31 Nights of Halloween Horror

31 Nights of Halloween Horror - Night 31 - Halloween (2018) Halloween (2018) 106 mins Dir. David Gordon Green USA/2018 We made it to the end.  We watched a lot of different movies, some bad, some good some so bad they are good.  As a refresher here is a run down of all 30 movies we watched this month. 1) Count Dracula 2) Sinister 3) The Witchmaker 4) Big Alligator River 5) Splinter 6) The Nun 7) Nightmare Castle 8) Pyewacket 9) Terrifier 10) Burial Ground 11) Mandy 12) Mom and Dad 13) Barracuda 14) Re-Animator 15) Strangers: Prey at Night 16) Symptoms 17) One Dark Night 18) DeepStar Six 19) The Bay 20) Lovely Molly 21) The Red Queen Kills Seven Times 22) Daughter of Dracula 23) Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead 24) Happy Death Day 25) Nail Gun Massacre 26) I Drink Your Blood 27) Last Shift 28) Parasite 29) Southbound 30) Dead of Night Of those I had only seen Count Dracula, Nightmare Castle, Burial Ground, Re-Animator, DeepStar Six an...

31 Nights of Halloween Horror - Night 30 - Dead of Night Dead of Night 87 mins. Dir. Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer UK/1945 We round out our anthology double feature with this classic film from 1945 which was one of the first horror anthology films with a wrap around story.  Not to be confused with the other anthology film with the same title released in 1977.  Watch this one in the Dead of Night. The wrap around story in this movie deals with an architect  arriving at a country house, once there he meets a room full of people and comes to the conclusion that he has met all these people before in one of his dreams.  As they all discuss the possibilities of this, each character reveals a situation they have been in dealing with the supernatural. The first story is about a race car driver that more or less cheats death and is then followed by death which once he sees, makes him make different choices in life leading him on a ...

31 Nights of Halloween Horror - Night 29 - Southbound Southbound 89 mins. Dir. Roxanne Benjamin, David Bruckner, Patrick Horvath, Radio Silence USA/2015 The first in our double feature of anthology films ending out this Halloween season.  First up is Southbound, an anthology where being on this road in the middle of nowhere is never a good thing. Broken up into five stories each intersecting with each other.  All taking place in a desolate area in the south west off a road in the middle of nowhere.  Our first story begins with a pair of guys on the run, from what we do not know, but something is after them and eventually finds them.  These winged creatures that float around with the torso of a skeleton and bat wings appear out of the ground and watch from a distance until the time is right to strike.  They eventually get hold of one of the guys and chase another into a motel, where our second story takes place.  In that same motel, a all...

31 Nights of Halloween Horror - Night 28 -Parasite Parasite 85 mins. Dir. Charles Band USA/1982 One may think that I only watch 31 films and discuss all of them with you.   The truth of the matter is since some of these movies I am seeing for the first time I don’t always know what to expect.   Sometimes these movies are so bad that I cannot consciously write about them and have you waste your time reading something that is so pointless it is just a waste of everyone’s time.   I would rather have you watch good movies then to have to avoid the really bad ones.   Parasite is one of those movies, so if you are indeed reading this that means I am running out of time, and this movie screwed up my schedule and I don’t have time for a make-up movie. Had I known I wouldn’t have watched Parasite for 31 Nights of Halloween Horror because it is honestly more of a sci-fi movie, than horror, but there is a creature in it and there is some gore. ...

31 Nights of Halloween Horror - Night 27 - Last Shift Last Shift 90 mins. Dir. Anthony DiBlasi USA/2014 Continuing in our Satanic hippie cult theme, we have this newer entry called Last Shift.  We are almost to the end don't quit on me now. The title of the film refers to rookie cop Jessica who is working the very last shift in a police station about to close it's doors forever in lieu of new station which has opened down the road.  Her mother begs her not to become a police officer as her father was one who was killed in the line of duty, but for whatever reason she needs to prove herself.  She gets the grand tour of the station, she just needs to answer any calls if they come in but all 911 calls should be rerouted to the new station.  A Hazmat team will becoming to pick up some evidence around 4am.  Simple enough job.  Stay awake and don't leave your post. First of the weird shit starts with Jessica hearing a knock at the door, she open...

