Category: Horror
Halloween
This is perhaps the best of all the suspense Halloween horror/slasher films one could hope to see. Although there were… read more Halloween
The AmityVille Horror
Based on a best seller novel of the same name,The AmityVille Horror, this 1979 movie stars Margot Kidder (Superman) and James Brolin. The story follows a family who purchased the home of an extreme crime scene 13 months after Ronald Joseph DeFeo Jr. killed both his parents, two brother and two sisters with a shot gun in the house.
The Serpent and the rainbow
This is another Wes Craven film, but the Serpent and the rainbow is shot with such surprising realism that you can forget at times you are watching a film and think you are watching a documentary or recreation of real life story
When a stranger calls
The movie begins with Jill Johnson played by Carol Kane babysitting for a local Dr. and his wife. After the kids are asleep and she is waiting for the parents to return, she starts to get phone calls asking her if she has checked on the children. She has heard nothing from them and figured that it is just a prank call. But the calls continue and increase in frequency so she calls the police, who discover that the calls are originating from within the home. The children were murdered shortly after Jill arrived to babysit.
Young Frankenstein
This is the story of a lecturing Dr. Frankenstein, named Frederick who is grandson to the infamous lunatic Dr. Frankenstein. (Part of the reason for making this film in black in white is to capture another epoch more realistically for 1970s audiences). Frederick, changes his name’s pronunciation in order to distance himself from his infamous relative.
Friday the 13th
The story premise is pretty simple. The hereditary owner of the summer camp decides to reopen the long closed location after years of neglect. It’s 1980 and he has advertised for some summer counselors who are willing to help him with a few repairs and set up to get the camp going
Nightmare on Elm Street
Wes Craven brought the world a Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984. Drawing from newspaper reports of tortured refuges who died in their sleep,
Dark Night of the Scarecrow
Dark Night of the Scarecrow is a low budget horror film from 1981 that is surprizingly good because of quality… read more Dark Night of the Scarecrow
Demon Seed
The 1977 movie Demon Seed has nothing to do with the occult or demons, but rather one man’s obsession with… read more Demon Seed
Night of the Living Dead
Night of the Living Dead is a low budget independent film first released in 1968, which has since become a… read more Night of the Living Dead
Shivers
David Cronenberg, now cemented as one of the greats when it comes to sci-fi horror, started his mainstream career with… read more Shivers
The Blob
What do you get when you mix a small town in Pennsylvania and a bunch of teens making out? You… read more The Blob
The Stepford Wives
A married couple and their children move to the quiet town of Stepford and everything seems perfect — perhaps far… read more The Stepford Wives
Frankenstein 1931
The classic story of the man that made monster from cadavers and electricity. This movie is pre-code and that meant… read more Frankenstein 1931