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Horror Thursday: The Haunted Strangler

Horror Thursday: The Haunted StranglerWhen I was reorganizing my records I use to keep track of what I’ve written about online, I came across a fact that disturbed me like no other. My film reviews since relaunching Sketchy Details a couple years ago have been overwhelmingly dominated by the 2000s. I do a lot more new release reviews than I did at the start of this back in 2004, but back then, I covered a lot of black and white films. I think it’s a shame that I’ve unintentionally abandoned classic cinema and will work on rectifying that in 2014.

Reviewing films like The Haunted Strangler is a good start. This Boris Karloff mystery/horror (oh, how I miss the mystery/horror as a genre) is so beautifully nuanced in a way that modern horror can never get away with. It’s not perfect (it just stops at the end instead of actually reaching a satisfying conclusion), but it’s a whole lot of fun to watch and dig into.

Horror Thursday: The Haunted Strangler

Larry Stu and the Deadly Space War (A Robert CBR6 Review)

Old Man's War by John ScalziMy 4th review is up for Cannonball Read 6. I looked at John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War and didn’t hate it. Really. The review focuses on the negative stuff because I could address it without spoiling the whole novel. It’s good. A little tepid, but good. Easy to read hard sci-fi like this is hard to find.

Larry Stu and the Deadly Space War (A Robert CBR6 Review)

Foreign Chops #19: Best of the 2000s

Foreign Chops #19: Best of the 2000s

Foreign Chops #19: Best of the 2000sAny chance I get to speak the good word of The Happiness of the Katakuris is a chance I’ll take. The new edition of Foreign Chops is up and it was a whole lot of fun to put together. I asked LAMB members to submit their choices for the best non-English films since 2000 and they delivered. Only three films–Amour, Let the Right One In, and The Raid: Redemption–appeared in multiple submissions. Every other title was heralded one time as the best of the best of global cinema. I have so many films to catch up on.

Foreign Chops #19: Best of the 2000s

Horror Thursday: Dream Home

Horror Thursday: Dream HomeDream Home took me for a bit of a loop. It’s a Hong Kong horror film about a female psychopath doing anything to buy her dream home. I used this review to breakdown the discomfort I had with a traditionally male character type in horror being applied to a female character. It’s a bold film, that’s for sure. They didn’t skimp on the blood or on casting just the right actor to play this murderer.

Horror Thursday: Dream Home