Day 20: Phantasm Premise: Huh... Okay, a little unsure how to go about this without sounding like a complete lunatic. Um... a pair of brothers discover that something strange is going on around their local graveyard, centered around the mysterious and sinister Tall Man. As their investigation grows deeper, more and more mysteries begin... Continue Reading →
31 Horrors in 31 Days- Day 19: Tenebre
Day 19: Tenebre Premise: A serial killer obsessed with Tenebre, a novel by celebrated author Peter Neal, is systematically murdering young women. The police turn to Neal, recently arrived in the city, for his help in finding the killer. However, soon they might all discover that, for this killer, the lines between fiction and... Continue Reading →
31 Horrors in 31 Days- Day 18: Alligator
Day 18: Alligator Premise: There's a giant alligator in the sewers that is eating people. Other people want it dead for rather understandable reasons. This ain't exactly a complex plot. Thoughts: Boy, the Wheel of Chaos sure has been giving me a lot of variety in the last few days, huh? After the surrealist... Continue Reading →
31 Horrors in 31 Days- Day 17: The Blob (1958)
Day 17: The Blob (1958) Premise: A small meteor falls from the skies one night, containing a strange blob creature that immediately starts trying to eat people, growing larger and larger in size the more it devours. A teenage couple who witness it attempt to warn their fellow townsfolk only to be disbelieved. Will they... Continue Reading →
31 Horrors in 31 Days- Day 16: Whistle and I’ll Come to You
Day 16: Whistle and I'll Come to You Thoughts: Double-billing time! Okay, admittedly, this wasn’t entirely a deliberate choice. This was actually one of the movies I had on DVD, based on a classic story by M.R. James which also happened to be one of my favourite ghost stories growing up, hence why I put... Continue Reading →
31 Horrors in 31 Days- Day 15: Candyman
Day 15: Candyman Premise: Helen, a graduate student writing her thesis on urban legends, decides to try and research the Candyman (a hook-handed wraith who appears if you say his name five times in a bathroom mirror) and his relationship to a rundown, gang-infested housing estate. What results is a murderous mindtrip of bees, hooks and... Continue Reading →
31 Horrors in 31 Days- Day 14: Zombi 2
Day 14: Zombi 2 Premise: A boat drifts ashore in New York City, belonging to a missing scientist and containing one angry zombie. A curious reporter teams up with the missing scientist's daughter on a mission to find the truth and track the boat's trail back to an island in the Caribbean, where the dead... Continue Reading →
31 Horrors in 31 Days- Day 13: Village of the Damned
Day 13: Village of the Damned Premise: A mysterious event leads to every man, woman and child in a small English village suddenly falling unconscious for several hours. Not long after they wake up, it is discovered that every single woman of child-rearing age is mysterious pregnant. Said women give birth to a small legion... Continue Reading →
31 Movies in 31 Days- Day 12: Hausu
Day 12: Hausu Premise: HAH! Thoughts: Okay, jokes aside, once again I do mean this in a fairly positive way. I'm not entirely sure what Chaos God led to me getting two of the weirdest surreal horrors on my list in a row, but both of them have honestly been pretty fun, so I can't... Continue Reading →
SoC&C: Scrapping and Sidekicking (Part 2)
<<<Part 1 Tiff spent most of the next day to herself. Oh certainly, she still went along with her usual routine. She did her deliveries nice and early in the morning, hopped on the Crawler that went between the Fractured District and the Knightly District, made light chit-chat with Goose, the city's Guardsman, reported in... Continue Reading →