Horror Caviar

It's getting close to that time of year......Halloween season! What better way to celebrate the month of horror than with the 31 Day Horror Movie Challenge. I did this last year where I watched 1 horror movie each day for the entire month of October. There is a variety of ways that you can do this challenge. You can watch horror movies or answer a variety of horror movie related questions that are floating around the interwebs.  This year I am going to do something a little different I am going to do 2 types of 31 Horror Movie Challenges. I am going to once again watch 1 horror movie a day and post a review here with an emphasize on horror I haven't watched. I am also going to answer the challenge questions below and will post my answers on Instagram , you can follow me by clicking on the link. I encourage everyone to try this and even if you can't complete all the days some participation is better than none. If you need horror movie suggestions you are welcome to hit...

13 Reasons It's Awesome to be a Horror Fan In celebration of Friday the 13th and the Halloween season I thought I would share 13 reasons why I think it's awesome to be a horror fan. Plus Dr. Lector also thinks if I start making lists it will help channel my "creativity" in a more postitive direction. 1.  We have an entire month dedicated to us  - I know being a horror fan is a lifestyle and not just about celebrating it for 31 days, but it is still fun to have an entire month pretty much catered to us. Any store you go into during the month of October has some kind of horror element to it. You can go to Walgreens pick up your prescription and grab a giant spider for your lawn or cobwebs to hang in your house. Other holidays give you a week max to buy their stuff, but with horror and Halloween you can count the entire month of October and even the month before it and several days after Halloween that is still devoted to all things horror. Then you have the horro...

Okay so I almost didn't get to see the The World's End because it seems I had not accumulated enough of the required "behavior points" in order for this type of extracurricular activity due to an "incident" the previous week. Look, I'm sorry, but anyone who goes around saying World War Z is the greatest zombie movie ever made is just asking to be attacked with a spork....regardless of how many degrees they have. But, thankfully Doctor Lector felt that my failure to see this movie would be a determent to any further therapy regarding my fangirl ways. I do appreciate him seeing the logic and reasoning of why I had to see this movie and after viewing the film I stopped off and picked him up a nice bottle of Chianti to thank him. When slacker Gary King decides to convince his 4 best friends from childhood to complete the Golden Mile, which consists of 12 pubs, one night with the goal to make it to the final pub, The World's End. Gary and the guys so...

1.  We'll all just sit here and wait for this whole thing to blow over  - I hear a lot of people say that they will just stay at home until the zombie outbreak is over. But, face facts even Shaun had to leave The Winchester.....why.....because it became overrun with zombies....and eventually this will happen too. In the event your shelter is not overrun with zombies there is a high chance that you will run out of supplies, electricity, food, water, etc and you will be forced to move in order to find resources. Even on the off chance that you are heavily stocked you still run the risk of someone or a group of individuals overrunning your shelter and forcing you to leave or stealing your supplies, which goes back to eventually you will have to leave The Winchester, i.e. your shelter.  2.  Thinking that you will stock up at the grocery & gun store  - Have you ever lived in a small town and they announce there is a possible snow storm coming and you dec...

Hatchet III  - Victor Crowley is back!! The latest installment of the Hatchet series finds us starting off right where the last one left off with Mary Beth (Danielle Harris) blowing Victor's head off. But, as every horror fan knows there is no simple way to kill a slasher....even if you did blow half his face off. Grabbing a shotgun and the scalp of Crowley Mary Beth walks through the New Orleans swamp to turn herself in and claim the title of killing Victor Crowley....ohhh if only it were that easy. As you know you can never keep a good slasher down and Victor is ready to tear it up in the swamps tonight. With this third installment I think Victor Crowley is edging his way into becoming a slasher icon, due in part to the stability that this franchise has maintained. The first Hatchet was a fun, ultra bloody and gory romp with old school effects that horror fans could appreciate. The second Hatchet was a bit of a stumble with subpar kills and the charm of the first film just w...

You're Next  - History has taught us family reunions don't always end well. They certainly don't end well when the guests are being picked off one by one by masked assailants  So, marks the story for You're Next. When a family comes together to celebrate their parents wedding anniversary it's all fun and games until someone shots their eye out or in this case takes an arrow to the head. Directed by Adam Wingard this film harkens back to the great slasher style films of the 70's and 80's in terms of overall tone and filming. Even though it took almost 2 years to reach theaters in most aspects it was worth the wait. This film has those elements that make horror good with annoying characters you can't wait to die, unexpected and at times fun kills, plot twists and turns and of course blood and more blood. I will admit that at times it does play off like a sequel to The Strangers, which by no means is a negative considering how great The Strangers was....

The Loved Ones  - As most know prom can be that magical event you will never forget or if you are like Brent and turn down a girl's invitation to prom, it really does end up being a night he will never forget! As Brent deals with a family tragedy getting high and checking out seems to be his only goal in life. So, when Lola asks him to the dance and he declines, Brent soon learns that turning down a girl and be a tortuous experience. I realize I am late to the party on viewing this film considering it came out in 2009, but Fearnet had it on and I had been really wanting to see it. I  really enjoy this flick and I would love to see Australian horror gain a footing over here because they know how to do horror.  The Loved Ones has some nice twists and turns I didn't see coming, which are always great moments in horror.  Even though Lola is completely sinister and evil throughout this film, you still feel a shred of sympathy for her.  There is a feeling of unea...