The Exorcist: Believer (2023)
Muddled philosophy, goofy makeup, Molly wants her money back
Episode 161: The Blair Witch Project
Oh my god I don't care, genius marketing, anti-climactic Stef (@witchxpudding), L (@nocturnical), Molly (@Night_TimeTea), & Al (@maybmockingbird) discuss one of the pioneers of the found footage genre, The Blair…
31daysofhorror, day 22: Silent Madness (1984)
Let’s bffr here, this movie is ridiculous. Due to a wildly incompetent mistake at a psychiatric facility, criminally insane Howard Johns is released instead of John Howard.
31daysofhorror, day 20: Mother’s Day (2010)
A group of really terrible friends get together for a night that should be super chill. Unfortunately, the owner of the house they’re in bought the house in foreclosure from an unhinged mom, who doesn’t know how to use a phone, and her equally unhinged adult sons and weirldy sheltered adult daughter.
#31daysofhorror, day 14: Two Evil Eyes (1990)
This is actually a compilation of two Poe short-story adaptations by George Romero and Dario Argento. The first of the two is Romero with “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,” which was a little goofy but fun.
#31daysofhorror day 6: Flesheater (1988)
Movies have different purposes. Some aspire to tell you a great story, to make you think about your own life & purpose on earth parallel to it, to delve into the great questions of our existence — some are just terribly acted vehicles for titties, not just a single pair but lots & lots of titties.
#31dayofhorror day 4: Case 347 (2020)
The focus in this movie is off. It feels as if the writers room speed-listened to every episode of Coast to Coast AM in subliminal form while consuming an inhuman amount of drugs.
#31daysofhorror day 3: 1408 (2007)
We continue last week’s theme of an absolutely insufferable main character with 1408, a psychological horror adapted from a Stephen King short story. & at least part of our disappointment with the film has to land on our expectations for King’s work & in some ways it’s typical of it.
#31daysofhorror day 2: Butterfly Kisses (2017)
In theory this should be a good movie, it has all the right components — a compelling urban legend, a feasible found-footage scenario, and passable character motivations. But the characters themselves are inconsistent & fail to really compel the watcher to believe in their stakes.