The October Project, Day 13: The City of the Dead (1960)

I honestly don’t remember why exactly I picked this one up. Solid reviews, probably–that tends to drive the point between skipping and picking up. I don’t think I realized it was a Christopher Lee vehicle before I saw his name in the credits, though. It has the unique ability to have woven itself into a […]

The October Project, Day “12”: House of the Damned (1963)

I realized entirely too late that the movie runtimes of previous decades meant that my “Project” was not so completely off-set by my new job’s scheduling as I thought. House of the Damned happens to prove that most firmly: its runtime is a whopping 63 minutes. I squeaked it in before work yesterday, and have a […]

The October Project, Day 11: White Noise (2005)

Horror’s a difficult genre to deal with properly, in terms of sifting through the stuff to separate wheat from chaff and dross from gold. Of course, one of the more difficult things is dealing with the complete and total (absence of) shock that is the non-binary nature of this process. There are few (if any) […]

The October Project, Day 10: The Legacy (1978)

I feel as though it says something when a movie’s trailer likes to linger–repeatedly, no less!–on the film’s poster. It’s kind of an odd thing to do, though in this case I can’t blame them too much–it’s a pretty great (if surreal and confusing) poster. Maggie Walsh (Katharine Ross) and Pete Danner (Sam Elliott) are called […]

The October Project, Day 9: The Woods (2006)

I only know the name Lucky McKee from his episode of Masters of Horror, if I’m not mistaken. A horror-loving friend may (ahem) have mentioned May to me (or an issue of Fango or something), but nothing really settled. The Woods got iffy reviews, but I saw it was his, combined that with the vague ruminations on his reputation that […]

The October Project, Day 8: Child’s Play (1988)

I watched this before at some point, but still can’t figure out when exactly–it was this DVD, but it could’ve been any time in the last six years as a result (yes, I’ve got a database of purchase dates…). Still, I decided to go with that, since this is functioning as a “fill-in” for the […]

The October Project, Day 7: Brainscan (1994)

First off: this one was delayed by, well, a four-hour drive to a concert and a four-hour drive back. Plus, it’s Wednesday, which meant endless socializing over new comic books. Still, I said “per day”, not on day, and I am still in a good place to catch up. One more Coheed and Cambria concert […]

The October Project, Day 6: 976-EVIL (1988)

My instinct is to write, “I don’t know why, but…”, which is wrong, because I know exactly why. In my head, this movie is strongly associated with Wes Craven. Now, that’s not because he directed it. Or wrote it. Or produced it. Or cameoed in it. It’s because Robert Englund directed it–one of two movies he’s […]

The October Project: Week 1

As a part of my love of horror and the fact that it’s Halloween, largely accepted in Western culture (or at least American) as the best time for horror, I’m watching a horror movie per day in the month. So far, it has been thoroughly successful, thankfully, though we’ll see how it gets once work […]