Speaking Volumes

In the early ‘90s I did a major research project for which I analyzed over 350 films. Ironically, it turned out, these were mostly horror films.  Quite nervous about it, I approached it with scientific precision: I watched the films in the bright, sterile environment of the university library, keeping clinical notes and reading up on special effects. It was still an … interesting process, but that’s another story.

 

After this? I am now uncomfortable to admit, I am the horror movie queen. Not only do they not bother me, but… they hold a special place in my heart. I’ve seen enough of them to catch the inside jokes, the referencing and to scoff at the more recent  film makers who substitute visceral gore for a good solid scare.

 

The sad truth is I have seen, in sequence all 12 of the Friday The 13^th series,  all 10 of the Halloween franchise (John Carpenter's and Rob Zombie’s) and all  7 (or 8 if you count Freddy vs. Jason) of the Nightmare on Elm Street series… just to name a few. In recent years the ‘gore factor’ has increased and my interest has waned. I miss the good old fashioned monsters, be it a vampire or Michael Myers.

 

Still, here at the Library we have a nice collection of frightful delights…

 

 

 Feast (Motion picture : 2006)

 

Remember the short lived television show, Project Greenlight? In the genre of reality TV, it followed a budding film maker through their first film making project. This film was their Horror project.

 

 

 

 Flatliners [DVD videorecording] / Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.

 

One of the early films of Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon and Keifer Sutherland, in which medical student’s near death experiments start to go a bit awry. 

 

 

 

 Army of darkness DVD [videorecording] / Dino De Laurentiis Communication presents a Renaissance Pictures Production.

 

I’ve written here before, I love Bruce Cambell… and how can one go wrong fighting a Medieval  army of the dead with a chainsaw? This film is a campy classic.

 

 

                 

Hocus pocus [DVD videorecording] / Walt Disney Pictures.

You can just never trust a witch, even if they are created by Disney.

 

 

 

 Mars attacks! [DVD videorecording] / Warner Bros. presents a film by Tim Burton.

 

Tim Burton’s aliens can certainly compete with Ridley Scott’s and  M. Night Shyamalan!