Tales of Halloween is a horror anthology that mostly sits on the shitty side of the scale, but it has it's bright spots. Its certainly not as awful as Deadtime Stories or Watch if you Dare, but certainly not great like Creepshow either. This one is more on par with mid level anthologies like Body Bags and that is a shame when considering the solid cast featuring names like Adrienne Barbeau, Lin Shaye, Adam Green, and Barbara Crampton as well…
Reviews tagged ‘creature’ by Dan Abel Patron
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Sting 2024
Charlotte is a young girl with a wild imagination. In her free time, she travels through her apartment building's ventilation ducts, getting herself into all kinds of mischief. One day during a meteor shower, a tiny piece of space material lands in the building and a spider emerges from it. Not knowing its origins, Charlotte takes it home and quickly discovers that it's highly intelligent, growing rapidly, and insatiably hungry.
Let me preface this by saying I absolutely hate spiders…
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Butterfly Kisses 2018
Gavin York is a struggling filmmaker who stumbles upon a box of tapes left behind by two teenagers who were aspiring filmmakers themselves. The box is ominously labeled "DON'T WATCH!" Undeterred, Gavin dives into the roughly forty uncut tapes, piecing them together to complete what the teens never did, eleven years ago. As he delves deeper, he learns the tapes document their investigation into a local urban legend, The Peeping Tom, a supernatural entity said to get closer every time…
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Krull 1983
"From the sky will come the Black Fortress. From the Fortress will come the Slayers to devour the planet of Krull. Then shall a girl of ancient name become queen...she shall choose a king...and together they shall rule the planet, and their son shall rule the galaxy."
The world of Krull is invaded by an alien menace known as The Beast with his army "The Slayers," who quickly spread destruction on a quest to take over the world. With impending…
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Scariest Monsters in America 2022
Scariest Monsters in America is another entry in the Tubi original Scaristest series of documentaries that harken back to the old television shows featuring questionable "experts" of the strange, paranormal, and supernatural on both network and cable television. Those shows were basically the prerequisite to the once popular YouTube "list channels" in which a topic would be broken down into a "Top 10" list of short summaries that all focus on a primary subject.
This documentary covers what it deems…
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978
31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 34
"There's no need for hate, now, or love."
Citizens of San Francisco become alarmed when they start noticing that people they've known their entire lives have changed. Not physically, but on a personal and emotional level, becoming almost drone-like. Matthew and Elizabeth, who both work for the San Francisco Department of Health and take pride in their work, start to notice the same unsettling pattern, and it’s spreading fast. Worst of all,…
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Don't Look Away 2017
31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 33
Saturday Night Shorts: Film 267
A young woman is putting on her makeup one morning and looks out the window to see a terrifying sight in her back yard. A creepy individual in a mask staring up at her window. Her father calls her on the phone and she describes the situation to him only to get an unexpected response. "DON'T LOOK AWAY!"
Don't Look Away is a solid short film that…
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Oddity 2024
31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 25
Dani is beckoned to the door of a new house she's renovating by a strange individual. The next day, she's found murdered in a gruesome fashion. It's been almost a year since her twin sister Dani died that night, in what everyone believes was the work of a psychopath. Her twin, Darcy, who is blind and owns an antique shop brimming with macabre objects, reconnects with her ex-brother-in-law to dive deeper into…
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The Hag 2017
31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 24
Saturday Night Shorts: Film 264
"Let me in..."
A woman goes to sleep at night only to be started by a horrifying lurking presence in the dark.
Countless horror films are terrible at nailing the aspect of darkness. Sometimes even on purpose to hide the shortcomings of a low budget or less than stellar looking entity. The Hag is not one of those, in fact it does an excellent job at pairing…
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Tilly 2016
31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 23
Saturday Night Shorts: Film 263
"1, 2, 3 nothing scares me!"
A young girl screams for her father in the middle of the night after hearing a monster in her room.
One of my favorite places on the internet to find micro-doses of horror is the Crypt TV YouTube channel, and it's there that I found this awesome short. Here we take an eight minute journey full of twists during the unravelling…
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The Relic 1997
31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 22
A scientist ships a relic from Brazil back to Chicago's Museum of Natural History. A relic that unleashes an ancient creature in the museum. A homicide detective and another scientist join forces to figure out what is causing the rash of gory killings which all have one thing in common. A missing piece of the brain.
The Relic is one of those late 1990s films that I saw a million times when…
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Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin 2021
31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 21
An adopted documentary filmmaker aims to interview her first known biological relative, Samuel, a man who recently left the Amish community. When she meets him he brings her and her friends back to the family farm where she is invited to spend a few days. During her time on the farm she discovers far more than she could have ever expected. Something evil. This is their footage.
Its been a busy week…