Well, that’s it for this Halloween. Below we’ve got
a complete list of the Halloween Countdown reviews,
as well as links to all other Halloween themed movie
reviews we’ve done in the past. We follow that up
with questions for you readers about this little
event, and if you want similar things in the future.
Halloween Review– Halloween (1978)
This 1978 film kick-started the slasher films of the 1980s and 90s– but don’t hold that against it. Despite its foul progeny– including its own insultingly stupid sequels– Halloween works.
Halloween Review – “The Birds”
And the first feature begins…
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Halloween Review– Bag of Crushed Child
Ooh…. So it’s one party and one local bar later. We went as Lex Luthor and Catwoman. Almost immediately, we ran into Superman and Batman. “Well, this is a tense moment,” I said. Somehow, it all suits this next review.
“Put out an APB on all suspicious Bags of Crushed Children!”
It started as a joke. Scott Slemmons wrote a gag review of a non-existent low-budget ’70s horror film and posted it online. Then someone actually went and made the film, and it’s our short feature for Halloween ’04.
Halloween Review – “Lonesome Ghosts”
It’s Halloween, the final day of our Halloween
countdown. For something really special, we’ve
chosen to give you a complete lineup, much like you’d
get at the drive-in. First, a cartoon. Next, a
short film. Finally, things wrap up with a Halloween
double feature of full length movies. Enjoy.
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Weekly DVD Picks
The releases for this week (November 2) are below.
In other news, the release date for the fifth and
final season of Angel has just been
announced as February 15.
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Halloween Review – “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”
And now, top of the classic horror movie monsters, in his own most faithful adaptation yet, I give you….”Bram Stoker’s Dracula”.
Halloween Review – “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”
A truly classic movie for this – and every – Halloween season – “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”!
Halloween Review – “Nosferatu (1922)”
This, the first (and unauthorized) adaptation of
Bram’s Stoker’s Dracula, was also the
inspiration for Shadow of the Vampire, and
one of the early expressionist films.
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Dwarf hominid fossil found on Indonesian island
A hitherto unknown fossil hominid lived on a remote island, possibly surviving to the beginning of recorded history, while our ancestors spread across the world. Nicknamed a “hobbit,” the small hominid had only one-third our brain capacity. Some anthropologists, like University of Pittsburgh’s Jeffrey Schwartz, dispute whether the little guys, who appear to have used tools and built fires, belong in Homo, but Homo floresiensis remains a major discovery. Details here