Ten movies that totally rip off A Nightmare on Elm Street
What do you do when you see a film series succeed? Applaud it? Or try to outright ape it and make your own version? Well, the ten folks on this list did the latter. Would you really want to enrage Freddy Krueger? 1. Bad Dreams: Let’s get it straight: I love this movie. But I […]
Slumber Party Massacre II (1987)
You can pish posh this movie by its title or the fact that it rips off A Nightmare on Elm Street or that it’s ridiculous that it has a slasher who has a Warlock guitar with a giant drill at the end. Or you can just do what I did: utterly enjoy every single minute of it. […]
WATCH THE SERIES: A Nightmare on Elm Street part three
Where could a Nightmare on Elm Street go after five movies, a TV series and numerous appearances in pop culture? Freddy had gone from a horrifying villain to somehow, the hero of the series. Sure, this had happened to Godzilla and Gamera, but those monsters were always friends of children, not murderers of them. Wes Craven’s […]
Trick ‘r Treat (2007)
How did I go eleven years without watching this? I should hang my head in shame. I love portmanteau movies and stuff that gets really weird, so I have no real reason why I skipped this. Here’s hoping everyone can find it in their heart to forgive me. Inspired by Season’s Greetings, an animated short created […]
All of the 2018 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge movies in one place
We did it! Today’s the final day of the Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge! Check out our final films. And while you’re at it, check out Scarecrow Video and donate some money to their fine efforts! You can also see this list on Letterboxd. 1. The Lady Auteur: Pioneering women directors in psychotronic cinema. Now see who’s […]
2018 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 31: Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Day 31 of the Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge is 31. In the Graveyard. The graveyard seems a fitting place to end a journey. But for some it might just be the beginning…ZOMBIES!!! How did it take so long for this, one of my favorite movies of all time, to make it to the site? This is […]
Sleepstalker (1995)
Sometimes, I’m a glutton for punishment. Other times, my acid reflux wakes me up at 3:30 AM and I stay awake watching 1990’s direct-to-video horror. This would be both of those things at once. Imagine a movie that rips off both Shocker and A Nightmare on Elm Street at the same time, but also has voodoo and […]
Before The Haunting at Hill House: The Haunting (1999)
This version of The Haunting of Hill House went through several ideations and creative hands, starting with Wes Craven, who ultimately decided to make Scream instead. Steven Spielberg, this film’s executive producer, had talked to Stephen King that 1963’s The Haunting was a great starting point and that the Winchester Mystery House would be a great setting. However, the […]
Before The Haunting at Hill House: The Haunting (1963)
Long before Netflix was even a small stream, Shirley Jackson wrote The Haunting of Hill House. Jackson decided to write about a haunted house after studying nineteenth-century ghost researchers from the Society for Psychic Research, who she believed had not found a true haunted house, but instead, she said they were “several earnest, I believe misguided, certainly determined people, […]
WATCH THE SERIES: A Nightmare on Elm Street part two
In our last post, we got into the origin of the Nightmare on Elm Street films. Now, sadly, we start to discover why — and when — the series started to go downhill. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child – 1989 What can you say about a movie where the director, Stephen Hopkins (Predator […]
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