Me: It’s time to talk about Amityville. Whatcha got? Jay: I actually watched the sequel to The Amityville Horror before I saw the first one. It’s a better movie, the sequel, but the 1978 Amityville Horror was good. The sequel was definitely scarier though. There are moments in the first one, like the scene with […]
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31 Days of Horror Remakes: A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 vs 2010
CATEGORY: 31 Days of Halloween, 31 Days of Horror, cinema, cinephile, classic horror, couch potato, film & tv, films, horror, horror movies, horror remakes, modern horror, movies
Me: I know we’re starting to sound like the old broken record here but… A Nightmare on Elm Street has to go to the original, right? Jay: Right. Me: Because the new Freddy sucks? Jay: Well, Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy didn’t have anywhere near the charisma of Robert Englund. The new Nancy was okay […]
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31 Days of Horror Remakes: Night of the Living Dead 1968 vs 1990
CATEGORY: 31 Days of Halloween, 31 Days of Horror, cinephile, classic horror, couch potato, film & tv, films, horror, horror remakes, modern horror, movies, zombies
Me: I’m excited to get started on this list because I’ve been having so much fun rewatching some of these movies. I’m also glad Night of the Living Dead was such an obvious choice because narrowing down the shortlist has been tough! Jay: It’s rare for any remake to be better than the original, but […]
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31 Days of Horror Remakes: The Longlist
CATEGORY: cinephile, classic horror, couch potato, films, horror movies, horror remakes, modern horror, movies, tv & film
This list was a lot easier to make than you’d expect. While we had to hunt down trailers for some of the movies on Wikipedia’s list of horror movie remakes because somehow neither of us had ever heard of them (a rare thing – we’re horror freaks, after all,) most triggered responses of “Good one,” […]
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31 Days of… Horror Remakes
CATEGORY: 31 Days of Horror, cinema, cinephile, classic horror, couch potato, film & tv, films, halloween, horror, horror movies, horror remakes, modern horror, movies
The countdown to Halloween has begun. Here at Castle Vanian, that means two things: busting out the decorations and horror movie marathons! We’ve done classic horror and we’ve done modern horror. What’s left? Plenty! Starting with… Horror remakes! And it all started because I didn’t know Thir13en Ghosts was a remake – which led to […]
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