THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE 8: Prisoners of the Sun (2013)
8. A Film Made After 1989 that Features a Mummy, but not Brendan Fraser or Tom Cruise A multinational expedition discovers a lost city beneath a pyramid and the reawakened gods of ancient Egypt want to end the world. John Rhys-Davies plays Professor Hayden Masterson, the academic who believes that every 5,000 years a celestial […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE 7: Night Watch (2004)
7. An Action Film That’s Secretly A Horror FIlm. Russian-Kazakh Timur Bekmambetov started as a production designer before making Peshavar Waltz and a remake of The Arena for Roger Corman. He may be best-known in the U.S. for his movies Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and his Screenlife movies Unfriended, Searching and Profile. He’s also the owner of Walt Disney’s Los Angeles mansion. […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE 6: Coherence (2013)
6. A Horror Film That Takes Place In One Room (No CUBEs) Eight people — Em (Emily Foxler), Kevin (Maury Sterling), Mike (Nicholas Brendon), Lee (Lorene Scafaria), Hugh (Hugo Armstrong), Beth (Elizabeth Gracen), Amir (Alex Manugian) and Laurie (Lauren Maher) — gather for a dinner part on the night Miller’s Comet passes. Em and Kevin are […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE 5: Office Killer (1997)
5. A Horror Film Directed by a Fine Artist. Cynthia Sherman is a fine artist whose work is mainly a series of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters. Her best-regarded work is the collected “Untitled Film Stills”, a series of 70 black-and-white photographs of herself playing the female […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 4: House Squatch (2022)
DAY 4: A Horror Film Released by SRS Cinema. Directed by Anthony and Mark Polonia from a script by Mark and Aaron Drake, this movie takes place in Shadyville, which has a new resident, the House Squatch, which is, well, squatting in a home that’s for sale. That means that a real estate firm is […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 3: Real Dreams (1997)
DAY 3: An Egyptian Horror Film. Ahlam hakekya is an Egyptian film that takes one of the best giallo plots for its story: Mariam (Hanan Turk) is a painter married to Ahmed (Khaled Saleh) but her life is filled with strangeness, as every night she dreams of the car accident that took the lives of […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 2: Dinosaur from the Deep (1994)
DAY 2: A Horror Film Featuring Non-Avian Dinosaurs and Mezozic Reptiles. Norbert Moutier also made Ogroff, a shot on video slasher. Moutier was an accountant who contributed to the zines Monster Bis and Le Petit bédéraste du 20e siècle before starting to make his own movies in 1982, often serving as the director, screenwriter, producer and […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 1: Ernest Scared Stupid (1991)
Day 1. A Horror Film Seemingly For Kids. That’s Way Too Scary For Kids. Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney) started in a series of television commercials shot at the Nashville-area home of producer John Cherry III and Jerry Carden. Starting in 1980, they eventually did 25 different versions of each commercial and Varney would just […]
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