Really Awful Movies

Child’s Play

In The Horror of It All: One Moviegoer’s Love Affair with Masked Maniacs, Frightened Virgins, and the Living Dead, author Adam Rockoff asked, “Why is Halloween loved but Friday the 13th despised?” One word. Blood. Critics love restraint and Child’s Play is mostly bloodless too. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t bloodcurdling. Roger Ebert, whose antipathy to horrorContinue reading “Child’s Play”

8 Scary Horror Movie Imaginary Friends

Anytime someone sees something in a horror film someone else cannot — that’s fodder for fright, whether it’s a chimerical figure, a portal to hell, a creature in the woods, or yes, imaginary friends. It was once a consensus in psychiatric circles that kids (it’s usually kids) with imaginary friends were mentally disturbed introverts who needContinue reading “8 Scary Horror Movie Imaginary Friends”