Winter Horror-Thon

PART TWO: HELL ON EARTH

Time for a few nightmare visions from the world of subtitled cinema. It would be impossible to avoid the topic on this particular blog after all. Some of these examples present ideas of life from alien planets, some include images of visitors from other dimensions, and some are simply your worst existential fears coming to true all at once. Each of them in this instance are part of rather different sub-genres, but all of them are strange and interesting in their own ways. Movies about flying saucers or demons might suggest one set of images in your mind's eye, but these approaches provide something else entirely. This selection also presents something a little unexpected from each respective studio, as well as films worth seeking out.

Review Roundup - Annual Thing

2022 CATCH-UP: PART THREE

The blockbuster is dead, long live the blockbuster. With the biggest hitters of the year all being sequels or nostalgia fuelled reboots it's hard to get excited about them any more. But for some reason when it's apparently too hard for anyone to write a good Star Wars movie or a good superhero adventure, the Mission: Impossible team is here to provide both. This shouldn't be rocket science but the latest big screen outings for those franchises have been a mess, to put it lightly. After showing the James Bond producers how it's done the same big names are back, providing both the dog fighting thrills absent from the Skywalker Saga and the kind of simple charm absent from something like a Marvel outing. Which I will get to soon enough.

Winter Horror-Thon

PART ONE: THE CHASE IS BETTER THAN THE CATCH

Oh hey guys, it's been a while. I hope all two of my readers are holding up in the cold conditions we've been facing lately. To keep it all together I'm back here typing about dumb horror movies in the dark, after all it's traditional at this time of year. Let's take a look at a few sequels to all time classics and see how much, if any, of the original magic is left. Some are better than you might remember and are worth revisiting. Like an old friend who sheds some new perspective on past events. Others are just perplexing time wasters with nothing to offer, like an old acquaintance you can't seem to avoid. Let's see which of these familiar faces are here to warm us in these long winter nights, and which of them us make is feel like we're at a wake.

Scorecard

OCTOBER

FILM OF THE MONTH: Terror in the Streets ☆☆☆☆