Month: September 2019

Sigh, I guess I had to return to the real world at some point. T-Fest 2019 was successful as usual, we really have this down after 15 years (and 25 shows counting the spring editions). The first movie was Hanging for Django, which proved the first of several Euro genre films we watched while…

Man, looking at the horror films for the early 2000s is depressing. All sequels and remakes (and seldom good ones--The Fog, blech). I guess I'll go with Wes Craven's Cursed, although it didn't go very well and nobody remembers it and it features (apparently) CGI werewolves. As a rule, those have not been successful.…

We continue towards lackluster days. Shawn of the Dead is brilliant (and the Dawn of the Dead remake was surprisingly good), but again, zombies are pretty generic. Far worse is the attempts to turn monsters into blockbuster material. Van Helsing? Blecch. Saw started a whole semi-genre, but I don't think Jigsaw was in it…

I guess 23 Days Later was the 'big' horror movie in 2003, but their zombies looked like everyone else's zombies. Since everyone knows I have a certain amount of affection for this film, I'll be self-indulgent and pick this.

It's the worst thing to come out of a TV until the last season of Game of Thrones, amiright? (See, I can do topical.) Happy Friday, everyone! And just a week away from meeting up at Sandy's for this year's T-Fest. I hope to see some of you there. The Ring was an unexpectedly…

Perfect timing, as my friend Matt will be showing 2001 in the beautiful Pickwick theater next Wednesday night, on a mammoth screen and with Keir Dullea making a personal appearance. Good work, Kubrick. It's nearly 20 years after your film was set and we still don't have a Howard Johnson's on the moon.

2000! Holy crow. Man, there is like nothing that came out in 2000. Final Destination is the biggie, but there's no monster there. So...pulp cover!

Sleepy Hollow was Burton's In the Mouth of Madness, the last film by a director who was my favorite for a stretch of time that I really fell in love with. If nothing else, that magnificent cameo by Christopher Lee reminded other filmmakers that he was still alive and got him a run of…

I guess Blade was the big movie that year, but I don't know, despite trying so hard I never felt their takes on vampires were all that interesting. Decent action movies, though. So I'll go with Deep Rising, a pretty fun heist-movie-turns-into-a-monster-flick.

Not as much 1997 going on in 1997, although there are fans of Event Horizon, The Relic, Anaconda, etc. Me, I'll go with Mimic. That's a pretty good movie, and the sequels were cheap but interesting, which you can't say for many horror series.