Category Archives: Movie Flashback

Even though it’s not scary or has nothing to do with ghosts or goblins, The Hollywood Knights is in the vein as a Halloween movie as Die Hard is a Christmas movie. And I’m saying this as someone who loves both movies. Set on Halloween night in 1965, the plot focuses on the titular characters,Continue reading “‘The Hollywood Knights’ Is A Different Halloween Movie”

With the latest Halloween Kills reportedly heading toward the $100 million mark, I’m looking at all the Halloween movies and ranking them. I’m also including the third one as well as will be give away some spoilers. The list is going worst to first. Halloween II (2009) – Rob Zombie’s follow-up to his 2007 remakeContinue reading “43 Years Of ‘Halloween’ Ranked”

Please note: There are spoilers below. While Jack Nicholson has become infamous for his role in Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Shining, Robin Williams was at one time considered. While that might seem odd, Kubrick said he later reconsidered seeking Williams because he deemed Williams would be too psychotic for theContinue reading “Robin Williams’ Journey To The Dark Side Produced Two Classic Thrillers”

It’s been said that Hollywood and the entertainment industry is an incestuous environment and by that I mean that people work together so much that there’s degrees of separation. Sometimes, producers, writers, actors and directors hear things on one set or at one party and pass it along to others. It’s not uncommon for twoContinue reading “Remember When 1981 Was The Year Of The Werewolf?”

Kathy Bates is one of my favorite actresses. She was basically an unknown character actor when she got her breakthrough role at 42 as Annie Wilkes in Misery. The movie is based on the Stephen King novel of the same name that he wrote following a fan backlash over his 1984 epic fantasy novel TheContinue reading “‘Misery’ Loves The Company Of Hero Syndrome”

When Bill Paxton passed away in 2017, his death came as a surprise to everyone. At 61, he seemed to be in perfect health, but he had a damaged aortic heart valve most of his life and on Feb. 14 of that year, he underwent open heart surgery and this led to complications that resultedContinue reading “‘Frailty’ Thy Name Is Bill Paxton’s Great Horror Masterpiece”

All film franchises have that one movie that is, for lack of a better word, a bastardization. A Nightmare on Elm Street had its version with the homoerotic Freddy’s Revenge in which it was Freddy Krueger working through a troubled teenage boy. This strayed from going after being in their dreams. Friday the 13th angeredContinue reading “We Need To Talk About ‘Halloween III’”

In the 2004 Bravo show 100 Scariest Movie Moments, Olivia Hussey, who appeared in the 1974 original Black Christmas recalled how she was brought into audition with Steve Martin for the 1987 romcom Roxanne. She said Martin was very excited and happy telling Hussey he had been wanting to meet her for years as sheContinue reading “‘Black Christmas’ The Original Nightmare Before Xmas”