And if Terrifier was a perfectly crafted love letter to 80s slashers, then Terrifier 2 is an 80’s horror fan’s wet dream.
So Bad, It’s Good: Horror You Shouldn’t Be Sleeping On. “Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker”
This movie is so damn dramatic, it could be a telenovela. It's a "horrornovela."
“Hunted”: Revenge Horror And The Female Rage
Let me begin by saying that I’m not an easy scare. I may have a queasy stomach but I can easily switch into special FX appreciation mode. As far as that sinking into your seat, clutching the blanket, looking behind you reaction that I think we all chase...it’s not a frequent visitor of mine. That’s... Continue Reading →
So Bad, It’s Good: Horror You Shouldn’t Be Sleeping On- “Murder Mansion”
Murder Mansion starts off like any horror film worth mentioning. That’s right, with a twenty minute chase scene set to a jazzy bass score. It’s not so much a chase scene, as it is a waste of useful exposition time to set up some of the thousands of characters in this film.
It’s Time To Wake Up: How Wes Craven changed stereotypes, reinvented the genre, and gave women something to scream for.
He didn’t want to shy away from the realism of torture and death, giving the audience way more than what they bargained for. It was that unfiltered approach that gave Wes Craven’s films something to connect to. Growing up in a strict religious household, where films along with dancing and drinking were forbidden, he knew what it was like to see life through a smoke screen, and maybe that’s what made him work to depict real life, as is, in his films.
