Category: Movies

Christmas horrors – year 2

VinceH

A little over a year ago, because I’d spotted a number of Christmas-related horror films, I decided to have a little fun by watching twenty four in the run up to Christmas Day. The idea was to take the concept of an advent calendar, but instead of opening the doors and getting a bit of chocolate each day, I’d (only metaphorically) open a door, and watch a suitable horror film. The year ended with twenty four films watched, and a list of over 183 potential films for future enjoyment. One…

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‘Tis the season to watch horror

VinceH

Tra-lala-lala… lala-la-la If you know me well, you’ll know I don’t ‘do’ Christmas – and you’ll know why. If you don’t, it’s because Christmas is a religious festival and I’m not just a non-believer, I also have a very strong dislike of religion in general, with a particular distaste for Christianity and its variations – the very religion that Christmas is a key part of. As such, for me Christmas is a period where the society in which I live becomes very annoying, and I like to switch off from…

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Named that film

VinceH

A recent conversation in the comments section of a post on Rick Murray’s blog saw Rick trying to identify an old children’s TV show. It reminded me of the time I was trying to identify something from a memory of one basic scene.

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The curious coincidence of ‘Carriers’ and ‘The Crazies’

VinceH

Okay, it’s not that interesting – in fact pretty boring – but when it happened, the absolutely amazing alliteration advanced itself into my mind and I just wanted to use it. Basically, the  complete non-story is that when I gave my nephew a lift somewhere yesterday, he commented that he’d been to the cinema the night before and seen a trailer for a film that was about some kind of virus, but it made him think of zombies due to the what happens to the infected, the way they behaved.…

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