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Movie Review: In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Despite a promising start, this one honestly didn't do much for me. The bright spot: The opening title sequence freaking rocks. Aside from Halloween, it's probably my favorite Car...
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Movie Review: Prince of Darkness (1987)
I love how slowly this movie builds. It gives you almost no answers for a long stretch, but you can tell something is going on, and the tension really never lets up even after the...
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Movie Review: Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
I can't believe I went so long without watching this gem. The whole vibe took me right back to my martial arts obsessed childhood in the 90s. The movie and plot itself was surpris...
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Movie Review: The Thing (1982)
The Thing might be the most tense I have felt watching a horror movie from this era. Everything about it is built around being stuck, stranded in Antarctica with nowhere to go and...
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Movie Review: The Fog (1980)
I loved this movie. The whole vibe of it, the cinematography from Dean Cundey especially, this thing is criminally underrated. I know it came right after Halloween, which was a phe...
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Movie Review: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
I didn't realize how much I love a good siege movie until I finally sat and watched this one. Fighting a faceless entity while trapped with people you hardly know and have nothing...
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Movie Review: Escape from New York (1981)
I really had no expectations going into this one. Being early in my John Carpenter journey I just knew it was going to be a lot of darkness of night and creative special effects to...
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Am I Becoming a Movie Guy Now?
I've never been a movie guy. TV shows, sure. Creative, artsy stuff, sure. But movies, especially the genre and cult stuff most people my age grew up obsessing over, somehow passed...
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Movie Review: They Live (1988)
I'm starting [my genre movie education](/posts/movie-guy) late in life, but starting with They Live was a choice I don't think I'll regret. As a lifelong wrestling fan, casting Rod...
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