Trey and Blaine are joined by Paul Spataro, host of Is It Jaws? for a crossover episode that appears in both podcast feeds this weekend.
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Movie Review: The Craft: Legacy
The Craft was a 90’s movie showing us the horror of what happens of teen girls misuse witchcraft. Since Hollywood has run out of ideas, someone found this and decided to remake it with new kids. The kids actually look like kids, (though admittedly it could be because I am an old man now.) I went in fairly blind, so there were at least one or two surprised directions things went in for me. Very little of the movie was original, but they were the expected twists from other types of movies rather than the standard “teen witches” twists. That is to say, it wasn’t that things were surprising, it was surprising they were being done in The Craft. Overall, what has Blumhouse conjured up?
1939 – “You Can’t Take It With You”
Frank Capra’s next win is also a strong film with a truly stellar cast.
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“Halloween is Canceled”
Okay, this short film by Andrew Kasch won’t appeal to everyone, but that’s the nature of horror movies:
October Countdown: Rosemary’s Baby
This 1968 film, based on the novel by Ira Levin (reviewed below), emerged from a particular place and time, but it retains its power and its influence on pop culture cannot be denied.
It’s not a horror movie in the conventional sense, but it certainly suits this season.
October Countdown: Color Out of Space (2019)
October has developed the name “Spooky Season” this year, but this movie, from a story who created an entire genre of horror goes beyond Spooky to horrifying.
A podcast was describing the acting of Nicholas Cage, and had mentioned this film. During a discussion with some friends, it was mentioned that Color Out of Space was a Lovecraft story, and that was enough to peak my interest, as Lovecraft is a well respected figure in the horror genre, and I enjoy Nicholas Cage’s antics. While I am not typically a horror movie fan, I wanted to give this one a shot, and as October is a month for it, we get a Bureau 42 review from it as well!
October Countdown: Cry of the Werewolf (1944)
When we think of werewolf films– at least, those from before an era where sexy beasts populate YA novels and their spin-off series– we’re likely thinking either of old-school horror (The Wolfman, Werewolf of London) or later cult classics tinged with humour (An American Werewolf in London, Ginger Snaps).
For this week’s Halloween Countdown, we’re examining two less-well-known works, and we’re starting in 1944, which heard the Cry of the Werewolf.
October Countdown: Silver Bullet (1985)
Stephen King’s astonishing oeuvre gets raided regularly by Hollywood, resulting in cinematic gems and absolute turkeys. Silver Bullet hits a mark between the two. Our second lycanthropic throwback for this week’s Halloween Review features redneck hero Gary Busey, lost boy Corey Haim, and Canadian icon Megan Follows in a small town that has come to fear the full moon….
Film Review: Mandy (2018)
I’m starting off our Halloween Countdown with the second film from the director of Beyond the Black Rainbow.
October Countdown: 2020
Awoooooo!
We should have had the Best Halloween Ever this year. October 31, 2020 falls on a Saturday with a full moon, a triple convergence that will not happen again for a long, long time. It’s also both a blue moon and a Hunter’s moon, though neither is uncommon when the full moon coincides with All Hallows Eve and Samhain. As a bonus, in many places in the northern hemisphere, the time is changing during the Witching Hours to Daylight Savings, providing everyone with some borrowed time. We’d planned a party, which we’ve had to cancel. I imagined visiting a local haunted attraction or Pumpkin Patch in the afternoon, and then an evening of ghoulishly groovy tunes whilst the costumed kids trampled fallen leaves and begged for candy, and our good-naturedly crazed neighbour ran his charity haunted house, complete with a maniac running after people, chainsaw in hands.
Instead, we have a lingering pandemic, and an American election that is proving scarier than any disease. And where one of the candidates has tested positive for the disease he’s spent a year downplaying.
Since 2020 keeps growing stranger, no one should be especially surprised that some guy dressed like the Incredible Hulk just vandalized Donald Trump’s star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
One tradition continues unabated. The Bureau-cats run our annual October Countdown, which this year sees little in the way of new horrors. We will, however, unearth some excellent views (and one read) to chill and delight you….