My Thoughts While Watching… Child’s Play (1988) [Trigger Warning: Child Endangerment]

I've seen plenty of Buzzfeed posts floating around where people write a list of thoughts while watching a movie. I read some a few years ago where someone watched all of the Harry Potter movies for the first time while live tweeting and writing a post per movie. I still quote a lot of what …

My Favourite Kills in Horror: Halloween – Top 10 [WARNING: Graphic Content]

Happy Halloween, everybody! To celebrate, here is a top-10 list of my favourite kills from the Halloween franchise. Remember, these are just my opinions. No criteria, no stipulations—just what I consider to be my favourite deaths of ten characters throughout the series. Enjoy. 10. Jamie Lloyd (J. C. Brandy) - Halloween: The Curse of Michael …

My Thoughts While Watching… Urban Legend (1998)

I've seen plenty of Buzzfeed posts floating around where people write a list of thoughts while watching a movie. I read one years ago where someone watched all of the Harry Potter movies for the first time while live tweeting and writing a post per movie. I still quote a lot of what he said …

Halloween H20 (1998) Review

Let's ignore the previous trilogy, like the writers did, and skip straight to 20 years after Halloween II. Laurie Strode, now Keri Tate, is living in California as the headmaster of a private boarding school after faking her death to prevent Michael from coming back for her. When Michael tracks down Loomis' former nurse, he …

The Birds (1963) Review

I think The Birds is one of the best-known movies in Hitchcock's filmography and one of the few that is thought of as an actual horror movie. After a chance encounter with a man named Mitch at a pet store, Melanie travels to Bodega Bay to deliver a pair of lovebirds to him. During her …

My Thoughts While Watching… Halloween Ends (2022) [Trigger Warning: Child Death, Suicide]

I've seen plenty of Buzzfeed posts floating around where people write a list of thoughts while watching a movie. I read one years ago where someone watched all of the Harry Potter movies for the first time while live tweeting and writing a post per movie. I still quote a lot of what he said …

The Conjuring (2013) Review

Here is the first movie in the Conjuring universe. It's going to be fairly brief. Honest Trailer, Everything Wrong With. When the Perron family move into their new farmhouse, they find themselves being terrorised by a malevolent entity. There are only two people who can help them. It's crazy to think that this movie spawned …

Child’s Play 2 (1990) Review

The Chucky sequel that continues to follow the cutest kid ever. Kill Count, Cody Leach Review. It's been two years since Chucky terrorised the Barclays. Karen has been institutionalised and Andy is in foster care. Chucky is reassembled, brought back to life, and goes in search of Andy to complete the ritual. This may be …

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors (1987) Review

This is the third instalment in the Freddy franchise, and my favourite sequel. Actually it's most people's favourite. Kill Count, Cody Leach Review. Set one year after the events of Freddy's Revenge (which was set fives years after the first movie). Kristen Parker has been keeping herself awake to avoid her dreams. When her mother …

Asylum (1972) Review

Here we have the classic anthology film written by Psycho author Robert Bloch and produced by Amicus. Dr. Martin arrives at Dunsmoor, an asylum for the incurably insane, to attend a job interview. He is met by the wheelchair-bound Dr. Rutherford, who presents him with a challenge. The previous head of the asylum, Dr. Starr, …