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Welcome to my website! If you’re visiting, you’re most likely a horror movie fanatic like myself. I became obsessed with horror movies around the age of two when my mother took me to the local video store in North Reading, MA. After accidentally stopping in front of the forbidden “Horror” section, I was immediately hypnotized by all the gloriously scary VHS covers.
Mini-Reviews: TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE ’74 and ’22
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974) d: Tobe Hooper. c: Marilyn Burns, Gunnar Hansen, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, Paul A. Partain, Allen Danziger. Perhaps the perfect American horror film, this baby not only took the slasher movie to terrifying new levels…
SPOTLIGHT: The FINAL DESTINATION Series
FINAL DESTINATION (2000) d: James Wong. c: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristin Cloke, Seann William Scott, Chad Donella, Tony Todd. A first-rate thrill ride from beginning to end, this giddy, grim chiller pits a group of survivors of…
SCI-FI/FANTASY MONTH: Alien vs. Predator, John Dies at the End, The Omega Man, and Videodrome
ALIEN VS. PREDATOR (2004) d: Paul W. S. Anderson. c: Sanaa Lathan, Lance Henriksen, Raoul Bova, Ewen Bremner, Colin Salmon, Tommy Flanagan. This unabashedly fun merging of two of the biggest sci-fi/horror franchises of the ’80s has a group of…
SCI-FI/FANTASY MONTH: Altered States, Blade, Lord of Illusions, and The McPherson Tape
ALTERED STATES (1980) d: Ken Russell. c: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid. A brilliant scientist (Hurt), obsessed with accessing the brain’s unexplored subconscious, experiments with hallucinogens and taps into a metaphysical reality, eventually physically devolving back to…
SCI-FI/FANTASY MONTH: Aliens: Zone of Silence, Coherence, The Fly ’58, and Lamb
ALIENS: ZONE OF SILENCE (2017) d: Andy Fowler. c: Sarah Hester, Peter Gesswein, Jed Maheu. A young woman (Hester) ventures into a section of Mexican desert known as the “Zone of Silence,” a UFO hotspot where her brother was last…
SLASHER MONTH: Destroyer, Final Exam, Hatchet, and Silent Madness!
DESTROYER (1988) d: Robert Kirk. c: Anthony Perkins, Deborah Foreman, Clayton Rohner, Lyle Alzado, Tobias Anderson, Lannie Garrett. A muscle-bound mass murderer (Alzado), executed 18 months earlier, seemingly comes back from the dead and stalks a group of filmmakers making…
SUNDANCE 22: Horror Movie Round-Up
FRESH d: Mimi Cave. c: Sebastian Stan, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jojo T. Gibbs, Charlotte Le Bon, Andrea Bang. Online dating can be a drag, especially for Noa (Edgar-Jones), a bright, likable young woman who’s about to give up on romance until…
REVIEWS: Gags the Clown, Jade, The Most Dangerous Game, and Repossessed
GAGS THE CLOWN (2018) d: Adam Krause. c: Lauren Ashley Carter, Aaron Christensen, Evan Gamble, Tracy Perez. A horror-comedy that’s neither scary nor funny, this desperately wants to be both a parody of fake news and the found footage subgenre…
SLASHER Spotlight: SCREAM 1-4
SCREAM (1996) d: Wes Craven. c: Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Matthew Lillard, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan, Jamie Kennedy, Drew Barrymore. Scream is the movie that revived the horror genre at a time when it had stalled with endless…
REVIEWS: American Gothic, Monsieur Verdoux, and Witchfinder General
AMERICAN GOTHIC (1987) When their propeller plane is forced to make an emergency landing, a group of friends find themselves stranded on a remote island in the pacific northwest that’s home to a religious zealot (Steiger), his wife (De Carlo),…