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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.
SLASHER MONTH: Death Valley, Prom Night II, and More!
DEATH VALLEY (1982) In an era when Hollywood was trying to cash in on the slasher boom, Universal released this gem about an 8-year-old boy (Billingsley, A Christmas Story) who, while on vacation with his divorced mother (Hicks) and her…
SLASHER MONTH: Cold Prey II, New Year’s Evil, and More!
COLD PREY II (2008) Good sequel to the Norwegian original picks up immediately where the first movie left off with final girl Jannicke (Berdal) being transported to a nearby hospital, along with the body of the pick-ax swinging mountain man…
End of the Year: ANGST, EFFECTS, and GROTESQUE
Angst (1983) An artsy German slasher about an unhinged madman (Erwin Leder) who’s released from prison and immediately goes about terrorizing a family at a remote country estate. There’s way too much exposition involved in the killer’s backstory, with endless,…
Christmas Horror Movie Roundup
Happy Holidays! With the Christmas season upon us, I decided to write about a myriad of holiday horror flicks that I usually watch (or avoid) every year. In order, from my favorite to least favorite, here is a list of…
Mini-Reviews: PLEDGE NIGHT, SILENT NIGHT, and THINNER
Pledge Night (1990) During hell week a frat house is stalked by the murderous spirit of a ’60s hippie who was accidentally killed during a frat prank years earlier. A surprisingly fun little flick, this start off as an Animal…
VERSUS – Black Christmas ’74
Welcome to a new feature on Matt’s Horror Addiction: VERSUS. Versus takes one film and presents two opposing opinions in head-to-head reviews with my friend and horror movie aficionado, Frank Pittarese. We’ll explain why we loved and hated the same…
Mini-Reviews: CORRUPTION, NIGHT TERROR, and THE THAW
Corruption (1968) When a renowned surgeon’s (Peter Cushing) skin grafting experiments fail on his self-centered fiancee’s (Sue Lloyd) burnt face he’s pressured into using “fresher” test subjects by murdering random women and stealing their heads. A surprisingly violent rip-off of…
Mini-Reviews: ARE YOU IN THE HOUSE ALONE, DARK MOUNTAIN, and THE EMPTY MAN
Are You in the House Alone? (1978) A teenage girl (Kathleen Beller) begins receiving threatening notes and phone calls from a stalker after she starts dating the popular guy in school. When her concerns are dismissed by friends and teachers…
Mini-Reviews: DEMENTED, THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT, and X-RAY
Demented (1980) After suffering a traumatic sexual attack by four men, the mental health of a housewife (Sallee Young, Home Sweet Home) downward spirals until a break-in at her house causes her to snap and go on a killing spree.…
Mini-Reviews: HIDE AND GO SHRIEK, LAST NIGHT IN SOHO, MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, and SCALPS
Hide and Go Shriek (1988) A group of high school friends celebrating graduation sneak into a furniture store to party and have sex but are interrupted by a killer in this enjoyably cheesy slasher. The movie is filled with stock…