Comments on: Happy Halloween!

By: Hayden

Hayden — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 03:05:55 +0000

I will check it out. And yes, Deep Red is a great one too!

By: Trey

Trey — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 02:35:08 +0000

Never seen ISOYG, but trading almost anything for Suspiria is a trade-up. (Except maybe Deep Red!)

I saw a bootleg of Let’s Scare Jessica, so maybe some of the grime has been cleared away on the new DVD. Speaking of DVDs, MoH Season 1 is out now, I think. The really good ones are pretty much the ones you’d expect–Argento, Dante, Carpenter. These are all definitely worth a rent.

By: Hayden

Hayden — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:30:29 +0000

I still haven’t seen Let’s Scare Jessica to Death but it sure is getting a lot of attention lately after being released on DVD. The way you describe it reminds me of how I felt after seeing I Spit On Your Grave, which has to be one of the ugliest films in the horror movie genre. In fact, I couldn’t watch it more than once. I traded my copy for Dario Argento’s Suspiria, a film that has to be one of the most stylish in the genre. We don’t have Showtime so I haven’t seen Masters of Horror yet. But what I’ve heard of the series, it sounds like a winner.

By: Trey

Trey — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:53:42 +0000

I’ll look around for Home for the Holidays. You had me with the rain coat and boots.

Hey, have you seen Let’s Scare Jessica to Death? It has this air of..I don’t know what. You find it only in Seventies movies and the best word I can give it is “decay.” Where the atmosphere is so heavy with a particular kind of sorrow, you just want to get out, but you can’t stop watching.

I just read that Masters of Horror is starting again soon!

By: Hayden

Hayden — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:54:57 +0000

Ah yes, Black Christmas. Apryl and I checked that one out for the first time around Christmas last year. Pretty creepy. Even more than the killer himself, I remember that weird sorority house mother. How funny, that the director would years later make A Christmas Story.

We also did a spooky Christmas theme this year without really thinking about it. First, we saw The Nigtmare Before Christmas 3D. And Halloween Eve, we watched the Made For TV flick, Home For The Holidays (1972), starring Sally Field and written by Joseph Stefano (Psycho). Not a great film, but a little creepy. The story centers around four sisters (all named after boys) who gather home for Christmas when they get the news that their father is being poisoned by his new wife. Soon, the sisters are being offed one by one by a killer in a yellow rain coat, red boots, and a pitchfork. Again, the set up has been done over and over but it did come out six years before Halloween and two years before Black Christmas.

On Halloween, we watched Repulsion (1965), followed by an episode from Creepshow (1982), an episode from Ray Bradbury Theatre (The Crowd), a few radio dramas “Ghost Hunt” from Suspense and “Terror By Night” from Inner Sanctum. And of course, we had to finish up the movies with Night of the Living Dead. We ended the night with the Coast To Coast AM annual special “Ghost To Ghost” with Art Bell.

Hope you had a spooky time last night!

By: Trey

Trey — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:49:16 +0000

What’s on your Halloween viewing list? We watched Black Christmas (1974)–the first time I watched it, I was fairly spooked, but last night I was just so impressed by what a well-made movie it is. It dodges nearly every horror movie cliche in the book–maybe because it was made before a lot of those cliches took root.

Thanks for posting a link to your show. I’ll be enjoying that shortly.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:18:30 +0000

Hey, alright! I’ll have to check that out…