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My name is Tommy. I'm a 21-year-old college student from the primitive wilds of Kentucky who really likes horror films. Like, a lot. This blog is my tribute to them. It features creepy pictures, gifs, reviews, ramblings and fiction.
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The six of you who follow me on twitter may know that I’ve been trying—just as I do every year, unsuccessfully—to watch at least one horror movie every day during October. This time around, I’m trying to focus mostly on films that I’ve never seen—or, at least, haven’t seen very many times. I’m happy (and surprised) to report that I’ve gotten through the first week without any hiccups. Night 1: Wishmaster (1996) — I hadn’t seen this one, but I’ve owned it for ages as part of this DVD 4-Pack featuring Pumpkinhead II. Which is a positively bitchin’ film, for the record. I wasn’t expecting much, to be honest, and for that reason Wishmaster really surprised me. It’s not great, it doesn’t reinvent the wheel, and it’s not scary—but it’s fun. And I like fun. It’s a movie about a killer genie, for Christ’s sake. What’s not to love? It’s also worth checking out for the genre homages and cameos. Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Tony Todd, Reggie Bannister, Ted Raimi, Angus Scrimm(’s voice), and THE DEMON PAZUZA all have bit parts.  Night 2: Witchboard (1986) — Witchboard is a Oujia board film written and directed by Night of the Demons (awesome movie) director Kevin Tenney. I’ve always been fascinated by Ouija boards. I’m not sure if I buy the myth but I love the idea of it. I even own one made in 1971. I like to pretend its brother was in the Captain Howdy scene from The Exorcist. I’m getting distracted, aren’t I? Witchboard wasn’t particularly great. Nothing offensive but I’ll probably never watch it again. I will, however, watch the sequels. There has to be a good Ouija board movie out there somewhere. I’ll find it one day. Night 3: Critters (1986) — I hadn’t seen Critters since I was reeeeeally young—and even then, that may’ve been a Critters sequel. It’s been on the to-watch list for at least 70 years now and I finally carved out the time to watch it last Monday. It’s Critters and it’s awesome and that’s really all that needs to be said about the matter. Go watch it. Night 4: The Howling (1981) — I’d always wanted to see it. It sucked. I was furious. Night 5: Return of the Living Dead (1985) — I’d seen RotLD before. Only twice and never alone, though. I don’t think I really appreciated it fully before this particular viewing. It’s not just a good popcorn movie—it’s the best popcorn movie. Everything about it is brilliant and you should absolutely see it. I’m sure most of you have, but if even one of the 10,789 people stupid enough to follow this blog actually hasn’t bore witness to the glory of Return of the Living Dead before, yeah, that person should stop what they’re doing and rectify this most grievous of sins immediately. They’ll be glad they did. Or something. Yeah. Night 6: The Fog (1980) — At least one person is going to get mad at me for this one. The Fog, for the uninitiated among you, is a John Carpenter flick. Suffice it to say, criticizing a John Carpenter flick on a horror blog is like begging for trouble. But, fuck it; The Fog is a terrible, incoherent mess of a movie with about twenty five seconds worth of crucifix- and pirate-zombie-related awesomeness tacked haphazardly onto the ending to ensure that experiment had some sort of redeeming value. It’s got a wonderful cast and a (deservingly) acclaimed director but it’s an awful film with too many secondary (and tertiary) characters that add nothing to the already poorly-developed story and exist solely to make the damn thing add up to a feature-length runtime. Don’t bother. Watch They Live instead. Night 7: Dolls (1987) — This was tonight’s selection. It was (and is) streaming on Netflix and, hey, apparently I’m in a killer dolls mood. Not good, not awful. Entirely unspectacular but a solid way to spend a Friday night when you’ve got no money and no life. I would’ve loved this if I saw it when I was 8. It just seems like the perfect movie to ween a kid onto horror films with. I doubt I’ll ever revisit it, but I’m not particularly disappointed that I did.

The six of you who follow me on twitter may know that I’ve been trying—just as I do every year, unsuccessfully—to watch at least one horror movie every day during October. This time around, I’m trying to focus mostly on films that I’ve never seen—or, at least, haven’t seen very many times. I’m happy (and surprised) to report that I’ve gotten through the first week without any hiccups.

