Year: 2019

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.

1996 was actually a pretty good year for horror movies, especially by big time directors. The most iconic horror film that year was Wes Craven's Scream (a franchise still being pimped, of course), but Ghostface isn't really a monster per se. There was also From Dusk to Dawn, written by and co-starring Tarantino. The…

It was hard not to go with Mel Brooks' classic Dracula Dead and Loving It, but I guess I'll opt for John Carpenter's last great film, In the Mouth of Madness. Although it was a pastiche, it really kicked off a chain of good to great Lovecraft films. I really love this film a…

With the '90s we've definitely hit the ongoing era of remakes and sequels. In fact, horror movies were ahead of the curve on that, given how many of them are low budget and direct to video (streaming now, I guess.) Speaking of horror, back to work today! Oh, well, we still have a short…