- Frankenweenie (2012): 9/10 http://www.twincities.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20121002__121005m-franken-bw.jpg Charming stop-motion expansion of Tim Burton's 1984 short is beautifully-animated, cleverly designed and filled with new twists on the material, including numerous other resurrected hou...

Anyone for cake…? - Happy Death Day (2017): 7.5/10 https://static.highsnobiety.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/16125948/happy-death-day-trailer-one-00.jpg - Happy Birthday To Me (1981): 7.5/10 https://riversofgrue.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/happy-birthday-to-me-1981-eye.jpg A pair of birthday treats...

- The House Of The Devil (2009): 9/10 https://cdn.someecards.com/posts/house-of-the-devil-1-e1351468476895-Uhj4.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F913LrBAMSg Terrific, pitch-perfect throwback to early-80’s horror cinema about a young college student named Samantha (Jocelyn Donohue, an eerie ringer...

- The Babysitter (2017): 5/10 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfiVFzYXIAA4Y1c.jpg Fitfully amusing horror/comedy about a meek 12-year-old named Cole (Judah Lewis), whose crazy-hot babysitter, Bee (Hugo Weaving’s niece, Samantha Weaving, who shares her uncle’s penetrating gaze and impressive eyebrows), i...

A pair of Zombie love triangles formed today’s twofer… - Burying The Ex (2015): 6.5/10 https://i0.wp.com/zombieresearchsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/BurytheEx_header.jpg?fit=620%2C290 A young man named Max (the late Anton Yelchin) – who works at a horror-theme memorabilia shop -- loses his ...

Things that are stranger than Stranger Things on tonight’s twofer (with special guest viewer the Nephew!). - Beetlejuice (1988): 8.5/10 http://images.hellogiggles.com/uploads/2015/08/11/Beetlejuice-Winona-Ryder.jpg Tim Burton’s second feature is still one of his funniest pure comedies, a hellzapoppi...

Eat one now / save one for later… - Twins Of Evil (1971): 7.5/10 https://kultguyskeep.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/twins-of-evil04.jpg - Let Me In (2010): 9/10 http://ksassets.timeincuk.net/wp/uploads/sites/55/2010/11/LetMeInPR291010.jpg Late-period Hammer vampire chills from their waning days in the...

It’s the 80’s / so do a lotta Coke / and vote for Ron-ald Rea-gan! 8) - Of Unknown Origin (1983): 2.5/10 https://moviesfilmsandflix.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/ofunknownoriginteaser.jpg?w=480&h=272 A pre- Robocop Peter Weller is driven to obsessive madness dealing with an unruly rat in his New Y...

As far as the score, I don't think Coma gets enough credit for having one of the most interesting spotting decisions I've ever come across. There is absolutely no scoring in the first half of the film -- not even a main title. But the second half of the movie is densely scored. An usual, offbeat ch...

AndyDursin wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2017 10:06 pm I liked her but thought that film absolutely stank. Final Destination leftovers with few takers interested.

Joey King is a very talented young actress, so sad to see her wasted in dreck like this.

- Wish Upon (2017): 3/10 https://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2017/07/11/11-wish-upon.w710.h473.jpg A down-on-her-luck teenage girl (Joey King) receives a mysterious box festooned with Chinese symbols from her dumpster-diving Dad (Ryan Phillippe), and discovers that it grants her every wish…bu...

- Salem’s Lot (1979): 8/10 https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7a/ff/13/7aff13d85a0e80f028b8501a2f8c469c.jpg The late Tobe Hooper’s career as a horror filmmaker was maddeningly uneven…for every Texas Chainsaw Massacre , there were at least two Lifeforce s (to say nothing about the controversy about who “...

I never drink… wine … - Dracula (1931): 8/10 https://m0vie.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/dracula1931i.jpg?w=468 - Dracula (1979): 8/10 http://www.midnightonly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/dracula-2.jpg Maybe the creakiest of the early Universal Monster movies, the Tod Browning production of Dracula ...

Owen Gleiberman's take on the original film pretty much encapsulates my opinion of it, in that's somehow mesmerizing and plodding at the same time.

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A pair of classy 20th Century Fox chillers tonight… - The Innocents (1961): 10/10 http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VBinLySPOc0/UHh4Ejq8yeI/AAAAAAAABD8/ZghtLiBBVDo/s1600/innocentsdeepfocus.jpg One of the all-time greatest haunted-house movies, with a superb performance by Debora Kerr as Miss Giddens, the ne...