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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.

31 Days of Halloween: Crafty Clown

I had seen the iconography: the garish grin of Frendo the Clown, the blood-slicked corn stalks, the whisper of menace in the wind. No trailers, no teasers—just the cover art, like a dare. One idle afternoon, I accepted that dare.

31 Days of Halloween: Fear the Folly

Ah, my dear connoisseurs of the strange and the peculiar, allow me to regale you with the tale of Killer Klowns from Outer Space, a film as preposterous as its title and as entertaining as its colorful, cosmic carnival of chaos suggests.

31 Days of Halloween: Grave Encounters

In the solitude of shadowy corridors of the long-abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, the careless and hapless crew of the paranormal reality show “Grave Encounters” embarks on what they believe will be the team’s most thrilling and captivating episode yet.

31 Days of Halloween: To Haunt or Not to Haunt

Ah, dear spectators of the macabre, allow me to guide you through the somber corridors of The Orphanage (2013).