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O is for Open House (1987)
This one I literally Googled eighties horrors that start with “O”. I recognized the coverbox and saw that Adrienne Barbeau was in it so that was good enough for me.A deranged killer is targeting real...
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P is for Phantom of the Opera (1998)
With the upcoming Dario Argento retrospective coming up at The Revue, it seemed fitting to watch one of the few titles in his filmography that I had not yet seen.A man (Julian Sands) raised by rats and...
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Q is for A Quiet Place to Kill (1970)
Q's beyond The Winged Serpent and Quatemass are not abundant so I had to dig deep. Fortunately, due to Shudder's fairly large Euro-horror catalogue, I was able to pull this one out.After recovering...
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R is for The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here (1972)
This was one that's title was infamous and I just happened to have the Midnight Video VHS in my collection. It's been gathering dust since I acquired it many years ago at a Rue Morgue flea market. So...
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S is for Specters (1987)
This one was a blind buy at yet another Rue Morgue flea market. I'd never heard of it, but it has Donald Pleasance in it so that was enough for me to shell out five bucks.Drilling near an archeological...
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T is for Terrified (2017)
For this one I decided to check the only title on Shudder's 101 Scariest Movie Moments Of All Time that I hadn't seen. As luck would have it, it starts with the letter T.Two professors and a cop...
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U is for The Unholy (2021)
Thanks to a kind message from Mermaid Heather, I recently discovered that this movie was actually the sixth adaptation of James Herbert's bibliography. Given that his works are so infrequently mined, I...
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V is for Victims! (1985)
This was just a coverbox from my memory that just happened to be on YouTube.Four young women on a geology(!) field trip in the desert are stalked by a pair of sadistic bank robbers.Whoa, this movie was...
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W is for Watcher (2022)
For today's letter, I picked a new movie Chloe Okuno's Watcher starring Maika Monroe.An American woman (Monroe) moves to Romania with her husband where she starts suspecting the man watching her from...
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X is for X-Ray (1981)
Today's letter is one of the least used in the alphabet, but I still had some choice titles to pick from. I went with Boaz Davidson's Hospital Massacre aka X-Ray.Susan's (Playboy Playmate Barbi Benton)...
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Y is for YellowBrickRoad (2010)
I recently became aware of Andy Mitton's work, first at this year's Fantasia with his new Covid-set chiller The Harbinger and then his previous haunted house tale Witch In The Window so with this...
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Z is for Zipperface (1992)
So here we are at the last letter with a movie I found while researching Carpenter Brut for a listicle in last month's Halloween issue of Rue Morgue.A plucky detective (Donna Adams) persues a masked...
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Happy Halloween!
You can't keep a good holiday down. However, you choose to spend All Hallows' Eve, stay safe kiddies.
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Ride The Mayfair!
Hey all. I'm just dropping in to make sure you know about a new podcast called the Mayfair Watchers Society.Premiering last month, MWS is a ficitonal podcast featuring creepy tales based on the work of...
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Jumbo Reborn!
A few years ago I visited a Jumbo Video that was still operating in Belleville. During the pandemic, I heard that it had closed. I was sad. But now rejoice! It has been reopened with the help of...
View ArticleR.I.P. Angelo Badalamenti (1937-2022)
Gutted to hear of the passing of composer Angelo Badalamenti. He was 85. This man was a creative giant and composed the music for my favourite soundtrack of all time - Fire Walk With Me. Rest in peace.
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2022 Wrap-up
Well, here we are again at the end of another trash fire year. All things considered, while the world burned, I had a decent year. Fantasia& TIFF are returning to their regular scheduled...
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NYEEEEEVILLLLLL!
However you intend to spend it, have a wonderful and safe NYE and I'll see you on the other side of the calendar.
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2023
Okay, we're two days in and so far so good, right? Although I say that without having checked the news... Anyhoops, I just wanted to check in with some notes about this coming year.I'm going to make an...
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