Halloween: Ranking the Series from Tricks to Treats

October 17, 2018.Reading time 8 minutes.

The wait is almost over. In less than two days, ‘The Shape’ comes home … again. It’s been over nine years since a Halloween movie was in theatres. But this time feels different. With the return of Jamie Lee Curtis and positioning itself as a direct sequel to the original, it can’t help but feel […]

Halloween (2018): Breaking Down the Second Trailer

September 6, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

Forget the calendar, it’s September and for horror fans that makes it unofficially fall. With just over a month before the new Halloween is set to hit theatres, Universal Studios and Blumhouse Productions have seriously ramped up the marketing efforts. Earlier this week, a new poster with the tag ‘Face Your Fate’ was released. Yesterday […]

Make a Date With The Original Prom Night

July 18, 2018.Reading time 8 minutes.

Following the slasher-lite renaissance that capitalized on the success of Wes Craven’s Scream, major studios soon opted to re-visit the ‘Golden Era’ of the slasher. The 2000’s witnessed major and minor titles alike get the remake treatment. It was quite a sight to see some films that once provoked enough public outrage to warrant a […]

Halloween Resurrection: The Sequel That Did the Opposite of Its Title

July 12, 2018.Reading time 10 minutes.

Later this October, the Halloween franchise will be returning after laying dormant for over nine years. One of the ‘Big Three’ of slasher film franchises, along with Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street, the Halloween movies have a much more convoluted timeline than their counterparts. Rob Zombie attempted a reboot of the […]

Halloween (2018): The Night He Came Home … Again

June 8, 2018.Reading time 8 minutes.

If there’s a film at the top of most horror fans’ ‘must see’ list it’s arguably the upcoming Halloween sequel. It’s hard to believe that almost a decade has past since ‘The Shape’ haunted our screens. Now, after anxiously awaiting any morsel of information, the official trailer has been released. What Is It About […]

The Fog (1980) is Still Murky Fun

February 9, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

Thirty-eight years ago, on Feb. 8 1980, legendary horror film director, John Carpenter, released The Fog, his follow-up to Halloween (1978). A minor hit at the box-office (Box Office Mojo, n.d.), The Fog hasn’t received the same affection or attention as other Carpenter films. Halloween (1978) is rightly held up as a classic of the […]