Night 1: Wishmaster (1996) — I hadn’t seen this one, but I’ve owned it for ages as part of this DVD 4-Pack featuring Pumpkinhead II. Which is a positively bitchin’ film, for the record. I wasn’t expecting much, to be honest, and for that reason Wishmaster really surprised me. It’s not great, it doesn’t reinvent the wheel, and it’s not scary—but it’s fun. And I like fun. It’s a movie about a killer genie, for Christ’s sake. What’s not to love? It’s also worth checking out for the genre homages and cameos. Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Tony Todd, Reggie Bannister, Ted Raimi, Angus Scrimm(’s voice), and THE DEMON PAZUZA all have bit parts. 

Night 2: Witchboard (1986) — Witchboard is a Oujia board film written and directed by Night of the Demons (awesome movie) director Kevin Tenney. I’ve always been fascinated by Ouija boards. I’m not sure if I buy the myth but I love the idea of it. I even own one made in 1971. I like to pretend its brother was in the Captain Howdy scene from The Exorcist. I’m getting distracted, aren’t I? Witchboard wasn’t particularly great. Nothing offensive but I’ll probably never watch it again. I will, however, watch the sequels. There has to be a good Ouija board movie out there somewhere. I’ll find it one day.

Night 3: Critters (1986) — I hadn’t seen Critters since I was reeeeeally young—and even then, that may’ve been a Critters sequel. It’s been on the to-watch list for at least 70 years now and I finally carved out the time to watch it last Monday. It’s Critters and it’s awesome and that’s really all that needs to be said about the matter. Go watch it.

Night 4: The Howling (1981) — I’d always wanted to see it. It sucked. I was furious.

Night 5: Return of the Living Dead (1985) — I’d seen RotLD before. Only twice and never alone, though. I don’t think I really appreciated it fully before this particular viewing. It’s not just a good popcorn movie—it’s the best popcorn movie. Everything about it is brilliant and you should absolutely see it. I’m sure most of you have, but if even one of the 10,789 people stupid enough to follow this blog actually hasn’t bore witness to the glory of Return of the Living Dead before, yeah, that person should stop what they’re doing and rectify this most grievous of sins immediately. They’ll be glad they did. Or something. Yeah.

Night 6: The Fog (1980) — At least one person is going to get mad at me for this one. The Fog, for the uninitiated among you, is a John Carpenter flick. Suffice it to say, criticizing a John Carpenter flick on a horror blog is like begging for trouble. But, fuck it; The Fog is a terrible, incoherent mess of a movie with about twenty five seconds worth of crucifix- and pirate-zombie-related awesomeness tacked haphazardly onto the ending to ensure that experiment had some sort of redeeming value. It’s got a wonderful cast and a (deservingly) acclaimed director but it’s an awful film with too many secondary (and tertiary) characters that add nothing to the already poorly-developed story and exist solely to make the damn thing add up to a feature-length runtime. Don’t bother. Watch They Live instead.

Night 7: Dolls (1987) — This was tonight’s selection. It was (and is) streaming on Netflix and, hey, apparently I’m in a killer dolls mood. Not good, not awful. Entirely unspectacular but a solid way to spend a Friday night when you’ve got no money and no life. I would’ve loved this if I saw it when I was 8. It just seems like the perfect movie to ween a kid onto horror films with. I doubt I’ll ever revisit it, but I’m not particularly disappointed that I did.

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    Halloween now:))
  5. evilecupcake said: All amazing movies. Glad u watched witchboard with gorgeous tawny kittan.
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  9. ohmelissaoh said: glad you’re doing a horror challenge too!
  10. cokedupjesus said: You gotta watch Howling 3: The Marsupials! So bad and Australian, it can’t be boring.
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  13. workshed said: oh man the Howling is so fucking awful. but Ted in Wishmaster is awesome. And Return of the Living Dead is and always will be a go to movie for any time. So good.
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  15. pymparticles said: I am so glad to hear someone else say this about the fog. I was honestly so bored by it, and the whole movie just seemed pointless.