Light-Gun arcade games ring nostalgic bells in the hearts of a certain age group. The concept was simple: you pointed a realistic gun controller at the screen, and you shoot. While naturally combining this innovation with the roaming terror of the undead, quickly made a … Continue reading Macabre Month 5 Part IX: The House of the Dead: Remake (2022)
Our mind is a complex machine, one we can take for granted. Sometimes, the greater details are lost, buried deeps in the perpetually expanding archives. Other times it is conjuring up strange new worlds that we could almost live in. From the mundane to the … Continue reading Macabre Month 5 Part VIII: Malignant (2021)
Life’s great joy is that it is finite, from the second we’re born, until the second we kick the bucket, there is a constant timer that is constantly ticking down until an unknown date and time come to pass. In 2019, a film supposed what … Continue reading Macabre Month 5 Part VII: Countdown (2019)
It could be argued that 1969 brought a sobering conclusion to the spirit of counter-culture that was brewing in the decade, with the rise of the Manson family putting the brutal end to the hippy ideal. In 2019, while Tarantino was lamenting the fall of … Continue reading Macabre Month 5 Part V: The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019)
In an unprecedented explosion of undead-related content in the early years of the millennium, Zombieland. It managed to make great strides with its well-observed spin on the clichés and conventions, doing to the genre what Scream did with slashers. In 2019, with the boon of … Continue reading Macabre Month 5 Part IV: Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
You can do a lot with a brand name, even many decades after the fact, even if the original people behind the brand have since left, and for whatever reason, will not return. If the fanbase fondly remembers it, they’ll probably come. In 2006, and … Continue reading Macabre Month 5 Part II: Creepshow 3 (2006)
Horror anthologies have been a beloved staple for any fans of the genre, a chance for some classic chillers, in a condensed form, perfect for letting the imagination flow. In 1987, Tom Savini, Stephen King, and George Romero, three names that even the most passing … Continue reading Macabre Month 5 Part I: Creepshow 2 (1987)
Being a teenager can be tough, well, it certainly used to. Even though the specifics may have changed/evolved, the scars of peer pressure, humiliation and other challenges can leave hefty scars both psychologically and physically. In 2019, a bastion of apparent hospitality took a dark … Continue reading Macabre Month 4 Part X: Ma (2019)
It is said that life’s joy is in its fleeting nature, giving meaning to the struggles and victories that accumulate in a person’s existence, however well lived. Although some have challenged this notion. Cheating death has become more than just a conceptual backdrop for our … Continue reading Macabre Month 4 Part IX: Pet Sematary Two (1992)
The periodic angst of the inevitability of death is no stranger to the likes of you nor me. We all have different ways to process the grief, yet the common response is to wish the ghastly event didn’t even happen in the first place. Regardless … Continue reading Macabre Month 4 Part VIII: Pet Sematary (1989)
The Real Mr. Positive 