Oct 29
People in the 70s did filmmaking so differently. Even the horror movies (the good ones) took their time telling the story. They didn’t rely on many camera tricks and so forth. Such is the case for director William Friedkin’s THE EXORCIST. If it was filmed today, I think all the focus would have been on Linda …
Oct 29
Sandra Bullock and Viggo Mortensen star in a zombie like horror film shot in London and…. oh, wait, that’s 28 Days. Not a horror film, but some might say it was horrific. No, today’s Scream-A-Day actually happens 28 DAYS LATER, where a super-rabbies like virus brakes out into London and causes mass chaos and death. The few survivors …
Oct 27
What can you say about director John Carpenter except that he must have had tons of crazy ideas in his head back in the 80s. As with most filmmakers, Carpenter loved all kinds of storytelling growing up. Obviously, horror, fantasy and sci-fi attracted him the most. After the success of HALLOWEEN, Carpenter delved deeper …
Oct 27
Tales from the Dark Side, Tales from the Crypt, Tales from the… HOOD? Yes, it’s the horror that “takes you to the Outer Limits of the Inner City” as writer / director Rusty Cundieff and writer Darin Scott gives us four scary shorts centered on characters of the Afro persuasion. Each tale was a bit more moralistic than …
Oct 25
This outrageous 72′ film was more action comedy than horror. But seeing a famous former African-American Linebacker running around with an old caucasian dude’s head attached to his shoulders is horror enough. Ray Milland played a racist doctor who was dying of a disease, but wanted to live. Roosevelt ‘Rosey’ Grier played a convict on death row …
Oct 23
We are going back to the small screen in your living room again. But we’re also going back to 1990, when ABC broadcast a miniseries for the first time based on Stephen King’s epic horror novel – IT. I remember ‘IT’ was a huge television event. It was especially big because Richard Thomas was starring in it …
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