My highest recommendation for this gem currently streaming on Shudder. Oddity is everything I needed a modern horror movie to be. We watched it last night and it was delightfully terrifying.
To Fire You Come At Last - a 46-minute ghost story currently streaming on Shudder. We watched this tonight and it was a perfect horror film, beautifully shot and brilliantly acted. I hung onto every minute of it, wondering how it would end. And unlike so many horror films these days, it didn't disappoint.
Looking forward to seeing what the Halloween season brings for this blog from the golden age of blogging.
This is really fantastic.
You haven't truly SEEN Basket Case until you've seen it in a dark theater with a bunch of horror fans. Truthfully, I never thought I would watch this one again. It was one of the first horror films I rented as a kid. Some friends and I went into the video store looking for a truly scary and blood-soaked nightmare-inducing film. What we got was something so odd and campy, but shot surprisingly well (I didn't realize that fact at the time). But the concept stuck with me for decades.
My mother's mother was a cool lady. She passed away when I was about eight, but she was perfectly placed in those formative years to introduce me to the joys of everything spooky. She would visit on some Saturday mornings, with her pack of cigarettes and dressed like someone who was in a rockabilly band. She'd bring us cool toys like rubber skeletons or a neat blood-dripping candle skull. She'd also let us watch horror films. Creature Double Feature to be exact. Those days were glorious. She was someone who was the opposite of my parents. Someone who seemed to realize that a lot of life was silly and shouldn't be taken too seriously.
Saturday was our second time attending the annual celebration of that hungry red monster from outer space - the Blob. Phoenixville's Blobfest is essentially an open-air horror convention honoring that time back in 1958 when portions of the The Blob were filmed at the Colonial theater. The event is a love letter to the film. The color red is everywhere. Restaurants and stores are decorated in red balloons, banners, and crepe. Vendors fill the streets selling spooky merchandise and artwork.
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| The restaurant was playing The Blob... |
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Here's a film you don't often see on people's top ten lists. We watched it recently and it still holds up. It's suspenseful and genuinely scary, with a really interesting story.
Click below for the trailer (though it gives a lot away)...
One of my favorite horror films. Beautifully directed by Anthony Perkins himself.
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