Posts by Ken Begg

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…

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?