New Year’s Evil

When a creepy caller phones into a pledge drive show and says “I’m going to commit murder” (admitttedly, we’ve all contemplated this when PBS incessantly interrupts its programming for one of their interminable pledge-drives) we know we’re dialing up a typical slasher flick. New Year’s Evil combines the hospital massacring of well, Hospital Massacre withContinue reading “New Year’s Evil”

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”