31 Nights of Halloween Horror

This is it, we made it to the end.  Here is a recap of what we have watched. 1) The Wizard of Gore - HG Lewis remake 2) Wakewood - Hammer makes a come back 3) The Banana Splits Movie - Piece of shit 4) 30 Days of Night - Vampires in Alaska 5) Tonight She Comes - WTF and a lot of blood 6) Beyond the Darkness - D'Amato classic 7) Abominable - Bigfoot madness 8) Castle of the Walking Dead - Gothic horror at its finest 9) The Rift - Sea Monsters galore 10) Shrew's Nest - Recommended 11) Dead & Breakfast - Horror comedy 12) Itsy Bitsy - Giant Spider 13) Hiruko the Goblin - Japanese insanity 14) Fragile - Haunted children's hospital, recommended 15) 3 From Hell - New Rob Zombie 16) Jungle Holocaust - Italian Cannibals 17) The Ghost - Barbara Steele classic 18) The Monster Club - Horror anthology 19) Blood Fest - Shit fest 20) The Nightshifter - Recommended 21) Opera - Argento classic 22) Satan's Slaves - Recommended 23) Return of the Evil Dead - Se...

Wer 89 mins Dir. William Brent Bell 2013/USA Werewolf movies are one of the harder monster movies to portray well.   You have your American classics like Universal’s Wolfman, Howling, American Werewolf, and of course you have Paul Naschy’s tremendous out pouring of his portrayal of the tortured werewolf Waldemar Daninsky.   Add Dog Soldiers, Ginger Snaps and a few others sprinkled here and there, but the werewolf genre hasn’t had any strong contenders in probably almost 15 years.   Until along comes Wer. Is Wer great because there hasn’t been any other good werewolf movies in a long time or is it just a good movie all around?  Probably a little of both.   It certainly is not without its faults, predictability and CGI blood splatter being its two strongest.   But it does have a lot of good going for it as well, as this one, while like I said can be predictable also spins an original tale on the lycanthropy genre. ...

Don’t Leave Home 86 mins Dir. Michael Tully 2018/USA As we get close to the end of the month, we are going to get a little highbrow and watch one of those fancy art films that are a slow burn with a twist ending.   The title of this one says it all.   Don’t Leave Home. Our story open with a priest who by hanging himself opens the gates of hell.   Ha Ha just kidding, a little Fulci joke there.   No this is a much different movie.  It opens In Ireland with a priest painting the picture of a little girl praying in front of a virgin mary statue out in a garden.   Soon after, the little girl goes missing.   The strange thing is though, the picture of her in the painting also goes missing, like she was never painted in it. Fast forward to the present day, Melanie an artist in the US is making a series of dioramas for an art show she is having, the theme is unexplained missing people in Ireland.   Apparently it is...

Them! 94 mins. Dir. Gordon Douglas 1954/USA Think ants are harmless?   Think again.   You may consider them innocent hard-working creatures of the insect world but tell that to the victims of Empire of the Ants, Phase IV and the one that started it all, Them! Oh, the deserts of New Mexico and Atomic Radiation, without thee we would be missing out on countless giant creature movies.   These two have combined countless times to give us overgrown insects and animals throughout the 50s and beyond.  But Them!   A movie about irradiated giant ants, is what really kicked off the giant bug invasion of the 50s and still remains as one of the best. A little girl is found wandering the desert by the police.   She is in a catatonic state and does not speak or react.   In trying to find where she came from, they find a vacationing camping trailer that has been destroyed and a general store as well nearby.   Soon the culpri...