Last night I actually went out of my way to watch Mortuary, a Tobe Hooper blunder from 2005 starring Denise Crosby as a single mother who takes a job as a mortician and moves with her two children to an old house attached to the mortuary. While it’s better than some of the cheap horror…
Category: Horror Movies
Horror movies
The horror… the horror…
A month or so ago, Jennifer and I saw a commercial on the Science Fiction Channel for a horror movie called Dead and Deader. It was a zombie movie, and as a zombie fan, I was obligated to watch this film. It was predictably awful, but some good came of it; after watching it I…
Staying true to the mythology
I love horror movies. I’m not entirely sure why, but I do. Nobody is quite surprised when I tell them this; if I tell someone that I like horror movies, the usual response is, “Meh. Figures.” I like werewolves, supernatural killers, ghosts, ghouls, and all that (except for vampires; I have an irrational prejudice against…
Slipping to the Dark Side
Okay, I admit… I’m a fan of horror fiction and movies. I enjoy the genre, and I know it pretty well (to the point where I overhead a brief conversation between two co-workers and could tell, based on one single sentence, which movie they were talking about and which version). And when I worked at…