Rodney Anonymous Tells You How To Live
Serving the terminally bored since 1997
By now I hope you trust my taste in Horror films enough to believe me when I tell you that one of the most disturbing Horror films that you will ever see is, in fact, a documentary.
Much love to Rodney Ascher (the other Rodney A.) for crafting a flick that actually sent chills down my spine. What starts off as a study of sleep paralysis shifts gear when the participants begin to discuss “The Hat Man”.
Good luck getting to sleep.
Gotda light?
We touched upon Atomic Age Horror yesterday, so I wanted to take a minute to tip my hat to one of the scariest things I’ve watched in the last decade: episode 8 of “Twin Peaks: The Return”. What this episode lacks in dialogue (it goes for nearly a half hour without a single word being spoken) it more than makes up for in disturbing imagery.
This is the water, and this is the well. Drink full, and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes, and dark within.
When most people think of Atomic Age Horror they tend to think of giant ants, giant spiders, and giant lizards.
Although it’s set in the 1950s, “The Vast of Night” is not a homage to the cheesy films of that era. Oh no; this is something REALLY different. This is something REALLY smart. And this is something REALLY creepy.
There’s always room for Giallo
This movie is so seriously messed up that several of the kills in “Twitch of the death Nerve” have been recreated in other movies. And by “other movies” I don’t mean “Disney Princess movies”, although that would be kind of sweet.
“The brain sees what it wants to see.”
It’s day twenty-five of 31 Days of Halloween and you look like you’re ready for a really good ghost story. In fact, you look like you NEED a good ghost story. Well, you’re in luck because “Ghost Stories” contains three tales of the unnatural. Also, it features Bilbo Baggins, himself: Martin Freeman.
This is a wonderfully smart-but-not-snooty Horror movie which, unlike The Hobbit Trilogy, stands up well upon repeated watching.
In two hours we want thirty of you dead. If thirty of you are not dead, we will end sixty of your lives ourselves. Five, four, three, two, one. Begin.
Sometimes, during your month of Horror movie watching, you just need a thriller as a sort of palate cleanser.
If you were to combine “Office Space” with “Battle Royale” you would get a film akin to 2016’s “The Belko Experiment”. I think I may have recommended this minor masterpiece, which was penned by James Gunn, in the past. If I did, apologies, but I’m recommending it again.
You can do more with Margaret or Helena. Or Anne or Angelina
– Lyrics from the song “Katrina”
That didn’t age well, did it?
We should all be thankful that Bing Crosby (of Crosby, Pills, Hash, and Drugs) took a little time off from beating his son Gary in order record the songs and narration for this Disney Classic.
All snark aside, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is a great way to introduce your kids to the joys of Spooky Season.
31 Days of Halloween
Day Twenty-Two: Unwelcome (2023)
As long as urbanites keep relocating to rural communities, we’ll never run out of Horror movies.
“Unwelcome” is a cinematic BLT: Brutality, Lunacy, and Terror. Sandwiched between the brutality of the opening act and the terror of the closing scenes is a heaping helping of weirdness.
If you love practical effects and the idea of seeing Chief Miles O’Brien play a horrible human being, this is the movie for you.
It’s time for a little made-for-TV madness!
From the late Dan Curtis, the man who brought you “Dark Shadows”, “Trilogy of Terror”, and “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” comes “The Norliss Tapes” – a failed pilot for a TV series that I can’t help but think would’ve been amazing had it been given the greenlight.
Watch it for free on YouTube!
P.S. Cheer up, Jim Jordan. Sometimes even Big league ball players sometimes crap their pants attempting to slide into 3rd base.
I’m not a huge fan of Kaiju movies, although I did love 2006’s “The Host”. But that’s about it. So I had to dig pretty deep in order to find a Kaiju film I felt was worth recommending.
“Underwater” (Currently steaming on Hulu) is a Kaiju movie with a twist – a real “Well, I did not see that coming twist.” And that twist isn’t that this is a giant monster movie starring that woman from “Twilight” and that guy from “Black Swan”. Although, to be fair, I did not see that coming.