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All Holiday Roads Lead to Rome

Pretty major SPOILERS for all three of these movies. It’s a Wonderful Knife – This is a riff on a certain movie of the same name you’ve probably heard of, with some slasher elements, although not as many as you … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Christmas, Cracker, Games, History, Holidays, Humor, Language, Magic, Music, Names, Roman Empire, Sports, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged caligula, colosseum, emperor caracalla, emperor geta, emperor marcus aurelius, emperor marcus opellius macrinus, gladiator ii, it's a wonderful knife, justin long, monkeys, nightmare on elm street, rhinoceros, the coffee table |

Goodbye Heart

Street Trash – This comedy horror film from 1987 starts with a New York City liquor store owner finds some unidentified liquid in his shop and sells it to homeless people. It turns out to be a corrosive substance that … Continue reading →

Posted in Dreams, Humor, Sexuality, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged aids, david chaskin, freddy krueger, hello mary lou: prom night 2, homophobia, homosexuality, mark patton, nightmare on elm street, nightmare on elm street 2: freddy's revenge, prom night, scream queen, street trash |

Quoth the Craven

We got some sad news last week when director Wes Craven died of brain cancer at the age of seventy-six. I wasn’t aware he had cancer until then. Craven was known as the director of A Nightmare on Elm Street … Continue reading →

Death by Common Household Item

I’ve looked before at the Wicked Witch of the West’s vulnerability to water, and mentioned how Ruth Plumly Thompson extended this weakness to dragons and ogres. It’s also the weakness of the aliens from Signs, prompting the frequently asked question … Continue reading →

Posted in Fairy Tales, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Urban Legends | Tagged aliens, dragons, dwarves, fairies, freddy krueger, george macdonald, goblins, holy water, nightmare on elm street, nomes, ogres, signs, trolls, twilight, vampires, wicked witch of the west, witches |

Frightening Film Files

You might well know by now that my wife is a fan of the horror genre, and during October that sort of movie is pretty much all we get from Netflix. Here are the ones we watched this year that … Continue reading →

Posted in VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged behind the mask: the rise of leslie vernon, chopping mall, cropsey, cropsy, david cronenberg, friday the 13th, geena davis, insidious, jason alexander, jason voorhees, jeff goldblum, kane hodder, leigh whannell, nightmare on elm street, robert englund, the burning, the fly, the machinist, tiny tim, tucker and dale vs. evil |

I Do Believe in Spooks

Happy Halloween! Here’s a look at the latest Netflix selections Beth and I watched. Hatchet II – We saw the first one a while back, but I don’t know that I wrote anything about it. It was basically a slasher … Continue reading →

Posted in Halloween, Holidays, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged beetlejuice, freddy krueger, freddy's dead, hatchet, hatchet ii, never sleep again, nightmare on elm street, satan's little helper, tony todd, trick 'r treat, wes craven's new nightmare |

A Remake on Elm Street

On Friday night, Beth and I saw the latest in the long line of horror movie remakes, this time of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Based on other such remakes, you’d expect that they really upped the sex, drugs, and … Continue reading →