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[Horror Bucket List] ‘The Pact’ Offers Plenty of Hidden Surprises

April 7, 2020 by Joe Lipsett

Caity Lotz in short shorts and a tank top, peering in a window

In Horror Bucket List, I fill in gaps in my horror film knowledge based on recommendations from friends on Twitter. We then have a back and forth discussion about their history with the film.

Next up: checking out what’s inside the walls of The Pact (2012) with Kate from Stop! Horror Time! podcast.

Spoilers follow… [Read more…]

Filed Under: Horror, Horror Bucket List Tagged With: Caity Lotz, Dakota Bright, IFC Midnight, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Mark Steger, Nicholas McCarthy

[He Said / She Said] ‘Extra Ordinary’ Is Nothing Short of Amazing

April 3, 2020 by Joe Lipsett

Barry Ward and Maeve Higgins hold hands for a ritual over a candle

In He Said/She Said, critics Joe and Valeska dissect a film in a back and forth exchange. Previously, we tackled the very silly, albeit enjoyable Countdown, which was the definition of mindless youth horror.

This time, we’re aiming for some dry, sardonic wit with Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman’s Irish ghost comedy Extra Ordinary.

Spoilers follow… [Read more…]

Filed Under: He Said/She Said, Horror Tagged With: barry ward, claudia o'doherty, emma coleman, enda loughman, maeve higgins, mike ahern, terri chandler, Toronto After Dark, Will Forte

[Horror Bucket List] ‘Thirst’ Is A Sexy & Subversive Korean Take on the Vampire Mythos

March 31, 2020 by Joe Lipsett

In Horror Bucket List, I fill in gaps in my horror film knowledge based on recommendations from friends on Twitter. We then have a back and forth discussion about their history with the film.

Next up: a jaunt to South Korea to check out Park Chan-Wook’s sexy vampire film, Thirst, with Jenny Nulf.

Spoilers follow…

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Horror, Horror Bucket List Tagged With: east asian cinema, jenny nulf, Kim Hae-sook, lady vengeance, Ok-bin Kim, oldboy, Park Chan-wook, Park In-hwan, Song Kang Ho

[Horror Bucket List] ‘The Night of the Hunter’ Is A Classic, Eerie Moral Odyssey

March 23, 2020 by Joe Lipsett

The corpse of a woman in a white dress tied to a car that is at the bottom of a lake

In Horror Bucket List, I fill in gaps in my horror film knowledge based on recommendations from friends on Twitter. We then have a back and forth discussion about their history with the film.

Next up: a jaunt back to 1955 to check out The Night of the Hunter with Talk Movie To Me’s Ms. Sinclair.

Spoilers follow… [Read more…]

Filed Under: Horror Bucket List Tagged With: Billy Chapin, Charles Laughton, criterion collection, Film Noir, Lillian Gish, robert mitchum, Sally Jane Bruce, Shelley Winters

[Horror Bucket List] ‘The Gate’ Is A (Forgotten?) Gateway Horror Film That Holds Up

March 5, 2020 by Joe Lipsett

In Horror Bucket List, I fill in gaps in my horror film knowledge based on recommendations from friends on Twitter. We then have a back and forth discussion about their history with the film.

Next up: 1987’s The Gate with Bryan Christopher, @eviltaylorhicks.

Spoilers follow…

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Horror, Horror Bucket List Tagged With: Christa Denton, gateway horror, Louis Tripp, Michael Nankin, stephen dorff, stop motion, the gate, Tibor Takács

[Horror Bucket List] ‘The Seventh Victim’ Delivers The Queer Satanism

February 22, 2020 by Joe Lipsett

In Horror Bucket List, I fill in gaps in my horror film knowledge based on recommendations from friends on Twitter. We then have a back and forth discussion about their history with the film.

Next up: 1943’s The Seventh Victim with David Demchuk, @dd_toronto.

Spoilers follow… [Read more…]

Filed Under: Horror, Horror Bucket List Tagged With: Erford Gage, Film Noir, Hugh Beaumont, Jean Brooks, kim hunter, Tom Conway, val lewton

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The 411 on me

I am a freelance film and television journalist based in Toronto, Canada.

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> That Shelf

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> Horror Queers
> Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr

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