A look into Justin Long's horror career
A shallow dive into Justin Long's career in horror movies. Making an overall argument that Justin Long is a horror icon after watching...
Jan 27, 2023
Franchise Marathon No. 2: The Purge (Est. 2013)
In an unexpected deviation from normalcy The Purge goes from mid-level mediocre 2010’s horror one-off to full franchise with five movies...
Sep 27, 2022
Scream 5 (2022)
The revival of the Scream franchise 11 years after the last installment feels like a confirmation that a new era of horror has arrived and solidified itself into the horror ecosystem. Modern horror tropes take center stage as a new group of teens in Woodsboro face a new Ghostface copycat killer. The 5th installment simply titled Scream (2022) is the first in the series not directed by Wes Craven who passed away in 2015.
Apr 29, 2022
Better Watch Out (2016)
When it comes to Better Watch Out, the 2016 Christmas film directed by Chris Peckover, I didn’t plan on being fully engaged when we put this movie on. It was more of a random choice from a list of holiday movies but I was pleasantly surprised how engaging the seemingly obvious plot becomes. I went in assuming Better Watch Out would be a typical babysitter horror film but sooner than I anticipated this anticipation was met with an outcome I didn't quite predict.
Dec 21, 2021
Black Christmas (1974), (2006), and (2019)
Though the horror genre isn’t typically associated with Christmas I feel there are inherently sinister elements of the season that fit perfectly with horror. I'm a huge fan of both horror and Christmas and right after Halloween passes I look forward the holiday season with a mixture of Christmas-themed horror mixed in. Though the 3 Black Christmas movies aren't considered a series or franchise at least one of the 3 renditions typically makes any Christmas horror list.
Dec 9, 2021
Halloween Kills (2021)
The Halloween franchise strikes again with the next installment, Halloween Kills (2021) directed by David Gordon Green, featuring the Halloween queen herself, Jamie Lee Curtis returning as Laurie Strode. More than one time during this slasher flick I found myself screaming at the screen “WHY?!” when characters made decisions that led to Michael Myers adding another victim to his list of kills.
Oct 24, 2021
Saw (2004)
The Saw franchise began as a single movie simply title Saw that hit theaters in 2004 costing less than $1.2 million to make with a concept that came about due to limited resources available to the creators. As James Wan’s directorial debut the success of Saw is apparent in the numbers, generating roughly $108 million at the worldwide box office with 54% of that being domestic.
Sep 19, 2021
Malignant (2021)
Let me start by saying I left this movie with more questions than answers, confused about what I'd just watched. I laughed more than I cowered and I yelled obscenities at the TV more than once because nothing about it made sense to me. The whole time I felt like the direction of the story was being chosen by a Magic 8 Ball rather than a coordinated effort to craft a horror story about a malignancy.
Sep 19, 2021
Candyman (2021)
The movie Candyman 2021 delivers on the promises that the trailer makes, particularly if you're going in not expecting the previous movies to be entirely intertwined in this installment. In the original Candyman that came out in 1992 Tony Todd portrays a fictional but vengeful spirit that kills people who speak his name 5 times into a mirror. Much of the first movie doesn’t pertain to the modern remake & instead takes the legend and develops it into a narrative fit for the ti
Sep 11, 2021
