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  • SHIRTS TO WEAR AND SCARE: ‘Serial Killer’ store has a lot to offer

    SHIRTS TO WEAR AND SCARE: ‘Serial Killer’ store has a lot to offer

    Fans of horror films and the genre love to show their favorite slasher on T-shirts and apparel. Twas always thus and always thus shall be..

    Given that thought, I thought it would be proper and decent to show you all one of my favorite places for such items: The Serial Killer Shop online, featuring tons of cool shirts that can showcase your favorite villain from horror or to celebrate your most prized movie from the genre. Real people featured too should that be your forte.

     

    The website features amazing deals.. it also has a huge fan base, over 24,000 people on Twitter, 100,000 on Facebook, and 26,000 on Instagram. You most likely have seen their products on a torso near you. You may even have one yourself..

    The site also features a blog that has very readable horror movie facts and tidbits.

    However, it’s clear the real prize for readers are the products..

    You can visit the shop and peruse the items yourself, but I wanted to share the shirts I felt most affinity for.. my favorites from the website, and maybe they’ll be yours too:


    Absolutely love this one.. my spirit animal has scissorhands.. 


    Camp Crystal Lake never looked so respectful. A nice vacation spot.. a beautiful piece of garment to showcase the date when the camp was founded. And Jason lurks. The vibe from the shirt is spot on.


    Classic horror is not forgotten either.. Franklenstein! Very cool.

     

    And the best for last.. my favorite of the items offered:


     This IT FOLLOWS shirt captures the brilliance of the movie onto one image. The black and white presents the perfect picture, coupled with the blood red font. One of the better movies of the past decade.. and one of the most amazing shirts to show your love of it..

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    So enjoy the products, Check them out..
    The world is a scary place. You may as well show off your flare the proper way.

     

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  • ‘IT’ poster revealed 

    ‘IT’ poster revealed 

    Entertainment sites were abuzz in the past 48 hours over the first official poster for IT..

    The image features Georgie in his yellow rain coat.. a clown in the shadows handing him a balloon..  the picture is coupled with a Chiller-ish font saying ‘It.’
    Besides the font (in my opinion) the picture on the poster works .. it shows the foreboding terror that the idea of Pennywise the dancing clown consists of. Seeing the darkness is like seeing a mystery.. knowing the fate of poor Georgie is even more awful as much as terrifying  … the whole thing is tragic. It’s horrific. It’s deeply scary.. and it has a red balloon for its own amusement and not yours…
    In theaters September 8, 2017, the film is set “in a small town in Maine, where seven children known as The Losers’ Club come face to face with life problems, bullies, and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise..

    Bill Skarsgard stars as Pennywise, the sewer-dwelling monster.

  • Reviewer writes that she is Haunted By ‘Get Out’ — But Not Because It’s A Horror Film

    Reviewer writes that she is Haunted By ‘Get Out’ — But Not Because It’s A Horror Film

    Reviewer writes that she is Haunted By ‘Get Out’ — But Not Because It’s A Horror Film:

    GET OUT continues to garner media praise and reviewer praise alike.. while not at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes at this point, the film is still scoring above 97% and is widely loved by professional and amateur reviews alike..

    The latest interesting perspective comes from Shira Hirschman Weiss. She wrote this in the HUFFINGTON POST, linked above:

    Without spoiling Get Out, I will say that as a woman whose skin is pale, I came away pensive. In the resulting week, I’m more perplexed. The movie was incredibly powerful, but it highlighted for me how we can all make buffoons of ourselves in the face of diversity. In an ultra-PC environment ― that Donald Trump notoriously seems to shun ― there are several types of Americans. Among them are the blatant racists and of the other extreme, those who want to prove how un-racist they are that they end up overdoing it.

    GET OUT is a prime example of horror done right: Elements of fear coupled with the modern societal horrors of a generation.. without being spoken, it can be a commentary on our world. Truly done well.

    Expect a long term ramification from GET OUT.. long term results with more movies like it to follow. Especially during the hyper-political era of Donald Trump..

  • Horror movies during the Trump years

    Horror movies during the Trump years

    W MAGAZINE has a very good article running: Why horror movies will be the best art during the Trump Administration..

    Author Max Lackin writes in part,

    Get Out subverts the home invasion genre’s classics like Friday the 13th and Scream—here, the menace is what’s already residing inside the white suburban house—while going further. Its first scene, of a young black man out at night alone walking through suburbia, goes from a feeling of unease to something deeply sinister with the appearance of a car that stalks him. “When this man anxiously looks for a way out, the scene grows discordantly disturbing because you may, as I did, flash on Trayvon Martin,” wrote Manhola Dargis in the New York Times.

    And more..

    “Social thriller” is Peele’s nomenclature, but it’s a good descriptor of the swell of recent films that wear horror’s cowl loosely, masking their progressive messaging just beneath genre makeup. The class commentary of The Purge franchise is more emphatic, but heavy-handedness doesn’t make its point any less true. Set in a near future in which a national holiday of state-sanctioned anarchy has yielded record-low crime and a one-percent unemployment rate, it’s a dystopia masquerading as utopia, thanks to a few hours of cathartic bloodletting—and a warning about where a few missteps could land us. The first installment came out in 2013, when the heft of the monthly unemployment rate carried weight.

    IT FOLLOWS was also a societal commentary.. the overriding sense of dread came less from the invisible sexual monster but more the poverty and desolation in Detroit..

    While I’d agree that GET OUT was social commentary, I am not sure it is truly about Trump.. same with PURGE ELECTION YEAR, this was released before Trump’s win. That said, the movies seem relevant ..

