Month: August 2019

There were better horror movies made that year (Army of Darkness), but this guy stuck around a surprisingly long time.

This is a flawed but very interesting film, followed by a couple of flawed but interesting sequels. I briefly (for me) wrote up my thoughts on the first couple of films in my very old, pre-site Halloween Flicks compendium, which I am now realizing isn't posted here. I should probably repost that. There's a…

Man, pretty much everything was sequels back in 1991. This, however, was RIGHT in my wheelhouse. They eventually made a sequel to this, too...the first sequel movie HBO had ever made...and completely screwed it up by recasting Ward with Dennis Hopper. (????) Also it was a whole McCarthy thing which BORING. And moving the…

This was a no-brainer. 1990 wasn't a great year for horror/monster movies, but we did get this classic. Hard to believe that it (and Darkman) are nearly 30 years old now. Even none of the sequels or TV show embarrass themselves, although as the beasties got more evolved (and CG) I tended to find…

Ah, early Tim Burton. Man, this was a fun movie.

Is Pinhead the last movie monster to really enter the pantheon?

Yeah, what he said. Here's a great monster from 1986. One of the last great screen musicals, and a tremendous beastie.

Happy (?) Monday, everyone!

Yes, that certainly lives up to yesterday's poster.