Good and Terrible: 8 Movies Featuring Exorcisms
Aug 30
In a blatant, shameless attempt to garner more hits, I’m making a topical post referencing the recently released film The Last Exorcism. And so I present to you an entirely subjective list of 4 good (and 4 terrible) movies featuring exorcisms. Exorcisms would seem to be a pretty popular topic in the horror genre, and yet it’s not explored as frequently as other common horror...
Confessions of a Fear Junkie – Silent Hill
Aug 24
At the risk of sounding a bit crude, allow me to propose that horror falls within (or roughly around) two general categories: “Oh Crap!” horror, and “What the hell?” horror. The former would be likened to more visceral or “primal” fears, the kind of horror that, when experienced in real life, makes you want to take off running immediately. The latter is more...
The Last of the Saw Flicks? Dare I Dream…?
Jul 23
Quick, somebody give me a top to spin so I can verify that this is reality! Even though it’s likely a lie, much like Friday the 13th’s blatantly false “Final Chapter,” the new teaser trailer for SAW 3D declares that this is the “Final Saw.” I won’t link to the teaser because f*** this movie and all of its predecessors, save the first one which was...
The Worlds Between Words – Devil in a Blue Dress
Jun 27
I recently finished Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley’s excellent hard-boiled mystery novel. Within the first third of the book there was a line that struck me like a solid swing of baseball bat to the abdomen. Mosley’s lead, World War II veteran Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, describes the fear that seized him during his introduction to combat. “The first time I fought...
“The Last Exorcism” Poster. What. Is. THIS?
May 16
With the release of a teaser poster, The Last Exorcism has gone from being completely off my radar to squarely within my cross hairs. As my boy over at The Brand New Cool points out, this poster is so creepy it almost makes watching the film pointless. Color me cynical or impressed, perhaps a bit of both, but some part of me thinks this is probably going to be the film’s signature moment...
Confessions of a Fear Junkie: The Golden Arm
May 04
Confessions of a Fear Junkie – “The Golden Arm” This is, to my recollection, my earliest encounter with a ghost story, antedating my ongoing, abusive, unhealthy love affair with horror. It’s not the clearest memory, I was only five-years-old, but it’s less opaque than other memories from that age. “Who’s got my Golden Arm?!” My kindergarten teacher’s name was Mrs. Nina...
Confessions of a Fear Junkie: The Blair Witch Project
Mar 23
I understand why a lot of people hated The Blair Witch Project. When it was first released over a decade ago I didn’t understand the negativity, but it didn’t take long for me to figure it out. And no, I’m not blaming it on “Hype Backlash,” though that was probably a part of it. Truth is, it’s not a very good film. It was, upon initial viewing, a...
God of War III is Outstanding. That is all…
Mar 22
Okay, that’s obviously not all, but only because “outstanding” is not quite super enough of a superlative to describe God of War‘s first (and only?) installment on the PS3. Neither is “epic.” Oh no. God of War makes the word epic feel inadequate and unsure of itself. Epic was the coolest kid in school–star quarterback and star pupil–until God of...
