Spook Show Cinema #14: Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
With the help of huge box office outings and the extremely talented Robert Englund playing him, Freddy Krueger had become a full blown celebrity.
With the help of huge box office outings and the extremely talented Robert Englund playing him, Freddy Krueger had become a full blown celebrity.
Blood Night is one of those rare films that I watched and enjoyed, but ended up liking it the more I thought about it. As I’m writing this I’m finding myself appreciating it more and more.
I recently partook in a little film titled Rites of Spring. It caught my eye with its sweet retro poster. Something about it made me really want to see this movie. Maybe it was the fact that it shares a name with a sweet band. Who knows?
There are times when I have good ideas and there are times I have great ideas. My most recent great idea was to watch all 6 movies in the horror/comedy franchise, Leprechaun, leading up to St. Patrick’s Day. I gathered some friends, we bought the DVDs and we did what had to be done.
A lot of big things happened in 1990. Mr. Bean debuted on television, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, the Ultimate Warrior defeated Hulk Hogan for the WWF Heavyweight Championship at Wrestlemania VI, Germany reunified, Rangers F.C. won their 2nd consecutive league title in their historic “9 in a Row” run and Frankenhooker was released.
The Collector is a horror film from 2009 that falls into the “torture porn” subgenre, which was originally intended to be a Saw prequel.
Critters is a wild romp about 8 tiny, furry creatures called Crites whom escape from a space station. The guy that runs the station sends a couple of bounty hunters after them and that’s when things start to get awesome.
I’m going to level with you from the start, folks. If you want me to roll my eyes at a movie, tell me it’s a remake.
Another Saturday of fun is coming up on August 25th from 12 noon to 4PM as we host the Monsters of Carnage film-making crew and their bevy of beautiful bikini girl cannibals! Swing by and enjoy a hot dog, some nifty horror related collectibles and other surprises to be revealed. Enjoy yourself and help a…