The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

When I saw Pitch Black in theatres 20 years ago, I liked Riddick and Vin Diesel well enough to be sure, but I was mostly into it on the grounds of those arrow-headed aliens. I mean, that’s what led to sequels in the Alien franchise, right? We followed Ripley, but it was about the creature: […]

Colour Out of Space (2019)

I still haven’t seen Hardware. I watched Dust Devil 15 years ago¹, and Island of Dr. Moreau on TV likely literal decades ago. I’ve seen handfuls of the Lovecraft adaptations out in the world, with From Beyond and Re-Animator as well as Gordon’s Masters of Horror episode (“Dreams in the Witch House”), and of course […]

La chiesa [The Church] (1989)

As a Goblin fan of some decades now (you can find me in college photos wearing a Goblin shirt one of my best friends gave me randomly almost 20 years ago), I’ve had the “half-Goblin” La Chiesa soundtrack in some form for a long time. It was one of the last I ended up acquiring […]

Paura nella città dei morti viventi (lit. Fear in the City of the Living Dead) [City of the Living Dead aka The Gates of Hell] (1980)

I bought the Fulci triple feature Blue Underground released a while ago, then picked up this, Scorpion Releasing’s The Gates of Hell (the same film with a different English title) when it was released, as I fully intended to watch the film (of course?!). I’d come into Fulci via Zombi 2, and only later saw […]

Viskningar och rop (lit. Whispers and Cries) [Cries and Whispers] (1972)

I picked up Criterion’s Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema years ago, but I’d yet to watch a single Bergman film.¹ Until today, I still hadn’t. I mean, I bought a number of them over time, actually. I fully intended to, but given my closest exposure was basically SCTV’s parody, “Whisper of the Wolf” (which some have said […]

Crazy Heart (2009)

I’ve got a weird, tangential sort of relationship with country music. I’ve got a friend who’s been making country music for decades (we mostly talk about horror and cult movies as well as punk and post punk music, if you can believe that). I’ve got some affection for the older stuff, and for the “alternative” […]

Crimson Peak (2015)

This one completely slipped past me. After being grumpy about the loss of El Laberinto del Fauno for Best Picture years ago, I weirdly lost track of Guillermo del Toro. I saw Pacific Rim and Hellboy II: The Golden Army, but missed everything after in the theatres. I barely even knew this one existed, and […]

Night of the Demon (1957) [Pre-Release/Long Version]

The cover of Carlos Clarens’s An Illustrated History of the Horror Film is ingrained upon my brain: it’s the lone horror film book that sat on my father’s shelf of movie books in my childhood home. I had no earthly idea what the horned, open-mouthed creature was or where it came from, but at some […]

The China Syndrome (1979)

One of the many films I’ve owned for years, replacing a DVD with a Blu-ray before I’d ever even seen it, I wasn’t entirely sure what it was about, just that it was well-regarded. Indeed, I’ve also had a bunch of confused internal memories of “China <something>” from television in my youth (presumably being China […]

Cujo (1983)

At ten-to-twelve (ish) years of age, I took up reading horror. I read a decent number of Stephen King books, half robotically, because that’s what you do when you’re reading horror books in the mid-90s. Somewhere in the middle of The Stand, I realized I could not give two shits what was going on at […]