Tag: John Carpenter

  • Halloween Ends by Jonny Numb

    Halloween Ends: The Shape-shifter This review contains SPOILERS It’s a silly nitpick, but I don’t like the credit font in Halloween Ends. It’s pulled from Season of the Witch, that once-maligned, now-(mostly) celebrated third entry in the original series (you know, the one that had nothing to do with boring ‘ol Michael Myers). Feels like…

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Rob Zombie’s Halloween

    Rob Zombie’s Halloween: Turning the Knife 15 Times  Rob Zombie’s Halloween reboot from Dimension Films has been trashed by many a horror fan over the past fifteen years. Granted, this comes from those enamored with John Carpenter’s original from 1978. Well, it’s hard to argue when many consider the Carpenter version to be the penultimate slasher…

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Cold Horror

    Cold Horror: Six Frosty Picks for the Season Sure there’s holiday cheer for whatever you’re celebrating, but if you live in the right place on our big blue marble it can be friggin’ cold! And this is why Numb and Crash have picked six cold horror films to make your world even frostier. Cold as…

  • The Autopsy of Jane Doe Five Year Anniversary by Crash

    The Autopsy of Jane Doe: Morgue Check-in In December 2016, André Øvredal unleashed The Autopsy of Jane Doe upon the world.   Starring the great Brian Cox as Tommy Tilden, with Emile Hirsch as his son Austin, the pair run a funeral home. Due to a pressing case of multiple murders, Sheriff Burke (Michael McElhatton)…

  • Halloween Kills by Jonny Numb

    Halloween Kills: The Specter of Looming Expectation (This review contains SPOILERS) The real boogeyman hanging over 2018’s Halloween was not Michael Myers, but the specter of looming expectation. After all, this was the film that wiped the prior sequel-slate clean to deliver what was thought to be the definitive sequel to 1978’s Halloween. Director David…