Don’t you hate when you’re reading a food blog and you’re all hangry and feeling some kinda way, and you have to scroll down like 80 times in order to get to the goddamn recipe? Yeah, me too. Here’s a list of albums I liked this year. I deem them “the best,” but really they’re…
Deciding to recon almost an entire franchise is a risky move, but that’s exactly what Blumhouse Productions did when it greenlit a brand new installment of a 40 year old series: Halloween. The stars seemed to align for Blumhouse: an able director was on board (Stronger‘s David Gordon Green) and helping Green with the script…
In the process of taking notes for this post, I wrote down the following quote spoken by one of Halloween: Resurrection‘s main characters: “Trick or treat…motherfucker!” If that’s not enough to make you go hmmmm, you should know that line is spoken by none other than Busta Rhymes. Because Halloween: Resurrection is trash. It’s not all…
In 1978, John Carpenter’s Halloween changed of face of horror forever, slashing box office records with its low-budget approach and white-masked boogeyman. Thanks to a story written by Carpenter and Debra Hill, horror was relocated from its usual cemetery and haunted house-type settings to our very own suburban doorsteps as Michael Myers, a recently escaped…
There’s something about home invasion movies that uproots our primal sense of security. Our homes are our fortresses and when those safe zones are threatened, nothing is more unsettling. When Bryan Bertino’s The Strangers hit theaters in 2008, it delivered a dreadful tale about an on-the-rocks couple whose lives were tormented by three psychopaths who invaded their homefront. It was…
Last year, I counted down the Friday the 13th series, starting from the worst and getting down to the nitty gritty – my fave – Friday the 13th Part 3. This year, I’m taking on the Boogey Man himself: Mr. Michael Myers. This time around, I’m excluding remakes (Sorry, Zombie) while also tossing that third…