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 […]
The Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
Never say never, but I think this will be the only movie we ever feature on this site that has a love theme by Barbara Streisand in it. I could be wrong, but I just get the feeling that there aren’t going to be many more crossovers quite like this one. Eyes of Laura Mars […]
Opera (1987)
Mara Cecova is a diva and the star of a whole new way of performing Verdi’s Macbeth. But when she’s hit by a car as she argues with the director in the middle of the street, her role goes to her understudy, Betty. Ironically, in his book Profondo Argento, director Dario Argento claimed that the […]
2018 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 30: Absurd (1981)
Day 30 of the Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge is Slash Your Face. A solo maniac is out to get ya. You can run but you can’t hide! I’ve been wanting to watch Absurd, the truly bonkers movie from the scumbag team supreme of Joe D’Amato and George Eastman. Originally called Rosso Sangue (Red Blood), this movie is […]
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