There is something about the darkness that is as compelling as it is repulsive. Something primal and vibrant about the fact that in that empty space of black could be anything or nothing. It is the box of possibility both full and devoid of all things. We fear the dark because it takes away what… Continue reading THE BOOGEYMAN – 2023 review
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THE WHISPERING MAN – found footage review
Hello and here we are with another found footage film. Hooray! This time around we have a paranormal filmmaker with a serialized program online that inherits some things from his grandmother and among everything is a painting called The Whispering Man, cue the spooky music - DON'T CUE SPOOKY MUSIC, THIS IS FOUND FOOTAGE! The… Continue reading THE WHISPERING MAN – found footage review
Movie Sign
So while I have made two short films I have also written a few short films. Two of those I am going to shoot at some point, two I wrote for a friend who was going to see if he could get a couple filmmaker friends to adapt them. One was about a boy that… Continue reading Movie Sign
HORROR IN THE HIGH DESERT 2 – MINERVA – Found Footage Review
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
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 Spooky World of Chris Ringler 