by K Hogaboom | Oct 16, 2018 | article
It is hard to overstate the brilliance of this early John Carpenter effort, and the influence it had on the modern slasher film. It isn’t the first film of its kind nor the best, but it is masterfully made (on a small budget with a small crew and tight schedule)...
by K Hogaboom | Oct 3, 2018 | blog
A winter night fraternity hazing goes awry, finding young Alana (Jamie Lee Curtis) unwittingly party to initiate Kenny’s nervous breakdown (Derek MacKinnon). Flash forward a year later and Alana is still dating her jerk of a boyfriend Mo (Timothy Webber ), who...
by K Hogaboom | Jun 15, 2018 | featured
Spies, slashers, space battles, and spooks! This week’s roster was a well-balanced aperitif, if it led to a bit of gastroenteritis. – K. The Amazing Mr. X (1948) Gaslight (1940) meets The Uninvited (1944), this film is weirdly good. That is if you like...
by K Hogaboom | Feb 5, 2018 | featured
There is so much I enjoy about slasher films, but it is a genre I rarely dip into due to often intolerable quantities of misogyny, transmisogyny, homophobia, and ugly racist tropes. Every now and then a slasher is tame enough on these fronts I find it bearable to...
by K Hogaboom | Apr 11, 2017 | blog
A rude, driven stage director (is there any other kind in horror films?) locks his production indoors to push them for a better performance. Mind, this is after one of the troupe was murdered five feet outside the doors of the playhouse, with the madman still on the...
