Another reboot of a 1979 classic by the same name When A Stranger calls takes a new generation of film goings into the urban legend of The Babysitter and the man upstairs. We start a random scene of a fair while listening to repeated calls placed by a yet unknown male to a young girl inside a house. The scene ends hearing the same girl scream as she is murdered off-screen supposably to set up what we are about to see, but the scene doesn’t add much to the film. Meet Jill (Camilla Belle) the jilted teen who finds out who boyfriend kissed one of her best friends but still ends up using all her c ..read more

Ah, Christmas, the season of love and reconciliation and bloody murder. One of the first films to put us in the killers POV. Its a dark movie in both content and delivery it’s also the subject of an upcoming reboot directed by Sophia Takal (All the Light in the Sky, and Supporting Characters) Due to be released Dec 13 (Friday the 13th) of this year. I’m not a massive fan of these reboots. The characters are often one dimensional and who are hard to care about. With no plot or character development, and the atmosphere is just hard to match to the original. The premise of the film is a good o ..read more

The film that legend has it resulted in pregnant women going into labour and terrified moviegoers worldwide when it was moved over from Willaim Peter Blatty’s’ novel. Fun fact about me on this one being raised Catholic and having seen this when I was younger, I thought this would be one hell (Pardon the pun) of a job. I even took it so seriously that I was briefly entertaining the thought of going into the seminary as a teen. Ok so back to the film, when it released in Dec of 1973 many critics thought they had seen a classic. Others thought that had been witness to “Religous claptrap ..read more

I couldn’t watch this one all in one go. I watched it over a few days stopping and starting hoping that it would grab my attention but it never really did. First, the basics, a young married couple set off on their honeymoon and all is right with the world. Bea (Rose Leslie), And her new husband Paul (Harry Treadaway) seem like a happy couple just starting on their adventures together. It doesn’t take long for things to look not quite right; however, in this sleepy cabin community, they go to After the obligatory sex of the honeymoon Bea one night slips into the dark forest while Paul is g ..read more

This one is pretty good to start with some twists and turns that you didn’t see coming till we are already there. Our main characters are Chelsea, Grant, Jerk, Abe and Amber, a group of teens who flea to the woods after stabbing an NYPD officer and getting involved in the drug culture. Before starting the dash for the mountains, Chole considers shooting the cop with his gun. These events trigger a flashback to her time as a young girl with her uncle up at the hills. It consists of her talking to a young park ranger whos trying to tell her to go along with some unknown falsehood. We’ll meet thi ..read more

So Camp Crystal Lake and it’s most famous resident came back to the theatres ten years ago. In the hopes of making you forget about the real horror that was ‘Freddy Vs Jason’ Six years earlier. I guess besides Michael Myers and Freddy, Jason is one of the most recognizable faces that started the teen slasher craze in the 70’s/80’s I went into this movie not expecting much and the first 15 minutes or so really held up that expectation. It appeared that Markus Nispel was going for pure torture porn as opposed to genuine scares. We start in June of 80 Jasons’ mom has killed off all but one of the ..read more

So I thought with the release of the Blair Witch video game why not have a wander down to Burkittsville and revisit a film that started the whole “Found Footage” Craze. Set in October of 94 Heather, Josh and Mike head out to make a documentary on the so-called Blair Witch. The first quarter of the movie is pretty decent as it lays the groundwork for what the teens are heading out to investigate including supposed sightings by Molly Brown, the town crazy. When watching the movie, I had to keep reminding myself that it was scary for the time back in the mid-90s; this kind of film wasn’t as commo ..read more

Ok so as I write this it’s actually August the 31, and no it’s not really a dark and stormy night at all it’s actually 28 C outside but hey I can dream right ? So I’ve finally decided to take my love of everything horror online and make my own blog I know I know who needs another one right ? But hey you might just enjoy the read So what will you be seeing here ? Well I love horror movies as the title kind of implies and so what I’ll be doing is watching movies new and old and then writing my reviews here .. I’ll also be letting you know about good podcasts that I’m listening to that hav ..read more

This one is pretty good to start with some twists and turns that you didn’t see coming till we are already there. Our main characters are Chelsea, Grant, Jerk, Abe and Amber, a group of teens who flea to the woods after stabbing an NYPD officer and getting involved in the drug culture. Before starting the dash for the mountains, Chole considers shooting the cop with his gun. These events trigger a flashback to her time as a young girl with her uncle up at the hills. It consists of her talking to a young park ranger whos trying to tell her to go along with some unknown falsehood. We’ll meet thi ..read more

So Camp Crystal Lake and it’s most famous resident came back to the theatres ten years ago. In the hopes of making you forget about the real horror that was ‘Freddy Vs Jason’ Six years earlier. I guess besides Michael Myers and Freddy, Jason is one of the most recognizable faces that started the teen slasher craze in the 70’s/80’s I went into this movie not expecting much and the first 15 minutes or so really held up that expectation. It appeared that Markus Nispel was going for pure torture porn as opposed to genuine scares. We start in June of 80 Jasons’ mom has killed off all but one of the ..read more