53 posts tagged with horror by johnofjack.
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Movie: Wolfkin

Single mother Elaine is disturbed by her son Martin's aggressive behaviour, she visits his late father's estranged family in small-town Luxembourg, which hides a much darker nature. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Mar 16, 2025 - 1 comment

Movie: Dead Ringers

[Trailer] Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Mar 9, 2025 - 13 comments

Movie: No One Gets Out Alive

[Trailer] After being forced to take a room in a boardinghouse, an immigrant in search of the American Dream finds herself in a nightmare she can't escape. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Feb 23, 2025 - 2 comments

Movie: The Dark and the Wicked

[Trailer] "On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family." [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Feb 2, 2025 - 6 comments

Movie: Scream 4

[Trailer] "Ten years have passed, and Sidney Prescott, who has put herself back together thanks in part to her writing, is visited by the Ghostface Killer." [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Jan 23, 2025 - 4 comments

Movie: Three... Extremes / Sam gang 2

[Trailer] An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors. --IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Jan 20, 2025 - 7 comments

Movie: Scream 3

[Trailer] While Sidney and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, another Ghostface killer rises to terrorize them. --IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Jan 20, 2025 - 4 comments

Movie: 1922

[Trailer] In the year 1922, a rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain and convinces his teenage son to participate. -IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Jan 11, 2025 - 1 comment

Book: The Black Guy Dies First

A definitive and surprising exploration of the history of Black horror films, after the rising success of Get Out, Candyman, and Lovecraft Country from creators behind the acclaimed documentary, Horror Noire. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Dec 29, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Revenge

[Trailer] Never take your mistress on an annual guys' getaway, especially one devoted to hunting - a violent lesson for three wealthy married men. --IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Dec 29, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Kuroneko / Black Cat

In this poetic and atmospheric horror fable, set in a village in war-torn medieval Japan, a malevolent spirit has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. When a military hero is sent to dispatch the unseen force, he finds that he must struggle with his own personal demons as well. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Dec 28, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Brand Upon the Brain!

Returned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Dec 18, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: Warm Bodies

[Trailer] After a highly unusual zombie saves a still-living girl from an attack, the two form a relationship that sets in motion events that might transform the entire lifeless world. -- IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 29, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: Southern Comfort

[Trailer] During a routine exercise, a team of National Guardsmen are threatened by angry and violent locals. -- IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 28, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Santa Sangre

[Trailer] A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms". -IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 9, 2024 - 16 comments

Movie: Black Sunday / the Mask of Satan / La maschera del demonio

[Trailer] Decades after being executed for witchcraft, vengeful Princess Asa Vajda and her fiendish servant are resurrected and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of Asa Vajda's beautiful look-alike descendant Princess Katia. --IMDb
posted by johnofjack on Nov 8, 2024 - 0 comments

Movie: The Whip and the Body / La frusta e il corpo

[Trailer] Disowned in the past by his father, Kurt Menliff, a cruel and sadistic nobleman, returns to the family castle to reclaim his inheritance. -- Trakt
posted by johnofjack on Nov 5, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Trick or Treat (1986)

[Trailer] A bullied teenage boy is devastated after the death of his heavy metal idol, Sammi Curr. But as Halloween night approaches, he discovers that he may be the only one who can stop Sammi from making a Satanic comeback from beyond the grave. --IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Oct 27, 2024 - 8 comments

Movie: Hounds of Love

[Trailer] Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. As she observes the dynamic between her captors she quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive. -- IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Oct 24, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key

A series of murders are committed near the estate of a degenerate author and his mistreated wife. -IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Oct 21, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Black Belly of the Tarantula / La tarantola dal ventre nero

[Trailer] An Italian detective (Giancarlo Giannini) hunts a health-spa killer who uses a knife dipped in venom. -- Rotten Tomatoes [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Oct 19, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: The Stendhal Syndrome

[Trailer] A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession. -IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Oct 19, 2024 - 2 comments

Book: Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film

From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. Although such movies have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasures to their mostly male audiences, Clover demonstrates that they align spectators not with the male tormentor, but with the females tormented―notably the slasher movie's "final girls"―as they endure fear and degradation before rising to save themselves. The lesson was not lost on the mainstream industry, which was soon turning out the formula in well-made thrillers. -- publisher
posted by johnofjack on Oct 16, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Halloween: Resurrection

[Trailer] Three years after he last terrorized his sister, Michael Myers confronts her again, before traveling to Haddonfield to deal with the cast and crew of a reality show which is being broadcast from his old home. - IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Oct 11, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Poison for the Fairies / Veneno para las hadas

