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Dan has reviewed 60 films tagged ‘2010s-horror’ during 2022.

  • Too Many Cooks

    Too Many Cooks 2014

    ★★★ Rewatched 29 Dec 2022 2

    Saturday Night Shorts: Film 81

    I've reviewed eighty short films for my Saturday Night Shorts project thus far, and most of them haven't been posted on a Saturday because I tend to forget. They're far more likely to be Monday Morning Shorts, but this is the first time that I didn't remember until Thursday.

    Ah well, better late than never. Thursday Morning Short it is.

    After watching Adult Swim Yule Log, also known as The Fireplace last week, I checked…

  • All the Creatures Were Stirring

    All the Creatures Were Stirring 2018

    ★★★ Watched 15 Dec 2022 1

    Wraparound Plot - (★★½) - Two lonely souls meet up to go on a date on Christmas Eve. They go to the only live theater in town that is open and watch performances of five Christmas horror stories.

    The Stockings Were Hung - (★★★) - What's an office Christmas party without a game of secret Santa? The employees of this particular office are in for a holiday surprise when deadly gas and a dangerous stranger's voice pipes into the room.…

  • How the 'Dook Stole Christmas

    How the 'Dook Stole Christmas 2014

    ★★ Watched 12 Dec 2022

    Saturday Night Shorts: Film 79

    It's Christmas Eve night. Santa Claus is out delivering presents when he encounters the sinister Babadook on a rooftop.

    A Babadook Christmas horror short? Perfect fodder for my Saturday Night Shorts project here in December. With a runtime of a mere forty-five seconds, there isn't much to say about this one. I predict it was probably an extra on the physical release. How the ’Dook Stole Christmas is a simple microscopic short that borrows the…

  • This Is the End

    This Is the End 2013

    ★★★½ Watched 18 Nov 2022

    "Wanna do a sequel to Pineapple Express?"

    "This shit is cray cray guys. It's like the real, fuck, it's the real fucking apocalypse!"

    Jay Baruchel is returning to Los Angeles so his best friend Seth Rogen picks him up at the airport. Jay is the typical introvert while Seth is the polar opposite extrovert. Jay just wants to hang out with his buddy but he is persuaded by Seth to go to John Franco's housewarming party where Craig Robinson, Jonah…

  • The Wind

    The Wind 2018

    ★★½ Watched 17 Nov 2022 2

    "It's coming for me...."

    Sometime in the 1800s Isaac Macklin and his wife Lizzie create a life for themselves in rural New Mexico. Now too long after Gideon Harper and his wife Emma arrive and set up a home of their own not too far away. The couples soon become friends. That is until the demon in the prairie makes itself known.

    November Westerns month continues, and even though I was a bit burned out from 31 Days of Horror…

  • Rings

    Rings 2017

    ★★ Watched 03 Nov 2022

    31 DAYS OF HORROR 2022 - Film 41

    "What do you think survival is!?"

    Two years after Samara appears on a plane to pursue her latest victim causing it to crash, Gabriel Brown buys that person's old VCR at a flea market. Inside is the cursed Samara tape with a label on it that says "watch me!" He teaches a class at a local college and puts together an experiment in which his students watch it one by one to…

  • The Smiling Man

    The Smiling Man 2015

    ★★★½ Watched 31 Oct 2022

    31 DAYS OF HORROR 2022 - Film 37

    Saturday Night Shorts: Film 72

    A little girl is slowly lured to the kitchen by a path of balloons tied to treats. A path that leads to the entity that's waiting for her.

    The Smiling Man is my latest find on the ALTER YouTube channel and the first of this last
    weekend's two entries in my Saturday Night Shorts project.

    A sense of tension is built throughout the entirety of The Smiling…

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street

    A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010

    ★★½ Rewatched 16 Oct 2022 6

    31 DAYS OF HORROR 2022 - Film 23

    "We were wrong. He's not after us because we lied...he's after us because we told the truth."

    The high school kids of Springwood are having nightmares. Nightmares of a burned figure with a striped sweater, a brimmed hat, and a glove with blades on the fingers. When some of those kids start dying, the survivors band together, trying their best not to sleep while uncovering secrets of the past. Secrets that lead…

  • Emptied

    Emptied 2014

    ★★★ Watched 09 Oct 2022

    31 DAYS OF HORROR 2022 - Film 15

    Saturday Night Shorts: Film 67

    In April, 2012, a dentist is visited by an ex-lover at the end of her shift. He has a toothache and she's willing to take care of it.

    Oh boy. I'm glad I can always depend on the ALTER YouTube channel. Emptied stars the always great Mackenzie Davis so that's always a plus, but if dentists and their chairs make you squeamish you need to run. Run…

  • The Home

    The Home 2017

    ★★★½ Rewatched 09 Oct 2022

    31 DAYS OF HORROR 2022 - Film 14

    Saturday Night Shorts: Film 66

    In a faraway time at a Catholic home for pregnant unwed mothers, a woman is confronted by the hungry evil that stalks the halls.

    I have a private list of shorts to keep in mind for my Saturday Night Shorts project but none of them seem to work this month, especially since I will be doing two per week in honor of 31 Days of Horror. So,…

  • Sinister 2

    Sinister 2 2015

    ★★½ Rewatched 03 Oct 2022

    31 DAYS OF HORROR 2022 - Film 8

    The Collins family, a single mother and her two sons move into a small rural house in an attempt to escape a troubled past. In this house one of her sons is lured to a box of 35mm films and a camera by a group of mysteriously evil children. Deputy So & So lost his job with the police force and became a private detective. It's a job hat affords him the ability…

  • Sinister

    Sinister 2012

    ★★★★ Rewatched 02 Oct 2022 4

    31 DAYS OF HORROR 2022 - Film 7

    Ellison Oswalt is a famous author of true crime books, loved by his fans and reviled by police for helping solve cases that they couldn't. While writing his new book he and his family move into the house that was once occupied by the murdered family that is the subject of his new novel. In the attic of this new house he discovers a crate of films in a box. Films that…

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