Last Plane to Jakarta (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
OK, people, this is yr uncharacteristic non-music-even-havin'-anything-to-do-with post, but desperate times/desperate measures, etc. Seems Stacie Ponder, one of my favorite writers online (I refuse to say "favorite bloggers") who's also a regular at the AMC blog, got the notion to have a "who's the best final girl?" poll. It's a good question - the Final Girl as an archetype is loaded with all kinds...
Blogcritics: Video (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Knock-Knock. Who's there...? “Because you were home”—that’s the pragmatic explanation a masked psychotic butcher, one of a trio of aspiring coed murderers, softly and matter-of-factly provides when frantically asked by the captured Kristen McKay (Liv Tyler), and her boyfriend James Hoyt (Scott Speedman), why the trifecta is terrorizing the...
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Forgotten Films is a semi-regular feature where we explore interesting movies that have fallen off the radar or slipped through the cracks over the years. Back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, there was always a pretty limited selection of VHS tapes in the sci-fi and horror section at my local video store. If you [...]
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Tobe Hooper's Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is one of the big horror classics. It was made on a low budget, but direction, cinematography, the use of highly effective sounds, and the realistic cast are all mixed into a deadly cocktail. Early in the film, the main characters pick up a hitchhiker somewhere in the American South. It's an experience they won't easily forget, but also won't have to live with...
Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
Salem’s Lot (1979) Director: Tobe Hooper By Roderick Heath When I was four years old, a TV station advertised this miniseries using the unusual touch of excerpting nearly a whole scene, one in which the monstrous vampire Barlow (Reggie...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
October 31, 2008Search The politics of horror Image 1 of 10 | | By Patrick Kevin DayThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1974By the early 1970s, the image of hippies and the counterculture had skewed from flower children to Weathermen riots and Charles Manson's creepy ?family.? Playing on the fears evoked by twisting traditional family values, director Tobe Hooper gave audiences a bizarre family of cannibalistic...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
William Friedkin's The Exorcist has been voted the best horror film ever made in a new Halloween poll.The 1973 thriller, based on William Peter Blatty's book, topped ...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
Here it is, the original and best: a genuinely scary movie, and so thoroughly inappropriate for the larky mood of Halloween. Hideo Nakata's 1998 horror film Ring, though influenced by Tobe Hooper's 1982 something-in-the-TV-set nightmare Poltergeist, was an instant and original classic. It spawned a raft of remakes, similar films and spoofs, and heralded an influential Japanese horror mythology that...
ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Call this one: Tribute to a Face. This veiny blue monstrosity, the icon of Tobe Hooper's TV adaptation of Stephen King's best-seller Salem's Lot, took the Max Schreck template from Murnau's Nosferatu to its hideous endpoint. Crooked fangs, desiccated...
DOS HERMANOS (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
Here is a little warning for any of you who may decided to come and spend some time in LA LA Land. Never, and I mean never start a conversation about sushi. Never. Bugger me can they bore the arse off you about it and how good it is here and how bad it is in the rest of the world (Japan, anyone?) particularly New York a place with which the people of The City of Angels seem to
The Film Fiend (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
Don't mess with Petey. Since I seem to be the only person on the entire planet who absolutely adores Gabe Bartalos' seriously wapred 2004 head game Skinned Deep, I figured it was time to sit down and discuss this unfairly underrated B-movie classic. How anyone can despise a film which features a man with an enormous brain running naked through New York City, a killer with some seriously sadistic
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
October is my favorite month of the year. Stores stock up on candy and fake blood as horror geeks like myself prepare for a month of haunted houses and horror films. I began my Halloween extravaganza by attending Universal Studios Hollywood’s sixth annual Eyegore Horror Awards, where they honored such icons as director Tobe Hooper [...]
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
DVD Video Review: Second sight package up all the goodies from the recent Dark Sky Blu-ray with a standard def transfer from the same hi-def source. We review the forthcoming dvd release...
Moon in the Gutter (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
High-Def Digest: All Hig (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
I have a completely irrational, unfailing love for 'Poltergeist.' It was my favorite film as a kid, so much so that I saw it about six times in the theater and watched it incessantly on HBO. Here was a...
