31 Nights Of Horror

Howling, The – Quickie Review: 31 Nights Of Horror (2018) – Day 1

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Classic ’80s werewolf flick, originally released only 4 months prior the werewolf benchmark film, An American Werewolf In London. The transformation scenes are similar between the two movies (future multi-Oscar winner Rick Baker started on this picture before hopping onto AAWIL,) but still different enough to stand on their own. The bladder effects work reminded …

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Repulsion – Quickie Review: 31 Nights Of Horror – Day 31 / Film #3

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A quiet Belgian immigrant is left alone in an apartment while her sister travels to Italy. And soon the isolation drives her to madness. Polanski’s classic. Catherine Deneuve is stunning as the young woman slowly losing her grip on reality. Beautifully shot.

Halloween (2007) – Quickie Review: 31 Nights Of Horror – Day 31 / Film #2

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Each Halloween movie can be described with two “S” words. Carpenter’s: Suspenseful & Subtle. Zombie’s: Savage & So fucking violent. While the story stays mostly true to the original, the tone does a complete 180 and drops the suspense and adds pure brutal gore. Not that there is anything wrong with that. It helps separate …

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Witchboard – Quickie Review: 31 Nights Of Horror – Day 31 / Film #1

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A woman becomes obsessed with a Ouija board. That’s it. That’s the movie. And it’s boring as whale shit. I hate Ouija movies that can’t even pull off the movement of the planchette without it looking really obvious that the actors are pushing it.

V/H/S/2 – Quickie Review: 31 Nights Of Horror – Day 30 / Film #6

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A couple of PIs break into a house to search for a missing student and they discover a large VHS collection. So what do they do? They watch ’em of course. This is the second installment to the popular horror anthology series. It’s loud; it’s chaotic; it’s dizzying; and my god, it is ever violent. …

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Beast, The (1975) – Quickie Review: 31 Nights Of Horror – Day 30 / Film #5

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A wealthy young woman and her aunt travel to a French estate to meet with the family into which she plans to marry, completely unaware of a beast lurking on the property. Wikipedia describes this as an erotic fantasy horror. Well, there’s more whoring than there is horror. As for the beast? Anyone see Your …

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Piranha Part Two: The Spawning – Quickie Review: 31 Nights Of Horror – Day 30 / Film #4

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This is the strangest episode of River Monsters I have ever seen. Flying piranhas, really? If this movie wasn’t based on a true story, I’d be calling bullshit. This film is so bad, I almost walked out of the screening… in my own house.

Monster House – Quickie Review: 31 Nights Of Horror – Day 30 / Film #3

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A foreboding house in the neighbour turns out to be a living and breathing entity. Wonderfully creative design for the ever transforming house. It actually looks terrifying, but not to me. I’m a big boy. While it’s only 9 years old the animation already looks outdated. They look like more detailed characters from The Sims. …

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ParaNorman – Quickie Review: 31 Nights Of Horror – Day 30 / Film #2

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A boy who can talk to ghosts must save his town from a group of zombies and stop a longstanding curse. Very clever and funny movie. I love this style of animation. Younger kids may find it scary, I know my son did when he first saw it, but now he’s fine with it. Full …

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Crawlspace (1986) – Quickie Review: 31 Nights Of Horror – Day 30 / Film #1

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An apartment landlord is the son of a Nazi surgeon and his building has hidden passageways which he uses to spy on his tenants. Klaus Kinski is deliciously creepy as the landlord who is also addicted to death. Solid suspense and some elaborate Saw-like contraptions. Decent, but not spectacular.