Category: 2024

  • Day 23: The Last Broadcast (1998)

    Day 23: The Last Broadcast (1998)

    Coming out a year before “The Blair Witch Project”, this mockumentary tells the story of a group of people going into the woods to find the Jersey Devil and only 1 of them coming out. The survivor gets charged with murder and convicted, but the documentary digs deeper into the evidence, and comes up with Read more

  • Day 23: Primal Rage (2018)

    Day 23: Primal Rage (2018)

    Originally supposed to be part of a twofer about Bigfoot, I ended up not having time for two, so I went with this one. It’s NOT related to the video game at all, unless they were planning a “Primal Rage-verse”, but prob not.Anyway, a man and a woman get stranded in the wood and there’s Read more

  • Day 22: MaXXXine (2024)

    Day 22: MaXXXine (2024)

    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

  • Day 21: V/H/S Beyond (2024)

    Day 21: V/H/S Beyond (2024)

    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

  • Day 20: Handling the Undead

    Day 20: Handling the Undead

    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

  • Day 19: Late Night With the Devil (2023)

    Day 19: Late Night With the Devil (2023)

    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

  • Day 18: Cat People (1985)

    Day 18: Cat People (1985)

    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

  • Day 17: Mom and Dad (2017)

    Day 17: Mom and Dad (2017)

    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

  • Day 16: A Haunting in Venice (2024)

    Day 16: A Haunting in Venice (2024)

    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

  • Day 15: Baghead (2023)

    Day 15: Baghead (2023)

    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