While I was born too late to have watched them when they came out, even in syndication I was always more of an Addams Family fan than a Munsters fan, catchy theme song not withstanding. The reboot did seem interesting enough to catch my attention, but is it strong enough as a film without being able to draw on nostalgia?
Category Archives: Movies
October Countdown: The Velvet Vampire
We often include a Hammer Horror film or cult film in our October countdown: this one almost qualifies for the first category and definitely suits the second. The Corman factory decided to cash in on the success of Hammer’s contemporaneous vampire films with softcore erotic elements. Stephanie Rothman, the rare woman among the era’s exploitation filmmakers, co-wrote and directed this frequently interesting but tonally incoherent flick about a young couple invited to stay with a mysterious woman, Diane LeFanu (Celeste Yarnall), who is…. gosh, see if you can guess:
(a) a vampire
(b) bisexual
(c) all of the above
(d) it’s (c), right? Is it (c)? I bet it’s (c)!
1962 – Lawrence of Arabia
October Review: Howard’s Mill (2021)
Like a down-home Bermuda Triangle, an abandoned patch of land outside a small town in rural Tennessee becomes the site of several unexplained disappearances. Will an intrepid crew of low-budget filmmakers solve the mysteries, or be the next to vanish?
October Review: Werewolf By Night (2022)
Marvel’s first major steps onto the cinematic stage came with 1998’s Blade. 24 years later, the MCU is revisiting the era of horror comics that Blade came from, with the first major on-screen appearance of Jack Russell… the Werewolf By Night.
October Review: X (2022)
Ti West’s deranged and frequently effective horror movie concerns a group of amateur filmmakers who rent a remote farmhouse to shoot a low-budget porn film.
Unfortunately for them, they’re characters in an entirely different kind of movie.
Bureau 42 October Review – Child’s Play (1988)
The Child’s Play franchise all started here, with the first movie of a franchise as unkillable as the antagonist. Did the origin warrant two an a half decades of follow ups the way Clive Barker’s offering did?
If the review of an old style web page doesn’t sounds like the opinion you are looking for, you should also check in with Kris and Dave at The Nerd Byword. Each year they feature a handful of horror movie’s for their Nerd Nightmare and horror enthusiast Dave makes self-admitted ‘fraidy-cat’ Kris watch and review. Child’s Play’s episode drops October 3rd.
Bureau 42 October Review – Hellraiser (1987)
Our first review has been mouldering for twenty five years, as Clive Barker made his name with Hellraiser. Spawning nine sequels, a reboot due this week, a series in development, and multiple prose and graphic novels, Bureau 42 starts its reviews with the movie that started the crazy. Does this puzzlebox leave us craving more and more?
If the review of an old style web page doesn’t sounds like the opinion you are looking for, you should also check in with Kris and Dave at The Nerd Byword. Each year they feature a handful of horror movie’s for their Nerd Nightmare and horror enthusiast Dave makes self-admitted ‘fraidy-cat’ Kris watch and review. Hellraiser’s episode drops October 3rd.
October Reviews 2022
Once a year on a spooky night
It’s Hallowe’en, and what a fright!
Young boys and ghouls, in ghoulish disguise
They cover their skin, conceal their eyes
A grave mistake to be out
When the ghosts are about
It’s Hallowe’en… our time to be afraid!
– North American Halloween Prevention Inc.
October has arrived again, and we’re counting down to Halloween with our annual assortment of ghoulish grotesqueries. Some are shockingly brand new– while others have been mouldering in their graves a while, ready to creep out and bring screams to the screens once more.
Check out this year’s crop of nightmare offerings with Bureau 42’s October Reviews:
Oct. 1: Hellraiser (1987)
Oct. 2: Child’s Play (1988)
Oct. 8: X (2022)
Oct: 15: Werewolf by Night (2022)
Oct. 22: Howard’s Mill (2021)
Oct. 29: The Velvet Vampire (1971)
Oct. 31: Nope (2022) and The Munsters (2022)