Category: 90s Horror
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31 Days of Wicked Watching [DAY 29]: For the Love of Jack and Sally
This one is short and sweet; it is my ode to what is my favorite Halloween/Christmas story of all time: “The Nightmare of Christmas.” To Jack and Sally—you are the love story of a lifetime. Your music and dancing and story and connection is beautiful and brilliant and bountiful. To Tim Burton—thank you for your […]
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31 Days of Wicked Watching [DAY 28]: I’ll Take the Chianti and Fava Beans
I mean, what’s 31 days of horror without Hannibal Lecter and “The Silence of the Lambs.” Anthony Hopkins rich portrayal of the cannibalistic serial killer landed him a Best Actor win. Honestly, the film was so good that it is still only one of the three to win all five of the major categories at […]
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31 Days of Wicked Watching [DAY 24]: The Birth of Innovation with a Film I Genuinely Hate
In 1999 a string of marketing flooded the internet, in what would be seen as the first major internet-dominant campaign. Coupled with a cryptic website, “The Blair Witch Project” was born. As the revamp of the found-footage genre, the film brought its viewers as close to reality as they’d ever experienced. The marketing did that […]
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31 Days of Wicked Watching [DAY 1]: Williamson’s Dynamic Duo
Pardon me while this washed-up, dried-out has been has a moment. I cannot imagine a better way to kick off my official writing about horror than with my annual journey of Halloween Haunts through the month of October. While many post about “spooky szn” and their annual fall trips to apple orchards in flannels and […]