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31 Days of Halloween: When the Wolfbane–

Truly, cheese was justly paired with wine—and cheese was exactly what I imagined I had found in a throwback horror film called House of the Wolf Man. I hung up my jacket, rolled up my sleeves…

31 Days of Halloween: Not Witch…but Why?

Beezel is a film that began with promise, with atmosphere, and with the creeping suggestion of something truly sinister. But

31 Days of Halloween: Unwelcome Guests

In the unfamiliar, shadowy recesses of a secluded vacation home, Bryan Bertino’s grizzly and ghastly “The Strangers” unfolds like an unsettling symphony of suspense and tangible terror.

31 Days of Halloween: Dark Corners

Dear readers, I invite you now to step behind the veil and peer into the whispered shadows of Boogeyman. Before my own viewing, I, too, had heard the whispers of mistrust surrounding this film.

31 Days of Halloween: New Path to Insidious

Twilight creeps forward as we step into the shadowy expanse of Insidious, a franchise that has solidified its presence within the annals of modern horror. Gather close as I unfold my thoughts on this series of four films that dance upon the precipice of dread and despair.

31 Days of Halloween: Violent Summer

I could tell by the look on my friend’s face that it was going to pose a challenge. And I, not one to duck a challenge, accepted.

31 Days of Halloween: Wicked Rectory

The film drifts through the history of the rectory, introducing us to the spectral players and the mortal investigators, like the famed Harry Price, who dared to scrutinize them. It is atmospheric, delightfully quirky, and at times, genuinely unsettling.

31 Days of Halloween: Ill-Fated Enterprise

In truth, I passed it by because found footage films had always seemed poorly crafted and watching it, a fruitless enterprise. Hell House LLC was surprising on a couple of levels. Before I get into that, let’s recoil backward to consider what it was all about.

31 Days of Halloween: Sinister Skin

Last year, in T. Glenn Bane’s 31 Days of Halloween, I dared to review an episode of Supernatural—the chilling tale of the Scarecrow. This year, I once again reach into that eerily underestimated medium of television and exhume a title from the twisted treasure trove of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps.

31 Days of Halloween: One! Two! Scream!

…there are certain cinematic outings that one does not anticipate, nor does one expect them to linger—neither for their virtues nor their faults. Dark Match (2024), directed by Lowell Dean, is precisely such an escapade.