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Halloween Horror: Longlegs (2024)

Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs is an inconsistent mishmash of The Silence of the Lambs and Cure.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromOctober 31, 2024Osgood Perkins, Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee, Dakota Daulby, Kiernan Shipka, Longlegs, Halloween Horror, horrorComment

Halloween Horror: The Mist (2007)

Frank Darabont’s Stephen King horror adaptation plays like a dry run for The Walking Dead.

Halloween Horror: The Village (2004)

Shyamalan’s 2004 film has its merits, but revisiting it reveals the muddled philosophy that drives it and robs it of many key thrills.

Halloween Horror, Reviews, Flash BackAnders BergstromOctober 18, 2024M. Night Shyamalan, The Village, Halloween Horror, thriller, allegory, twist ending, Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrian Brody, William HurtComment

Halloween Horror: Doctor X (1932)

Michael Curtiz’s Doctor X demonstrates the perverse strangeness of pre-Code horror.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromNovember 13, 2023Doctor X, Halloween Horror, pre-Code horror, Michael Curtiz, Robert Tasker, Earl Baldwin, Terror, Howard W. Comstock, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy, Preston Foster, Lionel AtwillComment

Roundtable: Halloween Horror: Island of Lost Souls (1932)

The Brothers discuss Erle C. Kenton’s pre-Code horror adaptation of H. G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau.

Halloween Horror: Ranking the Films of the Final Destination Series

Anders ranks the films of the Final Destination series, one of the first horror franchises of the twenty-first century.

Halloween Horror, FeaturesAnders BergstromOctober 31, 2023Halloween Horror, horror, slasher, Final Destination, Devon Sawa, Ali LarterComment

Halloween Horror: The Haunted Mansion (2003)

Eddie Murphy’s The Haunted Mansion is an effective spooky movie for children and families.

Halloween Horror: The Witches (1990)

The Witches remains a notable blend of horror and adventure for kids, and the most surprising movie of Nicolas Roeg’s career.

Halloween Horror: The Fall of the House of Usher (1960)

Even more than Poe’s story, Corman’s version highlights familiar features of the Gothic.

Reviews, Halloween HorrorAnton BergstromOctober 6, 2023Roger Corman, The Fall of the House of Usher, horror, Halloween Horror, Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey, Harry Ellerbe, Gothic, Gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard MathesonComment

Halloween Horror: Hellraiser (2022)

David Bruckner’s Hellraiser reboot is a flattened riff on the tale for a flattened cinematic culture.

Halloween Horror: Ranking the Films of the Halloween Series

A ranking of each film in the iconic horror series, Halloween, which digs into the series’ strengths and weaknesses. Updated to include Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends.

Halloween Horror: Ranking the Films of the Hellraiser Series

Examining the 11 films in the Hellraiser franchise and exploring their shared thematic interests and narrative failings. Updated to include the 2022 reboot.

Halloween Horror, FeaturesAren BergstromOctober 31, 2022Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, Hellraiser: Bloodline, Hellraiser: Inferno, Hellraiser: Hellseeker, Hellraiser: Deader, Hellraiser: Hellworld, Hellraiser: Revelations, Hellraiser: Judgment, Halloween HorrorComment

Halloween Horror: Ranking the Films of The Exorcist Series

Anders looks at the five films in the Exorcist franchise and looks at how each one expands on the original.

Features, Halloween HorrorAnders BergstromOctober 28, 2022Halloween Horror, The Exorcist, William Friedkin, William Peter BlattyComment

Halloween Horror: The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

Roger Corman’s The Masque of the Red Death is more effective as a late-night Gothic thriller than as an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous short story.