Tag Archives: horror

208. Let the Right One In (2008)

Posted on November 3, 2011 by slinkywhite

Twelve year-old Oskar is a lonely, bullied little boy, until he meets Eli, a mysterious and eccentric girl, who moves in next door. A spate of bloody murders in the town seem to coincide with her arrival with her guardian, … Continue reading →

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196. The Fog (1980)

Posted on October 4, 2011 by slinkywhite

The small fishing town on Antonio Bay is celebrating its centenary, when odd things start happening – phones ringing at the same time, lights going on and off, and most mysteriously, a huge fog bank out to sea, that seems … Continue reading →

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190. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Posted on September 8, 2011 by slinkywhite

Waif-like Rosemary and her husband Guy move into the creepy, gothic Bramford building. Rosemary soon makes friends with a young woman, Terry, who lives with an elderly couple, Roman and Minnie Castevet, in the apartment next door. When returning after … Continue reading →

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184. The Skin I Live In (2011)

Posted on September 2, 2011 by slinkywhite

I am always partial to a Pedro Almodóvar film, even if one of my friends refers to them as no better than ‘melodramatic claptrap’. I am beginning to wonder what he’d make of this, possibly the maddest of all Almodóvar’s movies… Like a … Continue reading →

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176. Cloverfield (2008)

Posted on July 21, 2011 by slinkywhite

Monster movies are a very hit and miss affair – for every Jaws, there’s a Megashark, and for every King Kong, there’s a man in an ape costume… The best monster movie rule is that the film is often better … Continue reading →

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166. Godzilla (1998)

Posted on July 3, 2011 by slinkywhite

I have to admit to a certain fondness to the Japanese Godzilla movies from the 50s and 60s, but although this is a bit slick and Hollywood, it still maintains the cheesy horror sci-fi of the originals. Most of the … Continue reading →

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160. The Vault of Horror (1973)

Posted on July 3, 2011 by slinkywhite

Five men take a lift, which takes them to a basement room, but without a button to call the lift back. Resigned to the fact they may be there for a while, they take advantage of the situation, by making … Continue reading →

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155. M (1931)

Posted on June 19, 2011 by slinkywhite

The opening scene of this German Expressionist film has children singing about a murderer and the black, foreboding tone is set from the start. A number of children have gone missing around Berlin, and posters warn people to be on … Continue reading →

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152. The War of the Worlds (1953)

Posted on June 19, 2011 by slinkywhite

Another alien horror, but in this, the creepy invaders are not gory and scary, as much as just plain evil. When a meteor falls in small-town America, the locals are more curious about the crater it makes. But within the … Continue reading →

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151. The Thing (1982)

Posted on June 19, 2011 by slinkywhite

I am usually of the opinion that the best horrors are the ones in your own imagination. Of course, there are exceptions to the rule – and 1979’s Alien springs to mind. Alien pre-dated The Thing by three years,  and … Continue reading →

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