I guess you could classify “Scare Package” as a horror movie, and yes even a horror comedy. But if my arm were twisted I’d be more comfortable just classifying it as a comedy. “Scare Package” is that movie that has a great time breaking down horror tropes and satirizing the clichés we’ve seen in various horror movies, but never actually includes any kind of scary content. Every single segment in this anthology is played with a tongue in cheek, and it’s a shame since a movie with this concept has a chance to re-imagine horror tropes.
Category Archives: Halloween Horror Month
Five Great Latinx Horror Movie Heroes
It’s tough finding good Latinx Horror Movie heroes or heroines of any kind. Most latinx characters in horror and or genre films are gangsters, criminals, or cannon fodder. And if they are heroes, they’re either blithering priests, or nuns. I’m still waiting for an every guy or every gal like Laurie Strode or Tommy Jarvis but of the Latinx or Hispanic persuasion. Thanks to the accessibility of modern filmmaking tools, we’re getting to see a much more diverse roster of horror heroes and heroines, but I hope we can see more, very soon; especially in light of “Hispanic Heritage Month” recently ending on the 15th.
In either case, here are five great Latinx horror heroes and heroines.
Stay Home, Watch Horror for Peacock-tober
Peacock is giving streamers something to scream about with over 20 hand-curated horror collections including “Horror Stans” for cinephiles and “Hauntings & Possessions” with content that is guaranteed to keep viewers up at night.
These collections contain hundreds of titles and feature Universal monster classics like Dracula and Frankenstein, cult classics like Videodrome and It Follows, and modern psychological horrors like Kevin Bacon’s You Should Have Left. There is even a collection devoted to the master of suspense himself: Alfred Hitchcock – his legendary thriller Psycho is streaming exclusively on Peacock as it celebrates its 60th anniversary, and fans can watch interviews with surviving cast and crew members in the newly added documentary The Making of ‘Psycho’.
You can find more at https://www.peacocktv.com/holiday/halloween
Shorts Round Up of the Week: October Terrors, Part II: The Sequel
Halfway through October already? I wish we could have a few more days to revel in the holiday, but alas. With our festivities in full swing, I checked out more short horror films for your Halloween viewing pleasure! Have a safe, fun Halloween, all.
Warning: Some of the reviews include the short films, while others are just the teaser.
If you’d like to submit your short film for review consideration, submissions are always opened to filmmakers and producers.
Never Hike in the Snow: A Friday the 13th Fan Film (2020)
With the fate of the movie series still up in the air, the likelihood of “Friday the 13th” fans getting a new film within the next three years seems like pipe dreams. The fan community has managed to keep the franchise alive, though, including Vincente DiSanti. After his incredibly popular 2017 fan film “Never Hike Alone,” DiSanti continues his take on the series, this time giving fans what we’ve been asking for, since “The New Blood”: Jason Voorhees slashing his way through the snowy terrain of Crystal Lake.
Fan Theory: Roy Burns is possessed by Jason Voorhees in “A New Beginning”
There’s some supernatural element in “Friday the 13th” that doesn’t fully reveal itself until “Jason Lives.” Before that, Jason was more of a mortal superhuman capable of being killed and he is presumably stopped in “The Final Chapter.” In Danny Steinmann’s “A New Beginning,” Jason is definitely dead and Tommy has difficulty moving on as he’s haunted by Jason’s image time and time again. Since the fifth film apparently still takes place in the town of Crystal Lake, Tommy is still facing the trauma of battling Jason, even though it’s established he’s buried.
You Have to See This! Terror Tract (2000)
Lance W. Dreesen and Clint Hutchison’s horror anthology is a movie that’s managed to slip under the radar and remain fairly obscure. Even in the age where old titles are being revived for physical releases, and even in the age of the anthology renaissance, not too many people talk about “Terror Tract.” It’s a shame, since the 2000 horror film is a bold mix of terror, dark comedy, and zany violence that make it feel like an EC Comic that is slowly losing its sanity as it unfolds. You wouldn’t think that the late John Ritter could have been a great person to lead such a stellar horror anthology, but he’s top notch in a film that’s so unfairly overlooked.