A look back at Don’t Go in the House

Every late 70s and early 80s horror film seemed to have a prologue to explain away a killer’s motivations and to pick a nature/nurture side. Don’t Go in the House is no different, with young Donny’s abusive mama threatening to “burn the evil out” of him on the stove. With such an ugly upbringing it’sContinue reading “A look back at Don’t Go in the House”

Fatal Games

In Fatal Games (1984) someone is “stopping the nation’s top athletes…dead in their tracks.” And that someone is skulking around a janky, decrepit athletic academy which doesn’t look like it’d produce a decent Sunday Beer Leaguer let alone an Olympic-caliber athlete. Seriously. The sports field is full of weeds, the change rooms very Soviet/commie bloc,Continue reading “Fatal Games”