Monthly Archives: October 2014

OCTOBER HORROR PARTY REVIEW #14: Drag Me To Hell (2009) – dir. Sam Raimi

  God bless Sam Raimi and that utterly unhinged star in the sky from whence he came. I’m certainly no stranger to Raimi’s flavor of horror; I consider the original The Evil Dead to be one of the finest horrors ever and … Continue reading

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OCTOBER HORROR PARTY REVIEW #13: Død snø (Dead Snow) (2009) – dir. Tommy Wirkola

I briefly mentioned Tommy Wirkola’s Dead Snow in my Troll Hunter review as another example of strange ideas Norwegian horror directors put out, though at the time I hadn’t seen it. To be quite honest, while I did enjoy Dead Snow quite a … Continue reading

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OCTOBER HORROR PARTY REVIEW #12: The Blair Witch Project (1999) – dir. Eduardo Sánchez & Daniel Myrick

Each time I watch The Blair Witch Project (I’ve seen it thrice already), I try to place myself in the mindset of when this film was publicized and released. The threat of Y2K was on the rise, the Internet was just … Continue reading

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OCTOBER HORROR PARTY REVIEW #11: Trolljegeren (Troll Hunter) (2010) – dir. André Øvredal

  Leave it to the Norwegians to come up with some of the most fascinating concepts in modern horror. Troll Hunter and Dead Snow alone exemplify the rich yet largely ignored cinematic culture that Norway possesses (I’ve yet to see the latter, … Continue reading

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OCTOBER HORROR PARTY REVIEW #10: May (2002) – dir. Lucky McKee

So, May is definitely one of the weirdest films I have seen for the first time recently, horror or otherwise. It’s my second film watched from the director Lucky McKee, who also directed 2011’s The Woman, a film that I was … Continue reading

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