I Know What You Did Last Summer is ‘prime’ teen slasher horror. Our cast is quintessentially 90s. The villain cloaked in an improbable, vaguely menacing costume. The script has the depth of a puddle. It is not a good product. But it is entertainingly mock-able.
The Lodge has offerings that any horror fan can appreciate—creepy dolls, 80s home-videos, cults, clips from The Thing, etc. But it is a bleak jaunt to the cinema.
Dread is a modest love letter to great gaming and great horror. An innocent Jenga® tower is all you need to play. But players soon find that 54 stacked little wooden blocks can breed terror.
“Let me tell you something about these tattoos, okay? That is Wiccan, that is Icelandic, that is Jewish, that’s just gibberish. They are completely conflicting ideologies, and that does not make you a wicked witch, it makes you full of shit!”
‘Psycho’ captures a portrait of America at a particular point in time, but also speaks to universal themes in American fiction.
The Overlook could be a great horror monster that returns with familiar schtick and inventive ways to terrify you. That is not what ‘Doctor Sleep’ chooses to do.
Many queer folks grow up identifying with the weird and the villainous… For many, being queer is all about being put in a box and saying “Nah, fuck that box.”
Two men to tend a lighthouse. One is a haggard seadog, another is wet behind the ears. One may be a murderer when they arrive. One may be a murderer at the end.
‘I Remember You’ (Icelandic: ‘Ég man þig’) by Yrsa Sigurdarsdottir is heartily recommended if you want to white knuckle your way through 300-odd pages of terror.
Unlike accidentally summoning Hell Raiser or dream battling Freddy Krueger, home invasion murders have been played out horrifically in real life throughout history.
Why I Love Horror 