Horror – Page 98 – Really Awful Movies

The Crazies

The Crazies is the kale of horror movies. It’s not particularly exciting, but it’s good for you. Bio-horrors are a terrific social experiment where citizens have to band together to fight off an external force, usually a virus that threatens to kill us all. And to compound matters, communication has broken down, especially between thoseContinue reading “The Crazies”

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”