the coarse camerawork, all the film needed was some digital scratches added in and this could have been a [read...] 
Well furious film fans it’s October once again, the leaves are falling and the weather is getting a bit colder. If you’re a film geek it’s the month that enthusiasts of the horror genre will be using as an excuse to indulge in their love for those types of movies by doing weekly marathons and blogathons. Personally speaking, horror films were the earliest kinds I really got into and I [read...] 
Artist James O’Barr’s The Crow was originally a series of indie comics that were published in the late 80s and later turned into a comprehensive graphic novel. It told the tale of Eric Draven, a Detroit based rock musician who is murdered along with his fiancee Shelly on Devil’s Night. A year later Eric rises from the grave to seek vengeance on the criminals who were responsible for their deaths. [read...] |
    
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