All Things HORROR

THE DOCTOR AND THE DEVILS (1985) Blu-ray Review

Cast: Timothy Dalton, Jonatahan Pryce, Twiggy, Patrick Stewart, Julian Sands, Stephen Rea, Phyllis Logan, Lewis Fiander, Beryl Reid, T.P. McKenna, Sian Philips
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Damn! How come I've never heard of this?

This is more a period mellow drama than a Gothic thriller and this one just lacked the spark and gruesomeness of previous incarnations, the cast is decent but one-dimensional and this version adds nothing to the lore, it's a decent watch but not a high recommend. I say skip this and take in the aforementioned Val Lewton produced BODY SNATCHER (1945) or THE FLESH AND THE FIENDS (1960) starring Peter Cushing (TWINS OF EVIL) and Donald Pleasance (HALLOWEEN) which are far superior productions.

A decent watch but not one of my favorite interpretations of the story, a bit too much of a period drama and I think I was looking for something darker and more macabre. Not without it's 19th century charm but not something I will need to revisit anytime soon. if you have a keen interest in the Burke and Hare story and don't need it to be as lurid as previous incarnations might get more enjoyment out of this one. 3 Outta 5
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Catherine Reviews Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook [Theatrical Review]

It is altogether rare when a horror film works as equal parts psychological character excavation and a genuinely scary piece of cinema (to be fair, not all horror aspires to both). In Jennifer Kent’s debut film The Babadook, the two are bone-chillingly inextricable by making a grief-ridden mother-son relationship the nucleus from which a storybook monster’s infiltration is born. Statements like this are not usually in my deck of words, but after seeing this heartbreaking and deeply disquieting tale of woe, it is hard to deny The Babadook‘s status as the best horror film of the decade so far.
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I saw there was a thread called all things Horror.

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An 'Iranian Vampire Movie' Is One of the Best Films of the Year

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night may be my film of the year (it’s a close contest with Locke). But it’s not enough to say it’s superior to bogus conflations like Interstellar and Gone Girl, or the contrived, studious do-goodism of Masterpiece Theatre pictures such as A Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game. Those comparisons only flatter the mainstream pictures, and dull the dirty radiance of this first feature film, written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour. It’s not even that she has tossed off a casual masterpiece fit to live beside the best work of her evident forebear, David Lynch. No, A Girl is to be judged on a higher plane still, one that includes the visions of Jean Vigo, Jean Cocteau, and Luis Bu?uel. This is a dream on your screen, absurd, languid (if not slow), and possessed by the calm of an inevitable beauty. This is what cinema was invented for, a rapture in the school of the surreal, indifferent to the time-wasting fallacy that movies have, or should have, anything to do with realism.
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Scream TV Series – Wes Craven Unveils New Ghostface Mask
http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/81757/scream-tv-series-wes-craven-unveils-new-ghostface-mask/



I don't hate it, but was kinda hoping they would go all vanilla/chocolate/strawberry a la Scooby Doo. Rocket from The Killing is the lead, and the showrunner is the same as Harper's Island(which was surprisingly decent) so maybe this won't all out brick...but Craven hasn't been responsible for anything good in years, so lets hope he is just getting paid to tag his name on it.
 
Review: 'A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night' Is A New Vampire Classic Worth Treasuring

Occasionally the film's overwhelming emphasis on mood (over, say, character or narrative) and the deliberate pacing threaten to break its singularly intoxicating spell. But thankfully that never actually happens. Instead, the movie glides through, using wonderful visual shorthand to get across key information and reveal things about characters that dialogue or lengthy exposition would ultimately undo. The gender politics of the movie are, obviously, fascinating, ranking with "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" as one of the more feminist explorations of vampire mythology to grace popular culture. The girl isn't the victim, she's the vampire—and she's not apologizing for it, either. (Somewhat more obtuse are the geopolitics of the movie; it's littered with lingering, nearly-still shots of oil derricks. Because… oil is the blood of the world? And we're all addicted? Or something?) Watching "A Girl Walks Home At Night," you get the impression that you're witnessing something iconic and important unfold before you. Mainstream success, even the minor kind that "Let the Right One In" achieved, might elude the movie, because it's so damn weird. But for adventurous genre enthusiasts, it'll be hard not to fall in love with this strikingly surreal 'Girl.' It's a new vampire classic, one to treasure endlessly. [A-]
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Review: Found Footage Horror Movie 'The Pyramid' Starring Ashley Hinshaw And Denis O'Hare

Virtually every scary Egyptian trope associated with this kind of movie (and then some) is thrown into "The Pyramid" bouillabaisse by the time the movie reaches its third act—ancient plagues, theories about UFOs, Masonic imagery, a jackal-headed monster (unconvincingly rendered via dicey computer graphics), human sacrifices, and the aforementioned mutant feral cats. But none of these angles has any real weight, nothing sticks. Levasseur tries to pull something interesting out of the premise, but can't figure out how to make it work. Had the movie taken on a more straightforward approach to the material, ditching the found footage angle and going just for the kind of scares that might have been drummed up in the original 'Mummy,' then "The Pyramid" could have been a pleasant enough throwback. Instead, it's a found footage movie that feels instantly dated, even with its supposed political undertones. It's creaky, laborious, and not, in the least bit, scary. Given that the studio cut back on its release and didn't schedule press screenings, it's pretty clear that "The Pyramid" is cursed. Only, instead of an ancient evil, it's just plagued by inept filmmaking. [D]
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[Review] ‘At the Devil’s Door’ Is an Inventive, Creepy Thriller!

Anyone who enjoyed The Pact is going to love McCarthy’s impressive second film. It’s clever, bizarre, and wildly satisfying. From beginning to end it’s filled with thrilling ideas and claustrophobic tension. Despite the presence of cliches, At the Devil’s Door is one of the most inventive and effective horror films I’ve seen in a while.
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Posting this old-ish review because the film just popped up on netflix.
 
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