For Halloween I have picked 11 horror sub-genres with my number one recommendation from each. I have not included any from what some considered the Golden Age of Horror; which encompassed all the Universal Monster films and traditional Gothic adaptations. Or the Silver Age of horror; which mainly included Hammer Horror films. This mainly focuses on the Bronze Age; dated to the 1970’s and 80’s which saw fresh, ground-breaking horror largely based off original material.
It’s Halloween!! And this is the final edition of my October Horror-fon column. This one includes a prolifically murderous hotel room, an ultra-violent horror-thriller and a very original body horror.
Two more independent horrors released recently; including a violent supernatural thriller and a home invasion chiller. Both have been well received by critics, but have somehow gone largely unnoticed by most mainstream audiences. Then there is the latest offering from the largely poorly received Platinum Dunes studio, a much improved prequel to the poorly received haunted house horror Ouija.
Three more modern underrated horror films for October Horror-fon. This time there is a classic English ghost story with a twist, a psychological chiller set in an abandoned insane asylum and a very dark Irish possession story.
One horror fan, a whole heap of films….Richard takes on the Friday the 13th franchise.
This is the final entry in my Friday the 13th marathon and deals with the films outside the 80’s slasher heyday. Paramount and New Line Cinema were desperate to agree to terms for a crossover film between Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street. This led to two more sequels that lost all continuity in the series, the crossover itself and a re-imagining of the first four films.
One horror fan, a whole heap of films….Richard takes on the Friday the 13th franchise.
Despite the clear attempt to end the franchise in the last installment, an attempt was made to take the series in a new direction and the series took on a more supernatural theme.
One horror fan, a whole heap of films….Richard takes on the Friday the 13th franchise
The Friday the 13th franchise consists of twelve films (with a thirteenth being filmed now) focusing mainly on Jason Voorhees, a machete wielding, hockey masking wearing killing machine. The first film on the series was created to cash-in on the huge success of John Carpenter’s horror masterpiece Halloween. It went on to have a huge impact and spawned numerous sequels and even more imitators. This entry deals with the first four which came out during the slasher film heyday of the early 80’s and have their own chronology.
Three more horror films to get you started for Halloween! A twisted blood sport actually set on Halloween, another old-school werewolf film and a psychological horror that will give you the chills.
Three independent horror films to kick off October in the build-up to Halloween. This list includes an unconventional ghost story, a gloriously old-school werewolf film and a deadly anthology grindhouse horror.
This year has seen two utterly pointless re-makes, first Ben-Hur hit theatres, in a shameless cash-grab exercise and next is this re-make of the classic 1960 western The Magnificent Seven. Itself an American update of the 1954 Japanese epic Seven Samurai, an arguably more timeless and enduring piece of film-making. The plot this time is about seven gunfighters who are hired to protect a small mining town from a corrupt industrialist and his band of ruthless mercenaries.
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