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The Great Nick D’s Great Expectations - *[image: Poster - The Great Nick D (2024)] Now Playing: **The Great Nick D * (2024) *Pros: *Refreshingly original comedy-drama that respects its quirky c...2 weeks ago
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Under A Summer Skye, by Sue Moorcroft - As regular readers of the blog will know, I've been friends with Sue Moorcroft since we first met at the Kettering Writers Group in 1999 (we genre writers ...1 month ago
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A Review of Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits - Harlan Ellison was not a science fiction writer. Alright, so he wrote a *lot* of science fiction, but he also wrote a lot of fantasy, horror, thriller...3 months ago
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rach at the movies - I've decided to start up a new 2024 blog over at rachatthemovies.blogspot.com if you wanna follow my movie watching journey I'll see you over there4 months ago
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Horror Entertainment Watched & Read in 2023 - (Ratings 1/2* to *****) *MOVIES* The 3rd Eye [Mata Batan] (2017) **1/2 65 (2023) **1/2 99.9: The Frequency of Terror (1997) **1/2 The Abandoned (2019) *** A...6 months ago
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HWA’s World of Horror - This month, the Horror Writers Association is interviewing Horror writers from across the globe in their series, World of Horror. I had the honour of being...11 months ago
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Long Awaited News - New Website - THE HORROR GROVE - It's been a while my fellow Urban Legends and general all round horror afficionados! After starting this page to share my takes on some well known Urban L...11 months ago
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Fantasy fiction is the best fiction there is, and that's a fact. - We've all seen that ridiculous take-down of Brandon Sanderson, number one fantasy author, by an attention seeker, right? I've got some thoughts about ...1 year ago
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Why I love zombies - I'm not the only one obsessed with the dead who rise I often get asked when people look down my list of published books why I wrote a zombie novel? It ...3 years ago
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Host (2020) Review - Running Time: 56 min Release Date: July 30, 2020 Directed by: Rob Savage Review by: Stacey Well, if this little cyber-horror gem hasn't taken the interne...3 years ago
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Lego’s new “Hidden Side” theme is the only thing I need forever - I’ve been kind of bummed lately, what with the state of the world. Our headlong rush into fascism, irrevocable climate change, and, worst of all, the encro...5 years ago
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The Portal & The Experiment: Two Novellas of Suspense - This is my last post in 2018. I'll see you again in 2019. Thank you to those who have followed my blog. Happy Holidays to everyone! If you're lookin...5 years ago
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2017 and moving forward! - Today I look back at the last year and I find myself excited for what comes in 2018! While I haven't used my platform, I feel at this point it has grown ...6 years ago
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Death Nurse 2 (1988) - Exactly the same as the first Death Nurse movie and with the same "plot", cast, flashbacks etc but with a little communism thrown in for some reason. To b...7 years ago
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What We (don't) Do In The Shadows - Esistono i vampiri classici, vere e proprie icone di stile e raccapriccio (Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, etc.), i moderni vampiri glitterati e bellocci à ...7 years ago
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CANNIBAL FEROX (1981) - CANNIBAL FEROX (1981) (UR) aka MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY Director: Umberto Lenzi 93 minutes Italy I rented this movie back in 1994 on VHS, but had to return it ...7 years ago
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The Invitation - “Okay Emma, do you feel up to talking about that night?” Emma changed position in her chair and stared at the fidgeting fingers in her lap. “Yeah, I gue...7 years ago
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"Stranger Things" by S U R V I V E - The Duffer Brother's "Stranger Things" pays homage to Spielberg or Zemeckis' character driven sci-fi movies from the 80's. It perfectly captures the er...7 years ago
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Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco (2015) - *Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco* *de Stephen Thrower com Julian Grainger* *434 páginas a preto e branco, com 32 páginas em cor...8 years ago
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Mutant Clusterfuck - Right, So awhile back i received an email from a chap who’s name I’ve forgotten and am far too lazy to look up, nor do i care to shame the man. He asked if...9 years ago
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57. - *Move to Transylvania.* Joke! Frankly, it is asking a lot–you’ll have to learn Rumanian and put up with bad, European winters. But you can always visit V...9 years ago
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Highlights from my adventures on the haunted SS Lane Victory - So, I finally got the footage edited and put it all together, along with some EVP's and photos from the investigation this past Saturday. What an amazing...9 years ago
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Bones of Brittany has Gone Fishin’ (or, For Those Who Don’t like Fishing–a Long Hiatus) - Hello there, fantastic followers! I know that I haven’t been updating my content recently, but that’s because I have some exciting news to share! I have be...9 years ago
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“What did you expect? A Holiday Inn?”- Mountaintop Motel Massacre - The title card assures us that Evelyn is certifiable. In the first scene, we see her gardening with a sickle. And guinea pig blood. Meanwhile, Evelyn’s d...10 years ago
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Getting back to real Horror: an interview with Jonathan Chance - "Something Like A Phenomenon" An Interview with Jonathan Chance by @Voldemort2013 Anyone who has been following the surge in popularity of independently ...11 years ago
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21 comments:
This is such an unfair question, it is like asking what the scariest movie is, or what your favorite film is. It comes down to two main choices for me: the Slasher, and Gothic Horror. I can watch Slashers backwards, forwards, in slow mo, silent, anything. The Gothic films are just so timeless and lasting though, and films like BLACK SUNDAY are just shot so incredibly and with such rich atmosphere. Of the two.. I'd have to guiltily go with the Slasher for rewatchability and instant gratification =D
I'd have to say the slasher!!! I just can't get enough of 'em. It's what I was raised on. Plus, I love the sub-sub-genres within slashers, like Home Invasion, Survival Horror, Campy Comedies.
