Premise: Michael Myers was locked away in an insane asylum when he was young for gruesomely stabbing his sister to death. Years later he escapes and heads back to the scene of his crime to unleash his brand of evil on innocent trick-or-treaters. It’s a classic slasher flick that stand apart from others before and…
Read moreWith this pick, I know I am dating myself. The fact that there will be some out there who don’t know about this ground breaking, progressive series, doesn’t come as a shock. Many shows today – their comedy, their pop culture references, their episode story lines and character developments – exist today because Buffy the…
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Originally published and edited from my All Things MJ Cross Blogger on 12/17/2015. Yet another found-footage film. There’s something about having a first-person POV as you turn the corner of some dark tunnel, praying that there’s nothing on the other side. As Above, So Below is rift with these twists and turns. Essentially the story…
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Day 10 of #31daysofhorror reviews Parasite is a South Korean black-comedy thriller that came out in 2019 and near damn swept thee Academy Awards on its path to collecting many other accolades. So why watch Parasite for this or any other Halloween? First The Story: Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship…
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Day 9 of #31daysofhorrror review. The Story: It sounds like just another urban legend — a videotape filled with nightmarish images leads to a phone call foretelling the viewer’s death in exactly seven days. Newspaper reporter Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) is skeptical of the story until four teenagers all die mysteriously exactly one week after…
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For Day 7 of #31daysofhorror review, I present to you Black Christmas (2019). Apparently, this is a remake of a remake of the original (1974). Try wrapping your head around that one. The Story: Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays as students travel home to spend time with their families. But as Riley…
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Day 6 of #31daysofhorror reviews Today’s review is brought to you by the letter: The Story: A family is terrorized by their eight year old’s imaginary friend. What I liked: This has the makings of something great. There’s an idea here just original enough that it holds your attention. There are so many elements of…
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Day 5 of #31daysofhorror reviews We all know this story right? A child’s doll becomes possessed by unimaginable evil and is obsessed with becoming a “real boy”. It’s a bloody take on Pinocchio and the “Boy who cried wolf” that spawned a horror movie icon – Chucky – and a slasher film franchise. Chunky was…
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Originally published and edited from my All Things MJ Cross Blogger on 3/1/2016. It’s critically acclaimed, and according to Stephen King, it scared the shit outta him. So as a horror movie fan, I had to go see what the fuss was all about. A devoutly Puritan family has been ousted from the safety of…
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Originally published and edit from my blogger February 22, 2016 Mix a babysitter-urban legend nightmare and an episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, and you got this made-for tv thriller. Based upon a young-adult lit novel written by novelist Richard Peck, the film revolves around the life of Gail Osborne (Kathleen Beller) as…
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