Category: horror

Nostalgia vault: When horror movie VHS’ haunted children across America!

ABC News’ 2020 took an in depth 1987 style look at VHS horror movies for rent–and how children across America were falling prey to their relentless atrocities..

If only they could see movies now, eh?

It was the decade of the Satanic Panic!! And movies, we were told, were going to destroy children!

Or at least that is what the main stream media was telling us..

ABC News’ 2020 took an in depth 1987 style look at VHS horror movies for rent–and how children across America were falling prey to their relentless atrocities..

Boy oh boy.. if only Barbara Walters was able to see what the future held when she introduced this segment on that fateful Friday night..

For some reason I feel that I, as a young child, watched this 20/20 special.. and then afterwards turned on Rhonda Shear’s UP all Night on USA NETWORK as she segwayed into a Friday the 13th or other horror movie…

SCREAM IS A HIT!

NOSTALGIA WINS AGAIN! Low Budget SCREAM 5 already making a profit

Children of the parents of the SCREAM generation have gone to the movies this weekend..

The newest installment in the SCREAM films is a hit..

Estimates now in, and the horror film will take the number one spot on the box office charts from “Spider-Man: No Way Home” as it meets pre-release projections with a $30.6 million 3-day/$35 million 4-day opening from 3,664 theaters on Martin Luther King weekend…

The return on investment will be decent too: SCREAM 5 was cheap to make. . It only cost $24 mil–which means it is already making profit.

Martin Luther King weekend seems to be a strong weekend for horror releases at the box office..

“Scream” is set to top the $32.6 million of Andy Muschietti’s “Mama” in 2013 while settling below the $46.5 million opening of M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass” in 2019.

Black Phone shifts

Scott Derrickson’s supernatural horror film The Black Phone was previously slated to hit theaters on February 4, 2022, but Universal Pictures announced today that the release of the film has now been pushed back to June 24, 2022.

There is no official word why the shift has occurred. However, the Omicron Variant and fears about crowd at movie theaters in the middle of winter might be playing into it.

DC FOLLIES: FREDDY GOES TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS!

Freddy Kreuger has made their his into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry over the years…

NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET is now entered.. the full list of those included in 2021:

  1. Ringling Brothers Parade Film (1902)
  2. Jubilo (1919)
  3. The Flying Ace (1926)
  4. Hellbound Train (1930)
  5. Flowers and Trees (1932)
  6. Strangers on a Train (1951)
  7. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
  8. Evergreen (1965)
  9. Requiem-29 (1970)
  10. The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
  11. Pink Flamingos (1972)
  12. Sounder (1972)
  13. The Long Goodbye (1973)
  14. Cooley High (1975)
  15. Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979)
  16. Chicana (1979)
  17. The Wobblies (1979)
  18. Star Wars Episode VI — Return of the Jedi (1983)
  19. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
  20. Stop Making Sense (1984)
  21. Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987)
  22. The Watermelon Woman (1996)
  23. Selena (1997)
  24. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  25. WALL•E (2008)

This is not the first time Freddy was in DC..

During the 80s during the show DC FOLLIES, Robert Englund as Freddy made a splash as a bartender for politician puppets..

Fangoria Screams

For better or worse, Famgoria magazine is putting a SCREAM on his cover for subscribers. The cover story APPEARS on newsstands , for those at least to still buy the magazine after all these years of technological advancements.

The cover is pretty cool, the imagery of the movie is front and center slashing the paper version of the magazine. But here again, the idea of magazines in general or not appreciated it in today’s timeline, but the nostalgia of this film could cause a certain uumph of people to go out and buy the magazine from new stands again.

Michael Myers vs the first responders

This was bound to happen! Judging from the trailers and clips release so far, John Carpenters next installment in the Halloween series threatens to pummel first responders.

The movie “Halloween Kills” seems to begin with first responders and firefighters trying to put out the fire that Laurie Strode set to kill Michael Myers.

Instead, and angry and burned Michael exits the home and begins to slaughter any firefighters he comes in contact with, seemingly with their own apparatus and tools.

Now.. A petition has emerged in which a fire fighter is trying to get people to sign onto the demand to cut those scenes from the movie! https://www.change.org/p/change-org-stop-the-petition-to-remove-the-slaughtering-of-firefighters-in-halloween-kills-2021

It’s probably fair to say that the petition is getting more attention with media than it is with signatures, but it was all those expected given the world we now live in. They cancel culture mixed with a overzealous ability to make first responders saints in a time of Covid and other social upheaval.

And now they have met Michael Myers in a movie. They’re being slaughtered, without mercy. John Carpenter warned us of this, and it may not just be the first responders who see their demise in this film. It’s been billed as a bloodbath, a record-setting murderous escapade on a Halloween night. No matter how many petitions emerge, the film is set for release on October 14.

Ethan Hawke freak out

Universal Pictures unveiled a packed trailer for its upcoming Blumhouse horror thriller “The Black Phone” this past week, during a presentation to the annual convention of movie theater owners in Las Vegas.

Reuniting Ethan Hawke with his “Sinister” writer-director Scott Derrickson, the project is adapted from a short story by Joe Hill. Hawke delivers a bone-chilling performance as an unnamed villain, a character he said breaks with his “no bad guys” rule while introducing the clip.

“The Black Phone” follows an abducted boy “locked in a basement that’s stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead,” according to a synopsis of the short. So we’re already having fun.

GRISLY HALLOWEEN KILLS WILL BE IN THEATERS–AND PEACOCK!

…my how the tune has changed?

Universal Pictures has announced a bit of a surprise for Halloween fans as they’ve revealed that Halloween Kills will be released day-and-date in both theaters and the Peacock streaming service on October 15th…

The streaming service will run you either $4.99 or $9.99 a month depending on if you want the ad-free plan, and Halloween Kills be will available for free to subscribers