Tag: Halloween
Geeks + Gamers Staff Halloween Picks: Comic Books
The spookiest of seasons is upon us, and to appease the Ancient Gods of junk culture, nothing is closer to those old penny dreadfuls which saw the birth of Gothic Romances from Victorian times (spawning those scary, gory, and graphic stories appealing to humanity’s most primal and darkest inst...
Read MoreYou Should Be Watching: The Monster Squad (1987)
Welcome back to You Should Be Watching, where I recommend movies and TV series that deserve more love. In keeping with my theme of films for Halloween and good movies to watch around this time of year, this week we’re facing Dracula with The Monster Squad. This film serves as a distinctly 80&#...
Read MoreREVIEW: Halloween (2018)
Halloween (2018) takes place 40 years after the original film, completely wiping the slate clean of any sequels or over-complications. The Shape has been incarcerated ever since that fateful Halloween night in 1978, until he breaks out of a transport bus and heads to Haddonfield to wreak havoc. Litt...
Read MoreYou Should Be Watching: Paranorman (2012)
“I didn’t ask to be born this way.” “Funny, neither did we.” Welcome back to You Should Be Watching, where I recommend movies and TV shows that deserve more attention than they’ve gotten. In keeping with the Halloween theme I’ve adopted for the season, this week we’ll be comm...
Read MoreREVIEW: Hell Fest (2018)
A traveling horror park, a group of friends looking for scares, and a merciless killer stalking them; this is the very simple setup for Hell Fest. I’ll admit that it was an intriguing one. I’ve always loved those kinds of horror festivals and mazes, and the concept of someone disguising themselv...
Read MoreREVIEW: The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)
“There’s a clock in the walls. We don’t know what it does, except… something horrible.” Last Friday, Universal released The House with a Clock in Its Walls, based on the 1973 John Bellairs children’s mystery novel of the same name. I had never read or heard of the book, but t...
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