31 days of terror

31 Days of Terror – Unpopular Opinions

31 March 2010

[I still contend that AVP:R is pretty okay, especially in comparison to its predecessor and some of the weaker entries in the Predator and Alien canons. So there.] If you look back through the archive here, you might notice that there’s no post about Alien Vs. Predator. As a gamer and horror enthusiast, it’s a [...]

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31 Days of Terror – Skeleton Man + Giveaway

30 March 2010

[I wrote two separate blog posts about the film Skeleton Man in my tenure as a blogger.  The first was what might now be called a liveblog of the first time I watched the movie, the second a more coherent analysis of the film that is truly the bestworst of made-for-SciFi television movies, Sharks In [...]

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31 Days of Terror: Popcorn

24 March 2010

I first saw Popcorn in high school, which was the perfect time to see it, really. I wasn’t all snobby and critical; I just enjoyed scary movies – especially the kitschy old ones that I’d see on WPIX on Saturday afternoons at my grandmother’s hosue. Popcorn is kind of bad and kind of lame, but [...]

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31 Days of Terror – The Ring Saga

23 March 2010

[Jeff's mission to blog each day in March on the same topic has gotten handily derailed by the presence of Final Fantasy XIII in his household, but his stumble toward next week's finish line begins here.] It’s unpopular opinion time: I love the American version of The Ring. I’ve never been of the mindset that [...]

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31 Days of Terror – Snakes On A Train

16 March 2010

Journey back in time to 2007 with this long and rambling post about a terrible, cheaply-made Snakes On A Plane cash-in. God bless The Asylum. When it comes to low-budget horror movies that are intentionally similar – at least in title and concept – to tentpole theatrical releases, they’re basically the best there is, which [...]

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31 Days of Terror: The Dark

13 March 2010

This post from April 2006 presages some heavy ruminating about the US The Ring, The Ring Two and Rings, two of which I’ve named as favorites time and time again. I was going to go with Leprechaun in observance of Parade Day here in Scranton, but I’ll save it for St. Patrick’s Day proper. I [...]

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31 Days of Terror: The Blair Witch Project

12 March 2010

Blair Witch is a resonant film. It sticks with you after you watch it.  I’ve seen it relatively few times and as a comprehensive piece of craft I still find it to be an effective, successful film.  Like horror does when it works best, it takes the familiar and subverts it.  It follows a well-worn [...]

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31 Days of Terror: Altered

11 March 2010

Another classic review. Today, it’s Altered, a low-budget alien horror flick that’s a lot better than it needs to be. Consider this a good lead-in to tomorrow’s post on The Blair Witch Project. It doesn’t seem like a smart idea to put ‘FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT‘ on the front of a [...]

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31 Days of Terror: The Spirit Trap

10 March 2010

During March, I will be reprinting select horror movie reviews from Conditional Axe as that blog nears the end of its lifespan.  A best-of collection that will extol the virtues of the genre as well as excoriate Tom Sizemore, Nicolas Cage and Uwe Boll.  Today’s post is originally from January 2007, and was originally entitled [...]

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31 Days of Terror: Patient Zero

9 March 2010

Jonathan Maberry’s Marvel Comics event Doomwar won me over so hard that I wanted to check out one of his novels.  I opted for Patient Zero, the first Joe Ledger book (the second, The Dragon Factory, comes out this month), a military thriller about a zombie outbreak. There is a part of me that enjoys [...]

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