You know how sometimes you almost hate-watch a movie? Knowing it isn't going to live up to your hopes but hoping it proves you wrong? Watching because you feel compelled because you watched the previous entry. That's where I am with HORROR IN THE HIGH DESERT 2 - hate watching a movie I was going… Continue reading HORROR IN THE HIGH DESERT 2 – MINERVA – Found Footage Review
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MISTER CREEP – found footage review
It's interesting when you see how many found footage films are about people making documentaries about something and getting in over their heads. Like, are that many people MAKING docs these days? I guess in this case it's 'true crime' and that's a big 'thing' lately so...maybe? I guess? For MR. CREEP I credit them… Continue reading MISTER CREEP – found footage review
Nuance
When we’re kids we don’t understand the concept of nuance. We don’t get that the world is made up of gradients of gray and is rarely black and white. We need that black and white though, need to learn first that there is a difference between acts that are good and acts that are bad. … Continue reading Nuance
The Spooky Chris Podcast – Horror Updates
In which I talk about going to horror cons and seeing some newer horror movies. Theme by Ross Grimson https://spookychris.com/haunted-bookstore/
They’re Dead, They’re All Messed Up
When it comes to horror it seems as if it has been dissected and bisected and pulled apart and examined under the brightest lights. Every movie that comes out is part of a subgenre or a subsubgenre. It falls into this category or is dropped into that bucket. When it comes to horror, we fans… Continue reading They’re Dead, They’re All Messed Up
The Doom Of Geekdom
I was a STAR WARS kid growing up. I had the toys, I loved the movies, and I imagined that universe and its people all of the time. I wondered what Episodes 1, 2, and 3 might be (since we started, it turned out, with part 4) and wondered where it’d all lead. I don’t… Continue reading The Doom Of Geekdom
NIGHTLIGHT – “found footage”/POV movie review
OK, this is a ‘found footage’ in that it’s done in the same style but it’s not a found footage movie for real-real, one of the many frustrating things that the film has to offer. While this is not really found footage I am calling it that because of the style and presentation. It’s wearing… Continue reading NIGHTLIGHT – “found footage”/POV movie review
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Slashing
Despite the side eyed looks the films in the slasher subgenre get, these are some of the most fun, and most daring of the horror film genre. At their worst they are pure popcorn fun. Prudish fantasies full of sex and violence that are clumsily warning teens against the sins of flesh. At their highest… Continue reading Slashing
Smaller, and Smaller, and Smaller
With another Marvel movie release there are more naysayers that speak of the glut of Marvel and superhero films and the weariness some find in these movies. To me it’s silly because these are a subgenre now standing between action movies and sci-fi movies. They have proven themselves and they’re here. I get it, folks… Continue reading Smaller, and Smaller, and Smaller
The Slippery Real
Boy, oh boy did that slippery slope we have all been navigating suddenly turn into a water flume ride. WHOOSH! Down we go. It was bad enough when we had to start contending with the new breed of gaslighters who did it for profit and power alone. Bad actors that weaponized misinformation in ways never… Continue reading The Slippery Real
Leave It
There’s something a bit macabre and unnerving in the need to whitewash, for lack of a better term, fiction and ‘art’ of any sort. While civilization and attitudes and beliefs should (should, I say) be more malleable, ‘fact’ and history should be set in stone. You don’t have to like it or agree with it… Continue reading Leave It
THE DEATH OF APRIL – found footage review
I say it all the time but man alive do I love it when filmmakers tackle a style of found footage and keep to it. I love when they take that level of seriousness in hand and see it through. Much of the time this happens you end up seeing a more compelling film. Not… Continue reading THE DEATH OF APRIL – found footage review
The Spooky World of Chris Ringler 