Monthly Archives: October 2017

24 Hours of Horror for Halloween

Posted on October 27, 2017 at 10:03 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Looking for Halloween (or Halloween-weekend) viewing recommendations? Here’s another proposed 24 hour marathon from Midnight Only, one to fit the season. Of course, rather than indulge in the whole exhaustive thing, you can simply take a film or two that … Continue reading →

Posted in Marathon, Theater Caligari | Tagged 20's, 30's, 60's, 70's, 80's, Alien Invasion, Animation, Barbara Crampton, Boris Karloff, Cannibals, Carnival, Christopher Lee, Clive Barker, Craig Sheffer, Danny Elfman, David Cronenberg, Diana Rigg, Donald Pleasence, Dracula, Edward Van Sloan, Ennio Morricone, Fred Dekker, Gene Wilder, George Romero, Ghoul, giallo, Gloria Holden, H.P. Lovecraft, Halloween Marathon, horror, J-Horror, Jamie Lee Curtis, Japan, Jeffrey Combs, Jess Franco, John Carpenter, Madeline Kahn, Mario Bava, Marty Feldman, Mel Brooks, Michael Myers, Pere Portabella, Peter Boyle, Skeleton, Slasher, Soledad Miranda, Stuart Gordon, Teri Garr, Tobe Hooper, Vampire, Vincent Price, Walt Disney, Zombie | Comments Off

Prom Night (1980)/Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)/Prom Night III: The Last Kiss (1990)/Prom Night IV: Deliver Us From Evil (1992)

Posted on October 20, 2017 at 5:41 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

Without a doubt one of the strangest of the slasher film cycles is the Prom Night series, which kicks off with a decent, by-the-numbers genre entry, stalls out, unexpectedly resurrects itself, plunges into horror-comedy, and doubles back to slasher while … Continue reading →

Posted in Marathon, Theater Caligari | Tagged 80's, 90's, Brock Simpson, Canuxploitation, Cynthia Preston, demons, High School, horror, Jamie Lee Curtis, Joy Tanner, Leslie Nielsen, Lisa Schrage, Michael Ironside, Nicole de Boer, Possession, Prom Night, Slasher, Wendy Lyon | Comments Off

Stalker (1979)

Posted on October 6, 2017 at 1:13 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

The Zone, in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979), is a region affected by a fallen meteorite in ways that are left deliberately undefined. It is an otherworld, a displaced and eerily altered stretch of swamp and forest and derelict buildings and … Continue reading →

Posted in Theater Fantastique | Tagged 70's, Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian, Science Fiction, Surreal | Comments Off

Monthly Archives: October 2017

24 Hours of Horror for Halloween

Prom Night (1980)/Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)/Prom Night III: The Last Kiss (1990)/Prom Night IV: Deliver Us From Evil (1992)

Stalker (1979)

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