31 Nights of Halloween Horror - Night 26 - I Drink Your Blood I Drink Your Blood 83 mins. Dir. David Durston USA/1970 One of the greatest and most bizarre stories in the annuals of horror comes from this grindhouse classic where actually no blood is drank, but we still love it none-the-less.  So in honor of a true exploitation horror classic, tonight I will Drink Your Blood. Stay with me here.  A group of satanic hippies calling themselves SaDoS (Sons and Daughters of Satan) led by Horace Bones, are performing a ritual in the woods which is spied upon by Sylvia.  Upon detection she is cut up and presumably raped by a couple of the cult members.  As fate would have it the hippie cult's van breaks down so they have to shack up in a run down practically abandoned town that is waiting to be demolished once the local dam is finished.  Sylvia lives there with her little brother, Pete and veterinarian grandfather.  Far as we can tell the only other ...

31 Nights of Halloween Horror - Night 25 - Nail Gun Massacre Nail Gun Massacre 85 minutes Dir. Terry Lofton USA/1985 If you think you need a chain saw to have a massacre, think again.  Sometimes all you need is a nail gun.  And I recommend putting a few in your head as you sit down to this tools gone wrong flick. Movie opens to a girl getting gang raped by a bunch of construction workers.  Next scene one of the constructions workers is at his shack of a home yelling at his fat ugly wife who is hanging up laundry outside.  Up sneaks someone in a camouflage outfit wearing a black motorcycle helmet covered in black tape, carrying an air tank on his back and holding a nail gun.  End result, everyone ends up full of nails.  Next scene, gratuitous nudity shot of chick with fake tits trying to have morning sex in bed with her man.  He tells her he promised a friend he would help cut down trees and leaves.  Note to self, men are idiots in...

31 Nights of Halloween Horror - Night 24 - Happy Death Day Happy Death Day 96 mins. Dir. Christopher Landon USA/2017 I remember seeing this trailer last year and thinking, wow this looks stupid and boring.  But then positive reviews started coming in.  Huh, I am surprised to hear this is good, I guess I will check it out.  So I did and now you must suffer too. "Tree" short for Theresa, our main character, she is a cunt.  She wakes up in some guy named Carter's dorm room.  Tree is a bitch to him and leaves, walks back to her dorm, is a bitch on the way and a bitch to her frat mates including her roommate who tries to give her a cup cake for her birthday.  There is a party later that night she heads out to and is murdered by a man wearing a baby mask that is a mascot for the college.  Upon her death she wakes up back in Carter's dorm room and the cycle begins again. Monotony ensues as we watch this scenario happen over and over again wit...

31 Nights of Halloween Horror - Night 23 - Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead Mimesis 95 mins. Dir. Douglas Schulze USA/2011 Never heard of this one before, but it has a really interesting premise.  And if you are wondering what the word Mimesis means as I was?  Google defines it as - representation or imitation of the real world in art and literature. the deliberate imitation of the behavior of one group of people by another as a factor in social change. So with this unique take on a classic film, we start off at a horror convention where fan fave Sid Haig (who plays a different character in this movie, not himself) is giving a talk about life imitating art and does violence in movies cause violence in real life.  An age old conversation, but a set up for the premise of the film.  Our two attendees Russell (a genre fan) and Duane (a skeptic just in it for the chicks) are having lunch at a cafeteria or something where the convention i...

31 Nights of Halloween Horror - Night 22 - Daughter of Dracula Daughter of Dracula 87 mins. Dir. Jess Franco France/1972 If you thought Count Dracula was the only Dracula movie by Jess Franco that we would be watching this month you would be wrong, but wish you were right. Franco is so hit or miss, after our last entry with him that kicked off our season with Count Dracula, hopes were high that we may have another winner. But with Franco you never know what you are going to get, sometimes there are moments of clarity and brilliance and sometimes you are left scratching your head.  Daughter of Dracula kicks off with stellar location shots, a brief narration about Dracula and a stalking scene of a women attacked in her bath before we get to unfold this tale of vampirism.  Baroness Karlstein is on her deathbed, she summons for her granddaughter Luisa, to tell her of a family secret before she passes.  The family is cursed and the very first Baron Karlstein ...