I select a thematically appropriate horror movie for each day of the year and tell you about it.
Why?
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
How do you get to decide what qualifies as a horror movie and where each one goes on the calendar?
I am the Mayor of Horror Movies.
Are all these movies good?
Oh gosh no. But I recommend all of them to the adventurous viewer.
What’s with the CWs?
In horror movies, disturbing material is part of the entertainment package. But for some viewers, elements like sexual violence or bigotry ruin the fun. For those folks, I include content warnings. That said, the warnings are based on my personal reactions and should not be expected to cover all potential cinematic skeeviness, so proceed with caution.
Who are you, aside from the mayor?
I’m Shaenon K. Garrity. I’m mostly a cartoonist. I watch a lot of scary movies while I draw cartoons.
Great movie, and it inspired one of the all-time greatest SNL skits, “Ed Glosser – Trivial Psychic”: “You’re daughter’s running on the wet kitchen floor…She’s leaving footprints…The housekeeper’s annoyed…and she has to do that part of the floor over again…It’s not too late! You can call her, and save her!”
Wait, that was Cronenberg? *checks IMDB in disbelief* Wow. Where was the gut-twisting body horror? This movie was almost…tasteful.
It was also the most faithful film adaptation of a King novel I’ve seen. Pretty much every difference I remember between the movie and the novel was directly due to the difference in medium; the heart of the story was retained. King’s novels are so dense and visual that from what I’ve seen a TV miniseries usually gives a better result. Better films come from his short stories (Stand By Me, for instance).
One of Christopher Walken’s most Walken-esque (and best) performances.
Great movie, and it inspired one of the all-time greatest SNL skits, “Ed Glosser – Trivial Psychic”: “You’re daughter’s running on the wet kitchen floor…She’s leaving footprints…The housekeeper’s annoyed…and she has to do that part of the floor over again…It’s not too late! You can call her, and save her!”
You don’t get it, you’re wasting coffee!
Can people still watch this today and not wonder why electing Jed Bartlet is a bad thing?
Wait, that was Cronenberg? *checks IMDB in disbelief* Wow. Where was the gut-twisting body horror? This movie was almost…tasteful.
It was also the most faithful film adaptation of a King novel I’ve seen. Pretty much every difference I remember between the movie and the novel was directly due to the difference in medium; the heart of the story was retained. King’s novels are so dense and visual that from what I’ve seen a TV miniseries usually gives a better result. Better films come from his short stories (Stand By Me, for instance).