Horror Archive

  • Some observations: -Perhaps more than any other horror film of the 1990s, Scream acts as a fun history lesson.  In chiding and recycling the slasher film tropes of yesteryear, Wes […]

    The Best Horror Movies of the 90s: Scream

    Some observations: -Perhaps more than any other horror film of the 1990s, Scream acts as a fun history lesson.  In chiding and recycling the slasher film tropes of yesteryear, Wes […]

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  • Disasterpeace composed the soundtrack to this year’s breakout horror film, It Follows.  His score honors the golden age of horror synth soundtracks by breathing fresh life into the sound (much […]

    Disasterpeace – Fez

    Disasterpeace composed the soundtrack to this year’s breakout horror film, It Follows.  His score honors the golden age of horror synth soundtracks by breathing fresh life into the sound (much […]

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  • Near Dark is a vampire Western.  The first hour shows a farmhand’s seduction by, and ‘nitiation into, a roving, nocturnal gang of sh*t-kickers who happen to be bloodsuckers.  In the movie’s […]

    Near Dark

    Near Dark is a vampire Western.  The first hour shows a farmhand’s seduction by, and ‘nitiation into, a roving, nocturnal gang of sh*t-kickers who happen to be bloodsuckers.  In the movie’s […]

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  • We should be in the golden age of cinematic imagination, shouldn’t we? Computers should have unlocked the visual genius of dozens, maybe hundreds of filmmakers, who astonish us with incredibly […]

    Alien

    We should be in the golden age of cinematic imagination, shouldn’t we? Computers should have unlocked the visual genius of dozens, maybe hundreds of filmmakers, who astonish us with incredibly […]

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  • The trick to writing unpleasant, selfish, nasty or self-serving characters is (if you want the audience to give a damn): they have to be human. It’s easy to say that […]

    The Ruins (2008)

    The trick to writing unpleasant, selfish, nasty or self-serving characters is (if you want the audience to give a damn): they have to be human. It’s easy to say that […]

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  • Raw Meat is kind of fresh: There are some things here that we have not seen in a horror film, which nobody has ripped off. This, along with good acting, […]

    Raw Meat (1973)

    Raw Meat is kind of fresh: There are some things here that we have not seen in a horror film, which nobody has ripped off. This, along with good acting, […]

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