T Watches A Scary Movie

Episode 95 - (Master/Vicious Fun) ”An Exercise in Murder”

It's NEW week, and T has 2 brand new movies up for you!

 

Master - Three women strive to find their place at a prestigious New England university that may disguise something sinister.

 

A timely tale of racial horror, T takes a look at how sometimes seeing the real world in horror can be scarier than any ghost, goblin, or vampire

 

Vicious Fun - A horror film critic finds himself in a sticky situation when he stumbles into a self-help group for serial killers.

 

This tale is RIGHT on the nose for T, so how would he fair if trapped with some serial killers?

 

Finally, T Takes a look at a recent short story "Flicker" by Jed Shepherd, artwork by Trevor Henderson, a terrifying short story about a Rolling Stone reporter who meets one of his idol and finds it may not be what he wants

Episode 94 - This Game is FIRE (Stay Alive, Firestarter)

It's classics week, and T is taking a look at the original Firestarter in anticipation of the remake coming out at the end of of May

As youths, Andy McGee (David Keith) and his future wife, Vicky (Heather Locklear), participated in secret experiments, allowing themselves to be subjected to mysterious medical tests. Years later, the couple's daughter, Charlie (Drew Barrymore), begins to exhibit the ability of setting fires solely with her mind. This volatile talent makes the youngster extremely dangerous and soon she becomes a target for the enigmatic agency known as "The Shop."

And with the recent release of Netflix Video Game Horror, Choose or Die, T also takes a look at the mid 2000s video game horror, Stay Alive

Teenagers decide to pass idle time by playing an online game that has a horror theme. But the action taking place on their computer screens becomes a terrifying reality when they realize that each time a character dies during the game, the figure's human overseer dies as well.

Episode 93 - Household of Terror (Umma, X)

T takes a look at 2 recent new thrillers.

Umma & X

Umma is the story of a single mother who lives with her daughter in a isolated farm being haunted by her mother's ghost.

X follows a cast and crew who gather to make a Porno on an elderly couple's rural Texas property, but find themselves threatened by a killer.

 

How do the jump scares of Umma compare to the building terror of the slasher that is X?

Episode 92 - Afterdark Horrorfest Part 1

It's time for a film festival! 

Back in 2007, T got a job working at Blockbuster and that fall, a series of movies began to come in for the employees to preview.

The "8 Films to Die For", the tagline for the Afterdark Horrorfest, a independent film festival where AfterDark films presented a number of acquired films all in the horror genre.

They ran for a number of years starting in 2006 until most recently in 2015, but T had an urge to revisit these movies, so we begin!

Tonight we discuss:

Dark Ride

The Abandoned

The Gravedancers

The Hamiltons

 

Episode 91 - Pitch Black Terror (The Cave/The Descent)

T takes a look at two 2005 cave monster movies, The Cave & The Descent.

While The Cave is satisfied being a typical summer monster movie (which isn't a bad thing), The Descent went for something more primal to add to the monsters in the background!

T also shares some thoughts on "Morbius" & "Blade Trinity" 

Video version available on youtube at https://youtu.be/ixvsC0H9_rA

Episode 90 - Rock in Hell (Studio 666/Strangeland)

R.I.P Taylor Hawkins

T takes a look at a brand new horror film from...the Foo Fighters? Studio 666 It's incredibly hit or miss when musicians go into film, how do the boys from Seattle turn out in their first feature length starring roles?

Then T takes a look at the perfect pairing, with Twisted Sister lead man, Dee Snider's Strangeland Does Snider manage to make a new memorable horror icon? T also discusses the possibility of Steven Seagal starring in Predator 2

Episode 89 - Def Swipe Left (Bad Samaritan/Fresh)

T takes a look at a couple of tasty recent thrillers 

 

Fresh - The horrors of modern dating are seen through the eyes of a young woman who is battling to survive her new boyfriend's unusual appetites.

Bad Samaritan - A young valet breaks into a man's home and discovers a terrified woman who's chained and gagged. After notifying the police, he soon becomes the target of the psychopath's wrath as he tries to rescue the victim that he left behind.

 

Does Fresh show the modern day horrors of using dating apps?

Despite those unusual appetites, is Fresh overdone?

Can David Tennant put in another all-time performance as our villain

 

 

Episode 88 - ”What Big Teeth You Have” (Werewolves Within/Silver Bullet)

Continuing on from his reviews of The Cursed and Cursed, T takes a look at 2 more Werewolf thrillers in "Werewolves Within" and "Silver Bullet"

 

How does the video game adaptation stand compared to the long lineage of werewolf movies in Hollywood? 

Seeing how it's a video game adaptation, is it actually any good? (We all know those don't work out too well)

Corey Haim's fought Vampires AND Werewolves?

Stephen King adaptations tend to be 50/50, does Silver Bullet fall on the good side of it?

Episode 87 - What A Horrible Night to Have a Curse (The Cursed/Cursed)

T's got Werewolf madness and is bringing to you a review of the recent Werewolf thriller, The Cursed! We don't get too many period werewolf pieces, so does The Cursed make itself stand out from other full moon thrillers? Then T takes a look at Wes Craven's modern Werewolf slasher, Cursed. While this film had a troubled production, is there a little light shining in from what was released?

Episode 86 ’The Magic Word” (Nightmare Alley/Mimic)

In a brand new episode, T takes a look at the most recent entry of a filmmaker that he just doesn't gel with, Guillermo Del Toro's Nightmare Alley.

 

Find out just why T ended up liking this one compared to Del Toro's most recent films, and surprisingly which film/tv franchise he feels this film fits in incredibly well with

 

Then T takes a look at one of Del Toro's earlier films, Mimic