Tag: Michael Myers

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Terrifier Reviewed by Jonny Numb

    Terrifier I love ya, horror, but there are times when you just don’t get it right. You know what I’m talking about, and a lot of filmmakers use it like clockwork: When all else fails, fill the screen with gore. But wait – bloodshed and fear are synonymous concepts, right? Hardly. The worst examples of…