We’re officially into the first week of October, so everyone’s releasing their scary movies for Halloween season. Last year, Hulu went big with its Hellraiser remake. And just over a week ago, Hulu platformed its unique spin on alien invasions, No One Will Save You. Now its latest release, Appendage, promises to mix horror and […]
Talk about a blessing and a curse. The Fangoria-produced Porno has a title that’s all but guaranteed to attract a cross-over audience. Alternatively, horror fans seeking out Porno may have a hard time finding the right movie as opposed to … well, pornography. Regardless of its title, the 2020 horror comedy fuses together two things […]
Though it wasn’t a box office success during its release, Broken Lizard’s Super Troopers quickly gained a cult following. It was enough of a following to earn Broken Lizard another feature-length effort, the slasher parody Club Dread. To some extent, Broken Lizard were a bit late to the game. Just eight years earlier Wes Craven […]
Apparently, in 1985, a noted drug smuggler named Andrew C. Thornton II dropped duffel bags of cocaine over a national park in Georgia. A poor black bear stumbled on one of the bags, helped themselves to some of white powder, and died shortly thereafter. It’s a bizarre footnote in history appropriately coined ‘Cocaine Bear’. Not […]
What’s worse than a guest overstaying their welcome? How about someone showing up uninvited? Hollywood has played the guest who would not leave for laughs (Madhouse, What About Bob? You Me, and Dupree), suspense (Windfall), and horror (Funny Games). On horror streaming platform Shudder, writer and director Duncan Birmingham moves from short films to a […]
Everyone knows that rock n’ roll is the Devil’s music. Ever since Elvis Presley thrust his hips on the Ed Sullivan Show, puritanical outrage has been directed at rock. There’s a long history of rock and heavy metal in horror. Once upon a time KISS made their own 70s-inspired take on Phantom of the Opera […]
This year has promised some big horror movie titles for fans. To date, Scream and Texas Chainsaw Massacre have already dropped. Later in 2022, Morbius, The Black Phone, and Jordan Peele’s Nope hit theatres. And maybe you heard there’s another Halloween sequel coming our way. Still there’s plenty of room for sleeper hits. Just this […]
In one of the inaugural posts here on The Abominable Dr. Welsh, we looked at five underrated slasher movies. We know all the big ones – Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But during its ‘Golden Era’ in the 1980s, movie studios were churning out slashers […]