Ah, VHS. Three letters that instill warm, fuzzy and utterly nostalgic feelings in so many horror fans – myself included. A dead format, long ago replaced by things like DVDs and Blu-rays? Well, it depends on who you ask. Though it’s been many years since VHS tapes were widely available for either rental or purchase, …
Last month here on Halloween Love I wrote up a think piece about the oft-maligned sequel Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, wherein I dug deep into some of the film’s more interesting aspects, convinced that there’s more to it all than meets the eye. Though I encourage you to go back and read the …
No matter what you think of the Scream movies, love, hate, indifference – there is one aspect that is hard not to seriously like, and that is of course Ghostface, the most energetic and clumsy of all the horror movie icons. Freddy likes to prowl and pose, the master of his dream realm. Michael Myers …
It was hard not to be a little bit disappointed with The Purge, which took a brilliant and totally evocative concept and turned it into a fairly generic home invasion movie. I enjoyed it, don’t get me wrong, I just expected so much MORE from a movie about all crime – including murder – being …
They is an excellent, very scary movie. And despite having pretty decent production value, great effects, and being very claustrophobic, creepy, suspenseful, having FreakyLinks favorite Ethan Embry, being presented by Wes Craven, and playing in theaters, either no one saw it (or heard of it) or of those that did, they absolutely hated it. Of …
I’m often asked by fellow fans to list off my favorite horror movie kill scenes, which is a gargantuan list that’s quite frankly impossible to limit to the usual 5, 10 or even 20 that website lists are typically limited to. There are just too many awesome ones that come to mind whenever I’m asked …
We all love horror movies, perhaps obsessively so, right? But, why? Most people think it’s weird and simply don’t “get it”. So, where does this passion come from? For some of us, I think it runs a little deeper than it just being that we love to be scared. Horror runs deep in my psyche …
I’ll never forget the night I went on Chatroulette with some friends a few years back, which was equal parts fascinating, disturbing, hilarious and utterly creepy. If you’ve never been on, Chatroulette is one of many internet services where you can live video chat with people from all over the world, giving you unsettling access …
What was the first horror movie you ever owned? In my case it was a brand new, mint condition copy of A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2, in a large VHS rental box that had been purchased by my parents from a mail order company. If memory serves it was Christmas 1986, I was …
Presumably referring to the criticism being heaped upon his latest film, Deliver Us from Evil, writer/director Scott Derrickson tweeted something out over the weekend, which really stuck with me. “A good movie doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel,” he wrote, “but it does have to roll it well.” What Derrickson was essentially saying is that …
