Author: Jamie Toon

After watching X in 2022 (5 skull) and Pearl in 2023 (4.5 skulls), I was pretty excited to watch the third movie in this series. I held off from when it was released so I could include it here, and was not disappointed! It’s as good as the first two, though pretty different feeling as Read more

The latest entry in the annual Shudder produced anthology series of films, this time it’s mostly about aliens. It’s 5 short stories (and a framing device story that’s really the weakest of them all) that vary quite a bit in their quality. They’re all “Found footage” style films, so if you don’t like the shakey Read more

How to get zero skulls from me:– Move at an incredibly slow and boring pace.– Include a slow, brutal pet torture/murder scene 0 out of 5 Handling the Undead on IMDB Read more

I originally had this one later down my list but I ended up bumping it up because I didn’t feel like renting anything and the St. Louis Public Library blocks my favorite pirate sites. I heard very little about this one, other than people liked it, so I was really looking forward to it, and Read more

A throwback today, and I have to admit that I thought I was going into a Stephen King movie. I hadn’t seen this before and when it was listed as an “erotic horror” movie, I wasn’t super excited. I soldiered on though, in the spirit of Halloween. (It was not all that erotic) Malcom McDowell Read more

With my second Nic Cage film of the season, I bring you Mom and Dad, a movie not afraid to kill children but not quite smart enough to do anything but. Nic and Selma Blair are suburban parents with their own struggles. Nic has hit the midlife crisis wall hard and Selma struggles with connecting Read more

The latest in the Kenneth Branagh directed/starring Agatha Christie adaptations, this one based on her book “Hallowe’en Party”. Branagh stars as Hercule Poirot, retired to Venice, having lost his faith in humanity. A writer friend finds him and forces him to attend a Halloween séance of a girl who committed suicide by jumping into the Read more

A folk-y feeling British film, Baghead is about a woman who inherits a countryside tavern when her dad dies, and she finds that there’s a monster woman in the basement that can grant some sort of boon. The movie unfolds pretty quickly, revealing the monster and the history of the people that own the tavern, Read more

Well, my efforts to watch OnlyFangs earlier was thwarted by the fact that it isn’t finished yet, so I chose this earlier film by the same director, featuring a lot of the same cast. This one is super low budget and it shows, It doesn’t have the same charm as a Troma film, but it’s Read more

Nic Cage and his sons are surviving in this post apocalyptic movie where monsters who come out at night. Some bad stuff happens that disrupts their survival routine and they have to fight monsters. This movie is bad. It tried to take itself seriously and then has the worst designed monsters I’ve ever seen. They’re Read more