Tag: Holiday Horror

‘Tis the Season for Christmas Horror – By Baron Craze

November 12, 2022
Articles

I know what you’re likely to say it’s too early to think about this, but is it, really? The stores are already filling up on Christmas and holiday items, early Back Friday sales flooding the market and so is it on the net, and that (ugh) Hallmark Channel, they start airing holiday programing earlier and…

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To All A Goodnight (1980) – By Baron Craze

December 24, 2020
Film Reviews

If I were to quiz horror fans, similar to the style in Scream [1996] and stated name the movie that someone killing in revenge of a child dying and it included a doomsayer named Ralph, the answer is easy Friday the 13th – except once again you are wrong, it’s this movie. According the trivia…

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Elves (1989) – By Baron Craze

December 22, 2020
Film Reviews

Christmas horror movies will always be that unique niche market, a true subgenre of late, in the 70s and into the 80s it was a common one-off film for the season, but with the incorporation of nutty storylines, Krampus, St Nick, and Elves it all allowed for hell to freeze over unleashing blood good cheer,…

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All The Creatures Were Stirring Gets UK Release News

November 21, 2020
Horror News

NOVEMBER 23RD   Danse Macabre is pleased to announce the UK and Irish DVD and VOD release of Rebekah and David Ian McKendry’s Christmas themed horror ALL THE CREATURES WERE STIRRING. Constance Wu (Hustlers) and Jonathan Kite (2 Broke Girls) headline a sensational cast in this devilish stocking stuffer of a movie in which an awkward date leads a…

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New Year’s Evil (1980) – By Baron Craze

November 30, 2019
Film Reviews

As is common with the horror genre the holidays get horror films related to them, Halloween obviously Halloween (1978), Christmas (Black Christmas [1974]), and Valentine’s Day (My Bloody Valentine [1981]), just to name a few, and therefore New Year’s Eve, finally got into the mix in 1981, with this flick that is very dated and…

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Holidays (2016) – By Baron Craze

December 31, 2018
Archived Reviews

Anthology horror films continue the strong resurgence and find themselves in demand of many horror fans, looking for the upcoming stars and those bucking the Hollywood elite system of watered down horrific tales. “Holidays” designs an engaging topic by covering the entire year of what is normally subjected to dreadful pigeonholing with no expansion to…

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Surviving the Holidays: Slashing Away Part 2 (Dec 16 to 31) – By Baron Craze

November 30, 2018
Articles

December 16th Dismembering Christmas (2015) there’s just something about this title I find amusing, perhaps it reminds of I Dismember Mama (1972), but anyway it follows the slasher playbook, with seven high schoolers shacking up in a winter lake house while someone seeks to see their insides at any cost. I suppose this madman seeks…

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Ugly Sweater Party (2018) – By Baron Craze

November 30, 2018
Film Reviews

First, before starting this review, I know the director, met him personally in 2008 at the Terror Film Festival, in Philadelphia, PA where I saw his short film Absent (2008), which made the Hollywood film Teaching Mrs. Tingle look like a g-rated production, his work contained scenes of brutalization and mass suicide of evil portions;…

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Surviving the Holidays: Slashing Away Part 1 (Dec 1 to 15) – By Baron Craze

November 30, 2018
Articles

When this article was originally done in 2014, with the title Surviving the Holidays: Slashing and Slaying Santa Claus for the now defunct Rogue cinema site it was truly a major undertaking, and tallied slightly over 5,000 words. Therefore, it is only proper to return to this credible article, and update it vastly, and hence…

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All the Creatures Were Stirring (2018) – By Baron Craze

November 30, 2018
Film Reviews

David Ian and Rebekah McKendry wrote and directed this latest anthology feature of a Christmas horror film while making sure to drown it in the festive color lights, and wintry mix, rather making sure to let the stories and actors themselves star in the production, and thereby allowing them to advance it on their own….

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