Slasher's and Gialli are up there for me and I also love me a good rape/revenge film too. Which actually ties in well with survival horror. I guess the best is when you get a film that bends the genres around a little.
Gothic for my childhood because they scared the shit out of me back then (fall of the house of usher, house on haunted hill, etc)
Demonic because they scare the shit out of me now (jacob's ladder, rosemary's baby, fallen, etc)
ZOMBIES For good old movie watching fun, anytime (any of 'em)
If I have to pick just one, it's Zombies. Because they are just so damn persistent.
A question though..what sub does Blair Witch Project fall into?
Unless we are considering Found Footage to be a new subgenre, I would lump it into Possession and Satan, which is the unfortunate gray area I throw all the witchcraft films into
Hmmm...Zombies. Hands down. And supernatural themes like Ghosts and Demons. Totally give me the willies.
I'm also a sucker for the whole Shakey Cam Genre.
it's usually hit or miss but i'd say sci fi horror. just watched Pandorum and it looked like a lot of effort and work went into it but i didn't love it or anything.
Hard to say but i'll have to go with zombie, there are plenty of sub genres i love, but i think zombies top the list.
Home invasion flicks like Them, Inside and even the first half of the strangers freak me the hell out in a good way.
all things horror
I don't think I've ever really thought about it until right now, but I'd have to go with survival horror, which can also fall under slasher and rape/revenge as well. I love gritty realism. That being said I do love supernatural themes as well--when done right (Suspiria, The Sentinel, etc).
Zombies....
A close second to...uh...zombies.
Does Freaky French count as one? :)
Gialli are my favorite with slashers in a close second. Then those gothic atmospheric ghostly things. And last but not least, zombie flicks are in fourth place.
zombies, they always find a way to make dead people different. witch hunt films from the 70's, i hate them love them. satan-ish films, like oh god, you devil. lol
most of the 1970's french/bbc films still scare the crap out of me and i know i have not seen them all.
iZombie
Psychological/supernatural horror for me. Films like The Innocents, The Others, I Walked w/ a Zombie, a lot of the old Lewtonesque type films. I absolutely adore those films and wish more of them would be produced. There's usually a lot of atmospheric mood that gets you uneasy and under your skin and I love seeing how psychologically a person deals with weird things going around them. I especially love when it's a person's mentally that causes the horror, whether it's their fear, or their repression of a special aspect, like their sexuality which you can see in films like Cat People (the original b&w version).
Slashers, I suppose, if I had to choose.
Gothic horror films such as those done by Hammer and Amicus.
Creature features, without a doubt. Call me old fashioned - hell, just call me old - but the sight of some beastie wreaking havok, especially one big enough to take out a city block, makes me ten years old again. How I loved 2007 into 2008, because within months of one another, I got to see The Host, The Mist and Cloverfield. And Godzilla will always be King of the Monsters...
Arterial Spraying....yay Japan!
This is such a difficult question, especially when the sub-genres are so vast and different.
I am going to go with my gut and narrow it down to two sub-genres that I could not live without: slasher and psychological horror.
Slasher because Freddy Krueger is my main man in horror, especially 80s slasher films. And psychological horror because I really believe that the mind plays a large role in fear and horror.
I'm going to say supernatural, and not that WB show with the hunky dudes. Did i say hunky? I meant, you know, I think I better just move on. I mean the supernatural. A good ghost story will leave me nervous for days. Case in point Paranormal Activity ruined my sleep for like 3 days.
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