    One point that seems to be missed–and one I stress all of the time, hence my study of horror movies–horror has always been social commentary. FRIDAY THE 13th was not just about teenage dreams being slashed, but actually the religious right that rose during the Reagan years.. Other films, like NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, were all about race relations..  and even the SAW films were a response to the torture and warfare of the post 9/11 years..

    Movies have gone there before..and they will again. To be truly effective they need to have somewhat concealed.. somewhat overt. A mixture of both succeeds on all audience levels.

  • BILL PAXTON DIED TODAY.. To me, one of the best films he was…

    BILL PAXTON DIED TODAY.. To me, one of the best films he was…

    BILL PAXTON DIED TODAY.. 

    To me, one of the best films he was ever in–and maybe one of the best horror movies in the past 20 years–was FRAILTY in 2001 .. THAT LONG AGO ALREADY!?

    The character he plays, the father of two boys he’s drawing into his bizarre gospel, is definitely crazy. But he may also — possibly — be right..

    His skills in the movie were amazing.. he made it be the classic it was..

    There are nothing but kind words from all circles for Paxton. 
    He will be missed. And he’s gone too soon.

  • BILL PAXTON DIED TODAY.. To me, one of the best films he was…

    BILL PAXTON DIED TODAY.. To me, one of the best films he was…

    BILL PAXTON DIED TODAY.. 

    To me, one of the best films he was ever in–and maybe one of the best horror movies in the past 20 years–was FRAILTY in 2001 .. THAT LONG AGO ALREADY!?

    The character he plays, the father of two boys he’s drawing into his bizarre gospel, is definitely crazy. But he may also — possibly — be right..

    His skills in the movie were amazing.. he made it be the classic it was..

    There are nothing but kind words from all circles for Paxton. 
    He will be missed. And he’s gone too soon.

  • The Evolution of High-Tech Horror Movies, From ‘Dot.Kill’ to ‘Rings’

    The Evolution of High-Tech Horror Movies, From ‘Dot.Kill’ to ‘Rings’

    The Evolution of High-Tech Horror Movies, From ‘Dot.Kill’ to ‘Rings’ :

    This is what happens when horror is done right: Modern technology becomes frightening.

    The days of VHS are gone. But they can equally be scary (Such as VHS, the movie) …

    The original RING film was a classic for me.. I brought my entire family and lots of friends to see it in theaters in the early part of this century.. But kids of today? They just don’t get it. They know more about the RING from the SCARY MOVIE parody series than by watching it themselves.. and .. VHS!? A Tape!? What in the world is such an antiquated thing!

    The newest RING is promising to merge the old nostalgia of VHS with modern technology.

    As THE WRAP reports in the aforementioned link, the RING is not alone. UNFRIENDED was one of my favorites..

    Modern era tech can be scary.
    You know why? Because even though technology advances the frightening people who sit behind a computer screen are still the same..

  • BAD OMEN: AMITYVILLE DELAYED

    BAD OMEN: AMITYVILLE DELAYED

    January openings normally are good for horror–surprise hits come in the cold..

    But 2017’s January release of newest *yawn* edition of the AMITYVILLE horror has been delayed..

    To the summer we now go!

    Dimension Films has officially delayed Amityville: The Awakening until June 30th..

    Let’s see how long that date lasts too.
    It will also face a new DESPICABLE ME in theaters the same weekend..

    Directed and co-written by Franck Khalfoun and produced by Jason Blum alongside co-writers Daniel Farrands, and Casey La Scala, Amityville: The Awakening stars Bella Thorne, Cameron Monaghan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Thomas Mann, Jennifer Morrison and Kurtwood Smith.

    ….some consider this a commendable thing! Going against a big family movie in the middle of the heat of the summer.

    Or .. as one said,

    Why not just release this on a steaming service or on demand and get it over with? Hasn’t this been on the shelf for two or three years? I wonder if the cast will still be obligated to even promote it?

  • Not a reason for the season

    Not a reason for the season

    This is no way is meant to be an insult of BOO! A MADEA HALLOWEEN.

    But its victory at the Halloween weekend box office clearly showcases a vacuum of scary at this week’s box office – a week that should be housing horror films and festivals of darkness. It’s Halloween weekend for God’s sake..

    The film is in its second week.. it dropped more than 40% from the opening.. but it still ended up in first place with $16 mil..

    INFERNO fell short of all expectations this weekend.. Tom Hanks flopped..  $15 mil for over 3,500 theaters!

    But BOO! A MADEA HALLOWEEN? Number 1? And with an awfully low count in dollars.

    Why did the big studios lump all the horror flicks into the spring and summer? This season could have used some scary movies. Instead people were stuck NETFLIXING old ones or finding the hits from yesterday in the DVD five buck bin at Walmart.

    This should have been a big weekend for something.
    Sadly we were offered nothing.

  • The American PURGE

    The American PURGE

    BLOODY MOVIES THAT ARE ABOUT POLITICS.

    I swear the Washington Post has been reading my material.. This is what they wrote about the new PURGE film and its societal meaning:

    Flash-forward to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and another uptick in extreme horror films, led by two franchises, “Saw” and “Hostel,” that reflected a darkening mood. In the wake of the 2003 Abu Ghraib scandal, mainstream entertainment passed on dealing with the morals and efficacy of torture, aside from the ticking-time-bomb fantasies of “24.” But the “Saw” series, beginning in 2004, steered right into the curve. Over seven straight Halloween weekends, young audiences turned up in large numbers to watch like-aged victims wriggle under elaborate torture devices. And as post-9/11 goodwill eroded into hostility toward U.S. foreign policy overseas, 2005’s “Hostel” imagined the grimmest possible fate for American backpackers in Europe.

    All that said, the newest PURGE movie still looks ridiculous.