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  • Fright Week Films: The Simpsons Treehouse of Terror

    Fright Week Films: The Simpsons Treehouse of Terror

    I am aware I titled this series Fright Week Films and this will be a second consecutive TV-related post, but I did not realize that my fancy this week would lean that direction. Besides, The Simpsons’ Treehouses of Terror, now in their 37th iteration, are Halloween staples. Despite not watching a regular The Simpsons episode…

  • Fright Week Films: Dracula (1992)

    Fright Week Films: Dracula (1992)

    When I recently finished listening to Audible’s fully casted adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, I wanted to stay in that world. Enter Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula from 1992.

  • Fright Week Films: Evil Dead (2013)

    Fright Week Films: Evil Dead (2013)

    I cannot claim to be a die-hard Evil Dead fan. I have seen the original and Evil Dead II, and I stuck with Ash vs Evil Dead for a bit, but I do not know the ins and outs of the lore or even much outside the basics of how the films connect. The new…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: Happy Death Day

    You may watch the trailer and come away with low expectations. That was me, and I did not expect to be surprised by a movie combining slasher and time loop tropes. Alas, I was.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: Halloween (1978)

    Saturday Morning Cinema: Halloween (1978)

    1978’s Halloween is one of my favorite scary movies. While I’ve watched it enough to neutralize any of the “scare”, it’s a film to be appreciated for its legacy. The look, movements, and invincibility of Michael Myers is synonymous with Halloween.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Nothing But Trouble

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Nothing But Trouble

    About a 5-minute read I dreamed a dream of Halloween and hoped what I saw was not to be. In a never-ending fever of grotesque and macabre, my fleeting sanity the torment did rob. When I awoke, its presence I felt, though night’s shadows and darkness ran from the dawning sun’s melt. My dream was…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

    Saturday Morning Cinema – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

    God forgot to bless this part of Texas. About a 6-minute read The inescapable heat invaded every corner – there was no escaping its oppression. The passing breeze offered no solace, only bringing more warmth to assault the teens as they wearily stumbled through brambles and the occasional husk of abandoned machinery. Their world had…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Sleepy Hollow

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Sleepy Hollow

    Sleepy Hollow kicks off my 2025 spooky season viewing as I let Tim Burton whisk me away to a well-crafted world with unique characters that makes the most of the Headless Horseman legend. What makes Sleepy Hollow such an engrossing watch? It’s the things Tim Burton is so good at.

  • Scary Morning Cinema: Alien and Event Horizon

    Scary Morning Cinema: Alien and Event Horizon

    In my recent viewing of two space horror movies, Alien being one, I was more aware of Alien’s influence on the sci-fi genre. I’ve always been aware of cinematic elements that look like Alien, but now, they really jumped off the screen.

  • Slasher Morning Cinema: Friday the 13th Parts 1 and 2

    Slasher Morning Cinema: Friday the 13th Parts 1 and 2

    For whatever reason, I’m drawn to the Friday the 13th movies. As the series progresses, the ridiculousness becomes nearly too much to watch, but the first couple entries are gold, tarnished gold.