Category: Horror
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Devil Story (1986)
What drew me to Devil Story (1986) was the poster art: a bald Gollum-like mutant wearing a SS uniform and toting a shotgun. As a low budget French horror flick, its first scenes grab you with a lone camping tent in an open forest field rustling with something happening inside. Then out pops the monster… Read.
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Shocker (1989)
Childhood memories of Movie magazine, which would cover upcoming cinema releases and seeing a still of Shocker (1989), Peter Berg in a room splattered with blood, anguished and crying. I was pretty scared of horror movies back then, so that image and the poster of Horace Pinker on the electric chair creeped me out. Years… Read.
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WNUF Halloween Special (2013)
“The Demons of Demolition Derby – we’ll sell you the whole seat, but you’re only gonna need the edge.” Directed by Chris LaMartina and other collaborators, WNUF Halloween Special (2013) takes the form of a recorded piece of public access television, evidently a videotape being played as signified by the occasional bursts of fast-forwarding that… Read.
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Arachnophobia (1990)
Recorded on VHS tape from Channel 7, I repeatedly watched Arachnophobia (1990) as a child. Along with Tremors, these were horror comedies that worked best as ‘gateway horrors’ for me, at a time when I was petrified by the horror aisle in a video store due to the suggestive box covers. Both Arachnophobia and Tremors… Read.
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Eyes Without A Face (1960)
I thought about transition scenes in movies and the greater power that some can have over others. In Eyes Without A Face (1960), a French horror movie about a plastic surgeon (Pierre Brasseur) who kidnaps women to provide a new face for his disfigured daughter (Edith Scob). There is a transitional scene where we see… Read.
