SHOCKtober 2012 – Day 24: Tombs of the Blind Dead (1971)
Man, oh man. Tombs of the Blind Dead delivers. It begins innocent enough with a girl in a shower… it’s a beach shower next to a pool, get your mind out of the gutter! Betty is showering and another...
View ArticleSHOCKtober 2012 – Day 25: Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
If you like movies with resolutions, Picnic at Hanging Rock is not for you. Students from a girls’ school, along with some chaperons, head to a local geological formation for a picnic. Three of the...
View ArticleSHOCKtober 2012 – Day 26: Triangle (2009)
Of all the movies in the SHOCKtober experience, Triangle is easily my favorite. And that’s saying quite a lot when you consider there are zombie films in this list. It is so good that I don’t want to...
View ArticleSHOCKtober 2012 – Day 27: Calvaire (2004)
Calvaire… I don’t really know what to say about it. Crazy people? It didn’t make any sense. What a complete waste of time. I won’t get that time back. It’s gone now. Gone. And what did I fill that time...
View ArticleSHOCKtober 2012 – Day 28: Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Rosemary’s Baby is one of those movies I have avoided for years specifically because everyone keeps telling me how great it is. I’ve done this before, and will continue to do it, because when people...
View ArticleSHOCKtober 2012 – Day 29: The Horde (2009)
My second favorite film of SHOCKtober, The Horde is a French zombie apocalypse tale. A group of police are going after a drug lord who is responsible for killing a colleague. They invade the condemned...
View ArticleSHOCKtober 2012 – Day 30: Planet of the Vampires (1965)
Planet of the Vampires is an Italian science fiction horror film where two spaceships respond to a distress call on an unexplored planet. In their attempt to land, both ships become damaged. One loses...
View ArticleSHOCKtober 2012 – Day 31: Martyrs (2008)
Martyrs. Fuck you. That really should be the entirety of my review. But I don’t want to be so glib. It might encourage people to see this horrific piece of crap. Basically, you should only watch this...
View ArticleSHOCKtober 2012: Post Mortem
Yesterday I completed the 31 movies in 31 days of Final Girl‘s SHOCKtober event. It was an interesting experiment, to watch that many movies in that short a time and write about each one. However, it...
View ArticleI’m gonna miss you, October.
I don’t know who Adrian Snell is, but I may have to buy this album just to support such cool cover art. I logged into the site this morning, to the WordPress dashboard, and saw the graph of my site...
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