Tag: Wes Craven
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31 Days of Wicked Watching [DAY 16]: My View of Woods and Cabins is Extremely Tainted
The sequence of modern horrors that I’ve shared over the course of this week is on purpose. They’re meant to be in direct contrast, yet symbiosis, with the pantheon of monsters that gave way for these tall tales to be celebrated. Today’s film, “Cabin in the Woods,” which like “It Follows” would make the top […]
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31 Days of Wicked Watch [DAY 6]: Origins are the Best Medicine
One of the films that started it all comes from one of the greatest film minds of all-time: Alfred Hitchcock. “Psycho” starring Janet Leigh (“Halloween’s” Jamie Lee Curtis’s mother) is one of the most brutally effective visual stories in my film library, and it is one that, despite the black-and-white film that so many are […]
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31 Days of Wicked Watching [DAY 2]: Nightmares for the Weekend
Yesterday kicked off my 31 days of horror film binging, and it kicked off with the film that gave Craven his first soiree with the millennials who came to adore his work. Today, I continue my journey with another Craven classic: “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” While the iconic movie poster could make you double […]
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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 […]
Patrick R. Johnson, MJE 