Lake Placid is about a killer crocodile (or two) but… I have to ask… do you think it’s safe to say the real killer in this movie is snark? I was just saying to my friend that we’d watched it, and he said he can’t resist Lake Placid when it’s on. I’m exactly the same. […]
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Castle Vanian Halloween Special: Top 5 Haunted House Movies
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Choosing just five movies for our list of best haunted house movies looked like a pretty daunting task when we started – which is ironic when you consider that was the very reason we swapped out werewolf movies for haunted houses. To make things easier on ourselves, we decided to rule out anything that wasn’t […]
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Castle Vanian Halloween Special: Haunted Houses: The Legend of Hell House (1973)
CATEGORY: 31 Days of Halloween, 31 Days of Horror, film & tv, film review, ghosts, haunted house, modern horror, movie review
It’s hard to go from the likes of Burnt Offerings, which had no atmosphere and no real horror, to The Legend of Hell House. They’re only, what, three years apart? I guess what I’m saying is that The Legend of Hell House proves that it was totally possibly to create terrifying supernatural terror without too […]
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Movie Review: Burnt Offerings (1976)
CATEGORY: 31 Days of Halloween, 31 Days of Horror, film & tv, film review, ghosts, haunted house, modern horror, movie review
Burnt Offerings (1976) is an excellent cast wasted on a mediocre movie. It stars such legends as Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis, Burgess Meredith, and Eileen Heckart. No movie with that kind of talent behind it can be terrible. As this movie proves, however, it doesn’t necessarily guarantee success. (There could be spoilers after […]
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Castle Vanian Halloween Special: TV Tuesday: Ghostwatch (1992)
CATEGORY: 31 Days of Halloween, 31 Days of Horror, film & tv, film review, ghosts, haunted house, modern horror, movie review
We spent an awful lot of time humming and hawing over this one. You suggested “The House that Bled to Death” from Hammer House ofHorror. I pushed for Rose Red. In the end, we dismissed them both – “The House that Bled to Death” because it wasn’t technically a haunting and Rose Red because it […]
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Castle Vanian Halloween Special: Haunted Houses: 1408 (2007)
CATEGORY: 31 Days of Halloween, 31 Days of Horror, film & tv, film review, ghosts, haunted house, modern horror, movie review
Wow. Just wow. 1408 was an Autopsy of Jane Doe movie for me. It came out of nowhere and hit hard. What were your first impressions, the first time you watched it? It’s a very clever movie. Is he going mad? Has he been drugged? As the movie goes on, and he thinks he’s gotten […]
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Movie Review: Séance (2021)
CATEGORY: 31 Days of Halloween, 31 Days of Horror, film & tv, film review, ghosts, haunted house, modern horror, movie review
Edelvine Ghost rise up to us… Even if the chant isn’t familiar, the game should be. A group of girls stand in front of a mirror in their school’s bathroom at an exact time to summon the ghost of a girl who killed herself there years before. It’s Bloody Mary with a twist. The twist? […]
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Castle Vanian Halloween Special: Haunted Houses: Ghost Ship (2002)
CATEGORY: 31 Days of Halloween, 31 Days of Horror, film & tv, film review, ghosts, haunted house, modern horror, movie review
Another early 2000s movie makes the list. Would you say it was a good time for horror? For this type of horror, yes. There were loads of films like The Haunting from the same era that didn’t even make it so you’ve got to count those as well. I think, with horror, it goes in […]
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A Song for Sunday: Halloween Special: Under Your Spell Playlist
CATEGORY: 31 Days of Halloween, A Song for Sunday, curses, halloween, magic, music, music is life, playlist, voodoo, witchcraft, witchesThis week’s A Song for Sunday Halloween Special post almost stumped me because we’ve been watching movies about witches and witchcraft but I already have a Witchy Women playlist on Spotify. So… what to do without repeating myself? What any good witch would do, of course: spellcasting. For this week’s ASfS’s Halloween Special, I give […]
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Castle Vanian Halloween Special: Haunted Houses: Thir13en Ghosts (2001)
CATEGORY: 31 Days of Halloween, 31 Days of Horror, film & tv, film review, ghosts, haunted house, modern horror, movie review
Thir13en Ghosts is one of my favourite horror movies. It’s got just the right blend or horror and humour that makes watching it a lot of fun. What are your thoughts on it? It’s exactly like you say, a lot of fun. Plus, it’s got a clever story. When I first saw Thir13en Ghosts, I […]
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