Posts Tagged ‘Horror’
Public Domain Movie Of The Week: The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, or of you want to impress your friends with your fluency in German- Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, is often considered to be the first horror movie ever made. It’s debatable as to what the first horror movie actually is, or what constitutes horror for that matter, but most people give it to Caligari. But any debate on that is pretty irrelevant because Dr. Caligari is one heck of a movie.
Told mostly in flashback, the story centers on the evil Dr. Caligari. He travels the countryside wowing people with the predictions of his psychic somnambulist. During one of his shows at a local fair, a man asks the somnambulist when he’ll die. The psychic predicts by dawn of the next day, and by golly, he’s dead the next morning. The
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Tags: expressionism, fear, Horror, light, murder, shadow
Public Domain Movie Of The Week: Night Of The Living Dead
The modern zombie, the mindless, shambling, flesh- and brain-eating undead ghoul, was born in Night of the Living Dead.
Tags: Dead, Horror, remake, splatterfest, zombie
4 Totally Awesome Movies Based On Board Games, And 1 Crappy One
In honor of the announcement that Ridley Scott is going to direct a movie based on Monopoly, I’ve compiled a list of the greatest movies based on board games.
Tags: award, death, disgust, Dragon, game, Horror, Monopoly, monster, parody, prodigy, War
Public Domain Movie Of The Week Double Feature
To get warmed up for Halloween, I present two of the most frightening horror movies you could ever want to see, Freaks and Nosferatu.
Tags: Halloween, Horror, lawsuit, monster, sideshow, story, vampire
All Aboard The Midnight Meat Train
If you didn’t know any better, you might think The Midnight Meat Train was the most anticipated, greatest movie you never heard of.
Tags: butcher, campaign, disgust, epic, fear, Horror, murder, photographer
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore
Tobe Hooper’s career has been on a downward slide since he made The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1974. Maybe he’s a hack that got lucky with his first theatrically released movie.
Tags: budget, cannibal, disgust, family, Horror, remake, splatterfest, viscera
Two Masters Of Horror Talking Remakes
You know I hate remakes, but, hey, this is just me bitching. Let’s take a look at a couple people who are actually affected: John Carpenter and Dario Argento.
Tags: Directors, Horror, interview, John Carpenter, Opinion, remake
Stop This Crazy World, I Want To Get Off
So, here we are, in the golden age of remakes, and things just keep getting more obfuscated. First we had remakes. If you want to see The Fog, you have to figure out whether you want the original 1980 version or the 2005 remake. That’s bad enough, but now we’ve got the insanity of remakes of sequels and sequels to remakes.
Tags: Dead, Halloween, Horror, Movie, News, remake, sequel
Natalie Portman Is Killing Me
What’s the point? There are so many other movies to remake, why pick one that is a pillar of it’s genre? I guess I’ll eventually have to accept this is the way things are now.
Tags: film, Horror, Movie, story
Let Us Go In, The Fog Is Rising
So, whatever happened to John Carpenter? It’s been a long seven years since Ghosts of Mars was released- the last movie he made.
Tags: Directors, Horror, Review
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