I select a thematically appropriate horror movie for each day of the year and tell you about it.
Why?
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
How do you get to decide what qualifies as a horror movie and where each one goes on the calendar?
I am the Mayor of Horror Movies.
Are all these movies good?
Oh gosh no. But I recommend all of them to the adventurous viewer.
What’s with the CWs?
In horror movies, disturbing material is part of the entertainment package. But for some viewers, elements like sexual violence or bigotry ruin the fun. For those folks, I include content warnings. That said, the warnings are based on my personal reactions and should not be expected to cover all potential cinematic skeeviness, so proceed with caution.
Who are you, aside from the mayor?
I’m Shaenon K. Garrity. I’m mostly a cartoonist. I watch a lot of scary movies while I draw cartoons.
My first encounter with Lovecraftian movie adaptation after having found his stories in the library, I saw this when it first came out in theaters (saw the 1970 “The Dunwich Horror” [with a very young Dean Stockwell!] as a kid, but did not really appreciate it). Nice and gruesome, and the non-sex parts inspired me to create a memorable D&D session (I’m much too prim and proper to have anything beyond chaste love in my RPGs). Good work overall, and a better Lovecraft story than “Reanimator”.
To me this is maybe the best performance by maybe the all-time best “scream queen,” Barbara
Crampton, the role that best fuses the two aspects of her persona (the sweet girl and the terrifying sexpot)
From Skynet’s POV, Skynet is the hero of it’s own story. Same goes for “The Architect” from the “Matrix”-verse and Colossus from “Colossus: The Forbin Project”.
I have. The threat isn’t exactly computer based. Ghosts are appearing randomly and disintegrating people. They have their own website, and when we finally get a good look at one it has dropout lines. Interesting in a creepy, paranoid way.
My first encounter with Lovecraftian movie adaptation after having found his stories in the library, I saw this when it first came out in theaters (saw the 1970 “The Dunwich Horror” [with a very young Dean Stockwell!] as a kid, but did not really appreciate it). Nice and gruesome, and the non-sex parts inspired me to create a memorable D&D session (I’m much too prim and proper to have anything beyond chaste love in my RPGs). Good work overall, and a better Lovecraft story than “Reanimator”.
Great performances by horror icons Barbara Crampton and Jeffrey Combs in this.
To me this is maybe the best performance by maybe the all-time best “scream queen,” Barbara
Crampton, the role that best fuses the two aspects of her persona (the sweet girl and the terrifying sexpot)
What’s happened to Sunday, Monday updates? How am I supposed to face the day without my fix of horroreveryday. Hope everything’s OK…
I emailed Shaenon. She said she’s having a hardware issue.
So lets think of horror movies about malfunctioning computers in the mean time… Lawnmower Man?
“Demon Seed”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Seed
Heh. Terminator. Or was that computer thought to be functioning perfectly?
From Skynet’s POV, Skynet is the hero of it’s own story. Same goes for “The Architect” from the “Matrix”-verse and Colossus from “Colossus: The Forbin Project”.
2001:A Space Odyssey, maybe. While researching I found mention of Japanese fIlm ‘Pulse'(2001). Anyone seen it?
I have. The threat isn’t exactly computer based. Ghosts are appearing randomly and disintegrating people. They have their own website, and when we finally get a good look at one it has dropout lines. Interesting in a creepy, paranoid way.