Jason from Force Five was kind enough to invite me onto his show to talk about my favorite horror directors! We overlapped a surprising amount. Check it out here! We had a blast and I hope you will too listening.
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Horror Hangover: Disfigured Face Reveals with Richard Newby
This month, we sat down with film critic and author Richard Newby to talk about Disfigured Face Reveals! He’s brilliant! We focused in on Eyes Without a Face and Noroi: The Curse. Listen here!
Move Over Billy! A Horror Hangover Holiday Special
Cass and I were joined by our friend Yutaka from the Horror Hour for our Holiday Special! We had a blast talking about all three Black Christmas films! Listen here!
My Horror Confessional: The Eyes of Laura Mars
Miguel Myers was kind enough to absolve me of one of my horror sins: not having seen The Eyes of Laura Mars. Listen to us joke around and talk about the movie here!
Beyond the Cabin in the Woods: Texas Chainsaw Massacre
I went Beyond the Cabin in the Woods and discussed the 2022 Texas Chainsaw Massacre. You can listen to it here!
Oh No, a Cursed Object!
The newest episode of The Horror Hangover is live. Cass and I talked Cursed Objects with John Baltisberger. Listen here!
Spell mixes Deliverance and Misery with Hoodoo [Blu-ray Review]
Spell’s hero, Marquis T. Woods (Omari Hardwick), is a bigshot lawyer getting ready for his next case—defending against a class-action lawsuit with mostly black plaintiffs—when he gets the call that his father has died. Over dinner he tells his wife and two children, “I haven’t seen him since I ran away from Appalachia and never looked back.” The family decides to fly his single-engine plane down for the funeral. After ignoring multiple warnings at a gas station, Woods loses control of the plane in a storm. The scene cuts to black, leaving audiences to imagine the crash.
Woods wakes in the bed of a creepy cabin, foot wrapped in blood soaked bandages. Shortly after, Ms. Eloise (Loretta Devine) comes in with her associate Earl (John Beasely), who tells Woods, “Wasn’t no one in that mushed up old plane but yourself” with a thick accent. There’s also no help on the way because they’re 50 miles away from the nearest hospital and Ms. Eloise doesn’t have a phone. She does have two men—Earl and Lewis (Steve Mululu)—to help her take care of Woods. Quickly, she begins telling him about Hoodoo, though she never says if she’s going to use her spells to help him or use him as ingredients to help with her spells.
Ryan Bradley’s Top 10 Horror Movies 2020
No one is out here arguing that 2020 was a good year in most respects. But horror films (and novels) have been popping all year. We’re in a boom with horror auteurs stacking great movies one after the other. The boom arguably started in 2014-2015, when Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows, Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook, and Robert Egger’s The Witch were released in a little over a one year period.
This boom, unlike previous periods of horror, has given more opportunities to women, people of color, and LGBQT people. Diversity in front of and behind the camera in horror has led to a better genre, which was demonstrated clearly by the excellent offerings of 2020
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The Curse of Hobbes House is Almost There [Review]
In her first scene in The Curse of Hobbes House, Jane Dormant (Mhairi Calvey) is at rock bottom. She wakes up in her car, a four-door Sedan she lives in, to the sound of her phone ringing. Her boss is calling from the bar where she works, telling her not to bother coming back in. They’ll mail her check. She gets another phone call from a lawyer. Unfortunately, her Aunt has died. Would she be able to make it to the reading of the will at the titular Hobbes House? Jane has no option but to say yes.
Jane is one of the film’s bright spots. The character is well-scripted by Wolf-Peter Arand from a story by director Juliane Block to get empathy from viewers. She has immediate wants, and Calvey does a good job carrying Jane’s weariness with her throughout the film. The performer might not hit all of the high notes as the film becomes more emotional later on, but she makes the character feel real early on.
Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula Races onto Blu-Ray
Train to Busan was one of the most buzzed about zombie movies of 2016. Though it hasn’t been getting the same buzz or acclaim, it’s sequel Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula is a worthy successor.
The new film picks up four years after the first two films (the other being the darker, animated film Seoul Station). Jung-seok (Gang Dong-won) and his brother-in-law Cheol-min (Kim Do-yoon) accept a mercenary mission to travel back into zombie-infested Korea to try to recover a truck full of money. Where the titular train of the first film forced the action into tight spaces, the third lets the characters run, shoot, and drive around an entire zombie-infested city.
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