“Just so you know, I can’t be your friend.” When a twelve-year-old boy befriends his new young neighbor, the pair form a bond that is both loving and lethal in 2010’s Let Me In. A remake of 2008’s Let The Right One In which was itself based upon a 2004 book of the same nameContinue reading “Thirty-One Days O’Horror: Let Me In (2010)”
Category Archives: Thirty-One Days O’Horror
Thirty-One Days O’Horror: The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
Hammer’s Lone Wolf Despite releasing multiple films featuring re-imagined versions of some of Universal’s most popular classic monsters in the 1950’s, 60’s, and 70’s, Hammer Productions only released one film featuring a werewolf. That film, 1961’s The Curse of the Werewolf, gives us a unique look at the creation of the werewolf and spends almostContinue reading “Thirty-One Days O’Horror: The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)”
It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like…..Halloween!
Thirty-One Days O’Horror Returns Next Month! Thirty-One Days O’Horror is quite possibly my favorite blog category. Over the last couple of years I’ve focused on posting once per day during the month of October with some horror or Halloween related topic. 2019 saw me watch thirty-two classic Universal Monsters films. 2020 was a tad lightheartedContinue reading “It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like…..Halloween!”
Thirty-One Days O’Horror: Monsters, Inc.
“We scare because we care.” Almost exactly nineteen years ago, Disney and Pixar released the wildly popular Monsters, Inc. The film starred John Goodman and Billy Crystal as James P. “Sulley” Sullivan and Mike Wazowski, respectively. In the film, monsters harness the screams of children to power their city, Monstropolis. To do this, the monstersContinue reading “Thirty-One Days O’Horror: Monsters, Inc.”
Thirty-One Days O’Horror: Disney’s Greatest Villain
“I’ll find her! I’ll find her if I have to burn down all of Paris!” Disney has tons of memorable villains in their films. From the first feature length villain, the Evil Queen, to characters that have been given their own franchise films such as Maleficent, Disney knows how to make a great villain. ButContinue reading “Thirty-One Days O’Horror: Disney’s Greatest Villain”
Thirty-One Days O’Horror: Making The Nightmare Before Christmas
“This is Halloween!” The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of the most celebrated films of the holiday season. It works as both a Halloween film and a Christmas film, so many families and fans (such as myself) watch it multiple times during the final months of the year. The movie is twenty-seven years old asContinue reading “Thirty-One Days O’Horror: Making The Nightmare Before Christmas”
Thirty-One Days O’Horror: Don’t Look Under The Bed (1999)
“Just because you’re getting older doesn’t mean you have to get old.” In 1999 the Disney Channel and director Kenneth Johnson stuck their necks out to produce the channel’s first true horror film: Don’t Look Under The Bed. The movie succeeded in scaring youngsters….and their parents. Parents demanded that the film be removed from theContinue reading “Thirty-One Days O’Horror: Don’t Look Under The Bed (1999)”
Thirty-One Days O’Horror: All Hail The (Evil) Queen!
“Mirror, Mirror On The Wall…” In today’s Thirty-One Days O’Horror entry I decided to pay homage to the original bad girl, the first villain to ever grace the big screen in a feature-length Disney film: Snow White‘s Evil Queen. Scaring children and adults alike since 1937, the Evil Queen has appeared in multiple Disney productions,Continue reading “Thirty-One Days O’Horror: All Hail The (Evil) Queen!”
Thirty-One Days O’Horror: ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter
“Here kitty, kitty, kitty….” Way back in 1979, director Ridley Scott and writer Dan O’Bannon brought science fiction horror to another level with Alien. Starring Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley and an ensemble cast that featured Yaphet Kotto, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt, and more, the film became an Academy Award winner and launched a franchiseContinue reading “Thirty-One Days O’Horror: ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter”
Thirty-One Days O’Horror: Famous Monsters Speak
“You are the one who wants to know everything…be brave!” In 1963, Wonderland Records released Famous Monsters Speak on vinyl. Produced by Jim Warren of the magazine Famous Monsters Of Filmland, with a script written by Cherney Berg, the album features Dracula and Frankenstein’s Monster in a pair of recordings roughly twenty minutes each. VoicingContinue reading “Thirty-One Days O’Horror: Famous Monsters Speak”