[Trailer] A 10 year old girl convinces a lonely classmate that she is a witch, forcing the child to become her assistant. Though their games are initially rather naive, they gradually take a nasty and violent turn. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Oct 9, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Deathdream / Dead of Night

[Trailer] A young soldier killed in the Vietnam War inexplicably shows up at his family home on the night of his death. -- IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Oct 6, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: À Meia Noite Levarei Sua Alma / At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

A gravedigger prowls the city in search of a female to bear him a son. -- IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Oct 5, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: El hoyo en la cerca / The Hole in the Fence

[Trailer] As every year, the Los Pinos school, a prestigious school of the confessional type, sends its students on retreat to the countryside. Under the watchful eye of teachers and priests, the children are led on the path of their physical and moral development. Through the gaze of several middle and upper class teenagers, the film shows how their upbringing affects the future of society itself. -- Trakt [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Sep 29, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

[Trailer] Laurie Strode, now the dean of a Northern California private school with an assumed name, must battle the Shape one last time, as the life of her own son hangs in the balance. --IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Sep 27, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: The Beast with Five Fingers

[Trailer] In a turn-of-the-century Renaissance Italian mansion, its tyrannical owner, a wheelchair-using one-handed pianist with a strong belief in the occult is murdered. - IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Sep 22, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Goosebumps (2015)

[Trailer] A teenager teams up with the daughter of young-adult horror author R.L. Stine after the writer's imaginary demons are set free on the town of Madison, Delaware. - IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Sep 21, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Mientras duermes / Sleep Tight

[Trailer] Cesar, a miserable man who works as an apartment concierge, takes a special interest in an attractive woman who lives there. He goes to great lengths to trouble her. - IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Sep 12, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Opera

A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself. --IMDb
posted by johnofjack on Aug 28, 2024 - 9 comments

Movie: Don't Torture a Duckling

When a southern Italian town is rocked by a string of child murders, the police and two urban outcasts search for the culprit amid scapegoating within the superstitious community. --IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Aug 26, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Prevenge

Widow Ruth is seven months pregnant when, believing herself to be guided by her unborn baby, she embarks on a homicidal rampage, dispatching anyone who stands in her way. --IMDb
posted by johnofjack on Aug 20, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: Q: The Winged Serpent

A small-time crook stumbles onto the nest of a winged serpent attacking New York City, and hopes to use his discovery to broker a deal with the police.
posted by johnofjack on Aug 18, 2024 - 7 comments

Movie: The Masque of the Red Death

[Trailer] A sadistic devil-worshipping prince intends to wait out a plague in his castle with his friends. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Aug 4, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Theater of Blood

A Shakespearean actor feels he's been robbed of a prestigious award and takes arms against his sea of critics.
posted by johnofjack on Jul 29, 2024 - 12 comments

Movie: The Stepford Wives

Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents. -- IMDb
posted by johnofjack on Jul 13, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Possum

[TRAILER] A disgraced children's puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life. -- IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Jul 2, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Dracula / Horror of Dracula

[Trailer] When Jonathan Harker rouses the ire of Count Dracula for accepting a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, his friend Dr. Van Helsing pursues the predatory villain. -- IMDb. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on May 26, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: ...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà / The Beyond

A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell. -- IMDb. Trailer on YouTube.
posted by johnofjack on May 26, 2024 - 4 comments

Book: The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror novels picks up four years after Don’t Fear the Reaper as Jade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to build a life after the years of sacrifice—only to find the Lake Witch is waiting for her in New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones’s finale. -- Simon & Schuster [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Apr 11, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: Tigers Are Not Afraid

A dark fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the drug war. Trailer. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 4, 2023 - 10 comments

Book: The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

Author Tiffany D. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America’s history and legacy of racism in this YA novel following a biracial teenager as her Georgia high school hosts its first integrated prom. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Jul 16, 2023 - 2 comments

Book: It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Dec 29, 2022 - 4 comments

Movie: Angel Heart

A private investigator is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn. Trailer. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Dec 18, 2022 - 20 comments

Movie: Kwaidan

A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes. The trailer contains spoilers for at least one of the stories, if you're not familiar with them already. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Dec 2, 2022 - 1 comment

Movie: Z

A family finds themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son's imaginary friend. Trailer. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 28, 2022 - 1 comment

Movie: House

A troubled writer moves into a haunted house after inheriting it from his aunt. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 10, 2022 - 4 comments

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