What a cracking film to start my 31 Days of Halloween with. This is a British film which stars Bette Davis as a nanny for a family living in London in which a young boy has been sent away for supposedly killing his sister. The boy is due to be released after two years and …
Continue reading Day 1- 31 Days of Halloween- The Nanny (1965)
Every day in October I will be reviewing a different horror film. Some of the criteria I've used for the choice of films are - a film from each decade from the 1920s onwards - films from a number of different countries - a Friday the 13th film as within October this year the 13th falls on a Friday!!! …
Tales From The Crypt was released in 1972- a horror movie made up of five different tales of terror. One of these vignettes was '...And All Through The House' a Christmas based story regarding a woman who has just bumped off her hubby for his insurance. But she has more to content with...You can watch …
One of the few Dario Argento films I haven't seen. Until now that is. And what a treat! A rock drummer notices that hes being watched by a mysterious stranger. He confronts this person in an abandoned opera house and after disarming him of a knife accidentally stabs him. This is all witnessed a photographed …
Continue reading Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971) -Day 17 – 31 Days of Halloween
An intelligent, original horror film is as rare as hen's teeth nowadays. Hollywood seems content on remaking, rehashing and plundering the past glories of the genre with predictably mediocre and overexplained results. Let The Right One In is one of those rare gems however. Set in snow laden 80s Sweden this is the story of …
Continue reading Let The Right One In – Day 14 – 31 Days of Halloween
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