On paper, Daybreakers sounds like a great idea. Ten years after the vampire plague took the world, vampires have nearly diminished their supplies of blood. They’re furiously working to create a synthetic blood substitute (TruBlood?), but the supplies of humans and pigs are dwindling. And when vampires go hungry, they go feral, and become a danger ( Read more... )

 That this was my Halloween costume a few years ago.


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My top five movies are as follows: Jurassic Park, Fight Club, Empire Strikes Back, The Thing, and Alien/Aliens. I am counting them as one because I love them both, but feel like it would be too much to have them both on my list. Lucky me, then, since for my Readings in the Genre class, I get to watch Alien and The Thing. Day 13’s horror movie is ( Read more... )

I've often said the great white north--and the great white south--are brilliant venues for horror. The Terror, Mountains of Madness, The Thing...all of them allow the setting to become an oppressive character, just as eager to kill the humans as whatever supernatural terror lurks. 30 Days of Night is no exception. If you have a moment, check out ( Read more... )

Trick R Treat was certainly a treat. Originally slated for a 2007 Halloween release, the studio pulled the picture with no talk to rescheduling because they didn't want to interfere with Saw IV (or something)'s release. Trick R Treat was sent straight to DVD. This is the second movie (Altered) which was supposed to come out in theaters, but was ( Read more... )

I’ve seen Alexandre Aja (director of my much beloved “Piranha 3-D)’s debut motion picture High Tension (aka Switchblade Romance) on a lot of “Best Horror Movies of the 2000’s” lists. It was recommended to me by a friend via The Facebook, then another friend jumped in and said “Nooo it’s the worst movie EVAR, there’s no continuity ( Read more... )

Last night’s major motion picture, movie #8, was the 2006 “Hatchet”. Cavorting around in the bayou near New Orleans, some tourists get hacked up by a special needs kid who died in a fire several years ago. I get what writer director Adam Green was trying to do, I guess, giving us stereotypical characters and clichéd situations. This was truly a ( Read more... )

I chose this evening’s film because it was the shortest movie in my Netflix queue and I had shit to do. I had very low expectations of Altered, a 2006 straight to dvd alien revenge film. I was wrong. A group of good ole boys catches themselves an alien out in the (scary) woods. Once they get it, though, the real question becomes what to do with the ( Read more... )

Netflix kept assuring me that I would enjoy the 2008 straight to video horror/western The Burrowers. It was okay. A frontier family disappears and the logical assumption is that they were taken by Indians. A group of rough and tumble men go after them (including some Lost alums), there is a bigoted, unpleasant military fellow, some people disappear ( Read more... )

I’ve had a zombie-riffic couple of weeks. As of late I’ve read World War Z, Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry, The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell, and The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan ( Read more... )