Robtober
Topic archive / 366 posts
Bones
Slumber Party Massacre II
Cube
Centipede Horror
Young Frankenstein
The Cremator
The Lighthouse
New Nightmare
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Witchfinder General
Lake Mungo
Like many ghost stories, Lake Mungo is about grief, its apparitions manifestations of its characters’ inability to accept their loss; and like many ghost stories, its emotional core is overshadowed by its spook factor. And that’s fine. Lake Mungo’s misstep is in its approach to being a mystery thriller, loaded with nonsensical twists and arbitrary red herrings, none of which coalesce into a remotely satisfying resolution. At one point, a woman who has spent… See more →
Cure
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
The Gruesome Twosome
Color Me Blood Red
The Leopard Man
The War of the Worlds
Robtober 2019
A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake
Every October, I put together a big schedule of horror films, most of which I haven’t seen before. Films and dates (all subject to change) are listed for any friends who want to join me, and ticket links are included for public screenings.
This year, I’ve set aside a weekend to plow through the entire Nightmare on Elm Street series (I’ve only ever seen the first three). I’m also finally finishing off (the current version… See more →
Decades of Horror
Using personal data and crowdsourcing for film curation
Having just wrapped up another successful Robtober, I’m already thinking ahead to next year. Making a month-long schedule of horror movies is always more work than I think it will be, especially because I aim for most of the movies to be ones I haven’t seen before. As I’ve covered previously, my curation process is fairly involved, but I recently realized I’ve been ignoring a hugely valuable resource.
It’s Letterboxd, dummy
Anyone who’s paid any… See more →
Frankenstein
Jigoku
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
28 Weeks Later
The Howling
Tremors
Night of the Demon
The Black Cat
Dead Ringers
Revenge
Ms .45
The Grapes of Death
The Iron Rose
God Told Me To
Trog
Halloween
It may be the first in the series (other than the original) to have a director and screenwriters with name recognition, but this is just another Halloween sequel, thankfully nothing less but certainly nothing more. It’s pretty boring.
Also, is there any greater talent in Hollywood who is as routinely wasted as Judy Greer is?
Apostle
The director of The Raid putting his spin on The Wicker Man sure sounds like fun, and Apostle starts off with promise, with a wild-eyed Dan Stevens lurching around a muddy village of Victorian cultists. But the movie kneecaps itself before the halfway mark, rushing to resolve the most interesting aspects of its plot in favor of making a gonzo, gore-soaked spectacle of the superfluous remainder.
Hour of the Wolf
Halloween: Resurrection
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Halloween II
