Happy Saturday. Beware the Squonk. (If anyone who sees this currently lives, or has lived, in Pennsylvania: is this really a thing? Inquiring minds dearly want to know.)
The Blackening is a goofy horror comedy that is also pretty damn clever. Black stereotypes and horror tropes are thrown around so much here that you really have to pay close attention if you want to try to catch all the references.The film's great strength lies in these sharp dialogue fireworks. All cast members deliver those lines with perfection. The result is an entertaining mix of social commentary and slasher horror.
October Movie #4: Night of the Demons (Joe Bob Jamboree)
Ten "teenagers" go into a haunted house to party on Halloween, and considerably fewer come out. An 80's classic. Sexy #goth Bauhaus dancing. Enough Aquanet to ignite a city block. Linnea Quigley performing unconscionable lipstick violations. Great practical effects. Boils, pustulences, claws, gore and grime. Sure, the story is awful, but who cares when it's this weird and fun? #okgoreberfest#MutantFam#HorrorFam#horror#31DaysofHalloween
HOW TO MAKE $$ IN HORROR:
Five Nights at Freddy's. Blumhouse sold the streaming rights and made back its entire budget before the film was even released.
HOW NOT TO MAKE $$ IN HORROR:
Exorcist: Believer, the first film in an ambitious planned horror trilogy, is being read last rites by critics after Universal shelled out $400 million for the rights alone.
Hey, does anyone know of any good books on Hammer Studios, particularly their gothic horror movies? I’m looking for in-depth material on the studio, the films, the actors… need not be comprehensive, but I’m not interested in simply a bunch of film synopses. Other than the autobiographies of Cushing and Lee I’m not really finding anything available that looks good. #horror#Books#horrormovies#Hammerhorror#bookstodon#HorrorFam#HorrorBooks#Dracula#Frankenstein#Gothic#gothichorror
From Michael Chaves, director of the worst entry in the ConjurVerse (The Curse of La Llorona).
Thanks to The Nun II he’s now the director of the worst and second worst entry in the ConjurVerse. Yay?
The #movie has no idea what to do with its titular character as Valak is shoehorned into the same repetitive scare just to wake the audience up from really dark and droning dialogue scenes.
If you want actual frights that don’t feel like an afterthought, this Nun has next to none.