Reviews

Reviews, anecdotes, and the like related to Halloween, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, or the bizarre.

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Can’t Avoid it Any Longer: The Friday the 13th Movies Get Ranked

If you’ve been following my posts here on Halloween Love over the last couple of months you will have probably noticed I’m a bit of a Friday The 13th nut. I love Freddy and Michael as much as the next guy but when it comes to the Horror Icons Jason is my main man. Over

[Interviews]

Elephant in the Room — Christine Elise McCarthy

Elephant in the Room is a series of interviews with people made famous by their roles in horror movies. But we’re not going to talk about that. Nope. We’re not going to mention those horror movies. We’re going to take a slight departure from asking the typical questions and instead delve into what their lives

[Reviews]

Ghostwatch 1992: A Very British Controversy

First of all let’s get the details out of the way, what was Ghostwatch? Well it was a BBC drama that aired on Halloween night 1992. It was produced and presented to the viewing public in such a way as to make it look like a ‘live’ factual programme, basically a serious investigation of a

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My Week of Horror: The Exorcist 3, Silent House & The Stuff!

It’s been a hectic week but in amongst the chaos and work I’ve managed to refuel myself with 3 hits of horror, two old favourites and something new … The Exorcist 3. 1990 Over the years I’ve heard a lot of people say that The Exorcist 3 is underrated, I’m not sure I agree, surely

[Reviews]

Chainsaw Confidential

Chainsaw Confidential: How We Made the World’s Most Notorious Horror Movie is written by Gunnar Hansen and it chronicles the making of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I could give a straight up review of this book but instead I’d like to take you on a little journey that, I hope, will support my review a

[Reviews]

Deep and Dark: The Descent Has it All

How often do you get asked to suggest a movie choice for a friend or relative who has run out of ideas? When it comes to horror I find myself telling people to give The Descent a try every chance I get. In my humble opinion it’s a brilliant film, (thought I would get that

[Reviews]

True Detective

Amazing, no. Beautiful, no. Brilliant, no. Dread, no. Ecstasy, no. Fascinating, no. Haunting, no. Horrifying, no. Incredible, no. Melancholy, no. Riveting, no. Shocking, no. We could go through every word in the dictionary and we’re still simply going to fall short of describing a masterpiece like True Detective. After Breaking Bad was over, I thought