Tag: alien

  • Go-to Horror by Crash

    Go-to Horror: The Why Behind the Rewatch Oftentimes, I’ll sit for up to 40 minutes rummaging through a search of horror movies on Amazon Prime and Netflix. This usually leaves to utter disappointment. Granted, I may succumb and check out a newly added horror on either venue, even though I know it will fall flat.…

  • Top 10 Alien Horror Films by Crash

    Alien Horror Films: The Best Sure, Alien horror films falls under “horror/science-fiction” but this is specifically about aliens and how they have wormed their way into our human existence. Some may be fun, some obscure, and others are downright frightening. The frightening alien horror films bring pure terror and hopelessness – and that’s most definitely…

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Origin Stories

    Origin Stories: The Good, the Bad, and the Horrible  Origin stories can make or break a franchise. Granted, the horror genre is prone to introducing the back story of a character during the first film, but even that can prove fatal. Leading off with the origin stories for The Ring and Brightburn may have resonated, but did…

  • Kill Character Stereotypes by Crash

    The Trope of it All… Crash Palace has written about tropes before, and Jonny Numb and Billy Crash have discussed them on The Last Knock horror podcast. Why? Because they’re redundancies and create an eye-rolling foray into malaise. They must be stopped. What’s worse? Character stereotypes. And they must be stopped even more. Stock Characters…

  • Crawl or Die Revisited: Fifth Anniversary by Crash

    Crawl or Die Revisited: Time to Celebrate Five years ago, I sat in front of a large screen television to indulge in Oklahoma Ward’s sci-fi horror, Crawl or Die, starring Nicole Alonso as Tank. This became one of those rare occasions where I got to know the filmmaker and the talent, which led to a…