This Year in Horror: 2013

This Year in Horror: 2013

by Eli Henry

  2013 saw a pretty large influx of horror films. Here's your run-down on the good, the bad, and the mediocre. First, the bad...

O v. R: EVIL DEAD

Original v. Remake: EVIL DEAD

by Eli Henry

  By the time I'd seen the original Evil Dead, I was fairly well-versed in horror. In two weeks at my grandma's house I'd pushed my way through several decades'-worth of relaxed horror film-viewing. The Shining, It, Halloween, you name it. Name a popular horror film between 1970 and 1990, and I'd likely seen it in those two weeks. It was a lot of horror films, is what I'm trying to get across. However, none of these phased me, and upon returning home and watching more, I still just wasn't being scared by movies some people were flat-out scared to even watch. Then I found Sam Raimi's EVIL DEAD, a film I remember seeing in my family's old VHS movie case among Little Mermaid, Spawn, and its sequel ("DEAD BY DAWN!!"). It was newly added to Netflix Instant-Watch, and I was home alone for 6+ hours. Out of new horror films easily available to me, I hit the play button on Evil Dead. And thank God I did. 

Review: Texas Chainsaw 3D

Review: Texas Chainsaw 3D

by Eli Henry

  Hey! Sorry for not posting in awhile (a LONG while... almost 9 months), but I've been busy with several other projects, including short-stories, which you can find on my blog "Eli Wennstrom's Written Works". Don't worry, I do have several new articles on the way here, including one called "Why Insidious is a Remake of Poltergeist", and "O v. R: Evil Dead".

  Anyway, enough introduction: here's my review to the newest chapter in the TCM saga (one which pretends all but the first film don't exist). 

My Halloween Movie Playlist

My Halloween Movie Playlist

by Eli Henry

  This upcoming Wednesday is Halloween. Sounds like a good time to make up my mind about what movies I'l be watching...

Blood On TV: Death Valley

Blood On TV: Death Valley

by Eli Henry

  Death Valley is a mockumentary TV show on MTV about a special department (the Undead Task Force, or UTF) of the Los Angeles Police Department that dispatches the werewolves, vampires, and zombies that mysteriously descended upon Calfornia a year before the show's opening, and are now living in the San Fernando Valley. The show is structured like some kind of COPS from Hell. 

Review: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Review: Rocky Horror Picture Show

by Eli Henry

  Dammit, Janet! This is going to be a fun review. 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' is the best Frankenstein parody/homage (sorry, 'Young Frankenstein'), and by far the best musical ever created, and I've had the fortune of parents who own the film, and also enjoy it. This is stuff fresh off my mind, I watched RHPS just two nights ago for the second time. Here goes.

O v. R: Halloween

Original v. Remake: HALLOWEEN

by Eli Henry

  1978 saw the release of what would become one of the most influential horror films ever made: John Carpenter's 'Halloween'.  2007 saw the release of what would become one of the worst horror film remakes ever made: Rob Zombie's 'Halloween'. Oh, boy.