Category: Movies

How I Watch 100 Horror Movies in 92 Days

How I Watch 100 Horror Movies in 92 Days
Posted July 27, 2024
Movies

Hi friends! At the time of me writing this post, it is less than 100 days until Halloween, but for people like me, it’s always Halloween. Although I indulge in horror content all year round, this is the time where my horror habits go up to 11 and it becomes pretty much the only thing I watch. If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll probably know that for the past two years I’ve taken part in the 100 Horror Movies in 92 Days challenge. It can be a tough challenge and I’ve watched a lot of garbage, but it’s also a fun one. This challenge was created by Spooky Sarah Says and you can find the full guidelines for the challenge on her blog, but the basic idea is this: watch 100 horror movies that you’ve never seen before in 92 days, starting on August 1 and ending on October 31. Sounds easy, right? Well, yes, in theory. In practise, it can be a lot harder than you thought. 92 days is both a long time and not a lot of time at all so you’ve got a lot of movies to fit in. So, how do I do it without burning out or […]

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15 Weird, Wild and Shocking Movies to Watch After ‘Saltburn’ and ‘Poor Things’

15 Weird, Wild and Shocking Movies to Watch After ‘Saltburn’ and ‘Poor Things’
Posted February 3, 2024
Lists, Movies

Hello again! đŸ‘‹đŸ» Recently two movies have been causing a bit of a commotion and getting a bit of a reputation for being quite ‘shocking’: Saltburn and Poor Things. I watched both of them to see how they fared when compared to things that I usually watch, and my takeaway was that they’re not that shocking.  Actually, I didn’t like Saltburn. I thought it was a boring drama about rich people being leeched on by ‘poor’ people with nudity and couple of weird sex things that aren’t that scandalous. Poor Things was a lot better because it was funny, had characters that were interesting, but I still didn’t think it was that shocking. Yes, it’s about a woman who has a child’s brain and grows up over the course of the movie, but it’s still just people having sex. And that doesn’t shock me because I’m an adult and I’m also not a prude. If you’re looking for things that are more scandalous than Saltburn or Poor Things, you’ve come to the right place because these are some of the weirdest and wildest movies that I’ve seen. But if you’re thinking ‘hey, you missed this one’ it’s because I either didn’t think it was that shocking or I haven’t seen […]

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My Favourite Sci-Fi Horrors

My Favourite Sci-Fi Horrors
Posted November 7, 2023
Books, Lists, Movies, Sci-Fi Month

Hi crew! đŸ‘‹đŸ» If you couldn’t tell, my two favourite genres are sci-fi and horror, so when the two are combined, I’m always going to be interested. Picking a list of my favourites was oddly easy for movies, but a lot harder for books. It seems that I need to seek out sci-fi horror books more often to see what books are out there. Personally, I think that sci-fi and horror make for a good combination because what’s scarier that what we don’t know? And science is all about finding out things we don’t know, whether that’s out in space or here on Earth. Sometimes Earth is scarier… alien (1979) The general consensus among sci-fi fans is that Aliens is the best movie in this series, but I completely disagree with that. I much prefer the atmosphere and the characters in Alien and the ‘haunted house but in space’ theme has always appealed to me more than the action-oriented Aliens. Yeah, there are more aliens and the Queen is in that one, but I just don’t care for the characters: the Marines are all total meatheads and Newt committed the cardinal sin of being a child in a movie. But anyway, Alien is always the movie that […]

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Asian Horror on My TBR and Watchlist

Asian Horror on My TBR and Watchlist
Posted October 7, 2023
Books, Movies, Spooky Month, TBR Lists, Watchlists

Hi ghouls, long time so see! đŸ‘‹đŸ» I am always looking for ways to diversify my reading and watching habits, especially when it comes to horror. Different cultures have different things that they find scary and it’s always fascinating to learn about past and present social issues that influence stories as well as folklore and mythology. Originally, this post was just about Japanese horror but I decided to branch out and look for horror from all over Asia and from Asian diaspora people all over the world. Asia’s a big place with a huge amount of different cultures so it’s not fair to narrow what I’m looking for down to just one single country. An unfortunate thing I ran into when compiling this list was a big lack of South Asian horror and almost next to nothing from West Asia or the Middle East. A lot of people still forget that Asia is not just China, Korea and Japan so a lot of what I found is from East and Southeast Asia. (i did a class on orientalism in literature when i was in university and one classmate complained the whole time that we didn’t look at any chinese literature, […]

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I Watched the Winnie-the-Pooh Horror Movie and It Was Bad

I Watched the Winnie-the-Pooh Horror Movie and It Was Bad
Posted March 25, 2023
Movie Reviews, Movies

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey Director: Rhys Frake-Waterfield Cast: Nikolai Leon, Maria Taylor, Craig David Dowsett, and Chris Cordell Based on: Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne Released: 10 March 2023 (UK) Run time: 84 mins (1h, 24m) Age rating: 18 / R My rating: Oh, bother. The days of adventures and merriment have come to an end, as Christopher Robin – now a young man – has left Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet to fend for themselves. As time passes, feeling angry and abandoned, the two become feral. After getting a taste of blood, Pooh and Piglet set off to find a new source of food. It’s not long before their bloody rampage begins… Well. This was indeed a set of pictures in motion with sound. Was it good? Of course not, it’s a slasher movie based on a beloved children’s character that just went into the US public domain (but is also still protected under UK copyright law, which is where the movie was made). The biggest problem with this movie, I feel, is that it takes itself too seriously. I’m usually a fan of movies with ridiculous premises that are taken seriously because they can work, but this movie is so stark and bleak that it’s not […]

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