Dark Christmas: Don’t Open Till Christmas (1984) horror movie review
With a spooky synth score, some fine performances, a swinging early ’80s London setting, and a recent restoration, Don’t Open Till Christmas is better than it has any business being. … Continue reading
Horrorscores: Harry Manfredini – Friday the 13th Part 2 soundtrack review
Harry Manfredini’s synth + string orchestral score is probably too classy for its subject matter, but it elevates Paramount Picture’s bloody campy summer camp slashers beyond mere schlock to something … Continue reading
Mask of Satan – Underneath the Mire album review
Second album from Finland’s Mask of Satan blends Old School Thrash with death metal precision and a doomy pall on Underneath the Mire. It’s hard not to interpret Finland’s Mask … Continue reading
31 Days Of Horror: The 100 Candles Game Telluride Horrorshow Review
The 100 Candles Game is a portmenteau horror seeped in menace and gothic ambiance. It’s pure class, eerier, more unsettling, and higher production values than many more mainstream affairs. Indie … Continue reading
31 Days Of Horror: Black Lake Salem Horror Festival movie review
K/XI’s feature-length debut about a South Asian folktale is a gorgeous, poetic, atmospheric allegory of trauma and revenge. Horror movies have a tendency to tip their hand, letting you know … Continue reading
31 Days Of Horror: Witchcraft (1988) horror movie review
With its dollar store costumes and Casio soundtrack, the only horror on this shot-on-video dreck is that it’s spawned FIFTEEN sequels to date! Let’s face it, as horror lovers, we … Continue reading
Arrias-Davies-Ullén – Crystalline album review
Crystalline is a group improvisation rooted in tradition yet flowering into new, strange, and unexpected shapes. “New music” – that strange amalgam of classical, free jazz, and improvisation – requires … Continue reading
Horrorscores: Umberto – Helpless Spectator album review
Helpless Spectator is Umberto’s most beautiful album to date. It’s also his most terrifying. For the last 10 years, Umberto‘s Matt Hill has been revisiting the weird, eerie world of … Continue reading
You Are Not Who You Are: Isobel Ccircle~ – Save Karras album review
In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger – one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling … Continue reading
Horrorscores: Klaus Morlock – The Three Faces Of Janice ost
The Three Faces Of Janice is the soundtrack for a psychological, pastoral euro-trash giallo from 1977, all blurred lens and cult fornication in the fields. Or it would be, anyway, … Continue reading
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