THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE (1982)

DAY 16 Teenaged girls gather at a slumber party only to be stalked and murdered by a power-drill wielding maniac. I’m mad for two reasons: One, I had never treated myself to SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE (1982) despite its legendary cult status. And two, I’ll never get to watch it for the first time again. Penned […]

A DARK SONG (2016)

DAY 15 Desperate to contact her murdered child, a woman isolates herself and a bitter occultist in her home for months to complete a set of intense rituals intended to summon her guardian angel. What the folk is folk horror, you ask? Literature and film that draw on folklore, old religion, rural isolation, the power […]

BODY BAGS (1993)

DAY 14 Horror honcho John Carpenter presents three terrible tales of murder, beauty and possession anthology style with the help of a handful of household names.  Like most screen obsessed stooges, my attention span continues to dwindle day by day, so I’m an easy sell when presented an anthology horror movie. There exist many compendiums […]

THE UNINVITED (1944)

DAY 13 Two siblings move into an abandoned seaside mansion only to find it’s haunted by an aggrieved spirit.  THE UNINVITED (1944) feels important to the genre as it’s one of Hollywood’s first ghost stories. We’re headed back in time to 1944 when Horror continued to thrive following its Hollywood Golden Age of the 1930s. […]

ODDITY (2024)

DAY 12 A blind psychic brings a cursed object to the site of her twin’s murder in hopes to discover the truth behind her death. Emerging Irish filmmaker Damian McCarthy made a splash this year with his ghostly sophomore feature ODDITY (2024), a tense tale of murder, deceit and the supernatural. McCarthy weaves a spine-tingling […]