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It’s our favorite time of year! Halloween approaches and John, Moe, Hilden and Christine sit down to talk about their favorite horror movies!

After Hours 14: Horror Movies

The pre-Halloween shenanigans continue. It’s the greatest time of the year, and the entire family gets involved. My wife, myself, my son -and yes – my dog. Here is a picture of Ernie the dog doing a test-run in his unbelievably kick ass Batdog costume:

Happy Monday!

Every year, my wife and I spend nearly the entire month of October watching awesome/cheesy slasher films, mostly from the 80s. It’s my opinion that the late 70s/early 80s delivered some of the greatest slashers of all time and the genre hasn’t been the same since. Our standard flicks include classics like Halloween, Evil Dead, the “of the Dead” series, and the Friday the 13th movies. But each year, I try to add a few new movies to our cycle. In years past, I’ve thrown in Rosemary’s Baby, The Amityville Horror, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Hatchet, Return to Horror High and others. This year, I picked a few that I’ve seen and a few flicks that are completely new to me. Here’s a picture of what just arrived in the mail.

From the top-left to the bottom-right you’ll see the Sleepaway Camp Survival Kit, which includes Sleepaway Camp 1-3, Spider Baby, Dead-Alive, and Re-Animator.

The Sleepaway Camp movies are new to me, but I’ve heard combinations of great and horrible things about them. Some say they’re 80s slasher cheese at its finest, some say they’re just cheese. Either way, I love the Friday the 13th-ish premise; take a bunch of kids, put ‘em at summer camp, and watch the blood and body parts fly.

Spider Baby is a cult classic horror flick from the 70s whose original title was “Cannibal Orgy” and was made by the same guy who did Foxy Brown. That alone is worth the price of admission. But it’s a great flick regardless. And the theme song is absolutely fantastic. Fantomas, one of Mike Patton’s excellent bands, did a rendition of it that you can hear here.

Dead-Alive is an excellent zombie/splatter flick from Peter Jackson. It takes place in a small town in New Zealand and involves a Norman Bates-type situation where a shy young man lives with his domineering mother. She winds up getting bitten by a diseased rat-monkey (yep, that’s right: rat-monkey) and turns the entire town into zombies. The last fifteen minutes are among the bloodiest bits of film I’ve ever seen. Brilliant.

And finally, Re-Animator. Based on an H.P. Lovecraft story, I’ve never seen this flick, unfortunately, though I’ve heard great, great things. It’s got the crazy-doctor-bringing-dead-things-back-to-life schtick, and I’m all about that.

So those are the new horror flicks I’m throwing in our queue this month. What sorts of horror flicks do you check out in October. Got any recommendations? Leave ‘em in the comments section.

Article By: Tyler Durden

Continuing on my quest to review the Halloween series in honor of the original’s 30th anniversary, the next offering is Rob Zombie’s Halloween remake. Released in 2007, Rob Zombie not only remade the legendary movie, he retold it. Unfortunately, he received mostly negative reviews: a 26% rotten rating on RottenTomatoes.com and a 6.0 rating on IMDB. Starring Daeg Faerch as young Michael Myers, Malcolm Mcdowell as Dr. Sam Loomis, Sheri Moon Zombie as Deborah Myers, and Tyler Mane as adult Michael Myers.

Rob Zombie’s Halloween did some interesting stuff. Michael Myers was a mortal in the movie, whereas in the original he was more of a manifestation of evil. Michael Myers was also given a fairly detailed childhood (weighing in at at least 30 minutes of the just under 2 hour long movie.) This childhood screen time is most likely the least popular part of the movie. Given the childhood, Rob Zombie did do a few things right. (more…)

Tyler Durden sends us a review of one of our favorite seasonal movies, Halloween.

Article By: Tyler Durden

In honor of its 30th anniversary, and because it is one of my favorite movies, I am going to review the first Halloween movie, followed by the rest of the franchise. The goal is to have at least two reviews a week in order to coincide with the actual date of Halloween.

So here goes!

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