Location, location, location. The importance of location in a horror movie cannot be overstated, as the good ones understand that the setting can be a character in and of itself. The Shining, for example, had the Overlook Hotel, while Halloween had the small, atmospheric town of Haddonfield. Like The Descent and last year’s As Above, …
The [REC] series is quite an interesting one, one that doesn’t quite play by the rules of franchise horror. While the first two films were exceptional-yet-similar found footage affairs, the third installment completely shed the filmmaking style and went in a totally (and tonally) different direction, trading in the horror for horror-comedy. Just released onto …
Legendary British production company Hammer Films has had a pretty respectable resurgence over the course of the past eight years, films like Let Me In and Wake Wood showing that they’re still a force to be reckoned with. In 2012, the company hit another home run with The Woman in Black, a remake of the …
After the success of Halloween, the slasher sub-genre capitalized big time with other holiday-themed body count flicks, films like My Bloody Valentine, April Fool’s Day and Mother’s Day coming along to ensure that every big date on the calendar had a horror movie of its very own. Released in 1980, New Year’s Evil is unique …
Summer 1986 – I was eleven years old, toys and movies were awesome, music was memorable, hair was big, and the Friday The 13th franchise had reached its sixth installment. JL is more or less my favorite Friday. I love them ALL for different reasons, but Part 6 would be my swift choice if you …
We’ve been celebrating the 30th anniversary of A Nightmare on Elm Street all year long here on Halloween Love, and throughout the course of the year we’ve talked everything from Freddy’s Nightmares to the godawful remake. So be sure to hit up the HL Elm Street archive, if you’re new round these parts. With the …
UK-based label Death Waltz Recording Company dropped a little treat down the proverbial chimney this holiday season in the form of Silent Night, Deadly Night‘s very first soundtrack release, on both vinyl as well as CD. The limited edition two-disc affair, which quickly sold out, served to celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary, and boy does …
As we already discussed at length here on Halloween Love, 2014 was a damn fine year for horror – on the indie front, at least. In addition to a handful of exceptional films, there were also incredible performances aplenty, proving that horror and bad acting don’t always go hand-in-hand. Now that we’re in the final …
Found (sometimes stylized as “found.”) is a microbudget indie feature from Scott Schirmer based on a novel by Todd Rigney. The movie finally saw a release in 2014 after working the festival circuit since 2012, where it won numerous awards and accolades. It’s about a young boy who discovers that his brother is a serial …
There’s nothing I love more about the Christmas season than watching all the films that are sadly irrelevant the other eleven months of the year, ranging from holiday classics like Christmas Vacation and Scrooged to horror favorites like Black Christmas and Silent Night, Deadly Night. On top of that list of must-watch feature films is …
