Pledge Night

Uh oh, another fraternity prank gone wrong! It’s absolutely vital for a slasher movie to have a backstory, so that an hour of indiscriminate killing can have a point. That’s opposed to slashers without a backstory, which merely have an hour plus of indiscriminate killing. Key distinction. Pledge Night is the story of the ill-fatedContinue reading “Pledge Night”

Terror Train

Roger Ebert said this of scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis in 1980: At this point…if she should get a straight role in a conventional movie, she might start screaming and running away from the camera just on reflex.” Eeb sure could turn a phrase but he frequently turned on horror – at best, offering back-handedContinue reading “Terror Train”