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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Currently watching The Devil from Mill Mountain from the new Eureka boxset Into The Forest. It's so gorgeous.

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

RIP Len Deighton - you gave us Harry Palmer, alternative history and how to cook lamb 3 ways.

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Released on this day, 21 October 1981, The Dead Zone. Based on the Stephen King book of the same name. Martin Sheen plays a politician who will do anything to get into power and could lead to an apocalypse, oo-er. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Released on this day 20 October 1932, The Old Dark House. Influential enough to get its own genre, it wasn't the first but had a legacy just as much as Dracula & Frankenstein though rarely spoken of. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Released on this day 19 October 1990, Night of the Living Dead. While the original is iconic, the remake is the better film and I always wonder what could have been without studio interference. Tom Savini directs and does the fx. Really is a cracker of a film. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Released on this day, 18 October 1985, Re-Animator. The film that introduced a new generation to HP Lovecraft and made Jeffery Combs a cult icon. 1st 2 films are great fun, the 3rd is a bit muddled but would love to see a remake with a decent budget. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

released on this day 17 October 1971m Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde. One of my favourite Hammer horrors, not without it's flaws in this tale that borrows heavily from the Jack the Ripper & Burke and Hare mythos'. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Released on this day, 16 October 1998, Bride of Chucky. I enjoy of all of Chucky's outings, they're perfect popcorn horror. I'm also 3 days behind with posting due to sickness. So here's a horror binge! #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Has anybody else seen Green Grass? I feel like I'm in a very select group. #filmsky

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Released on this day, 15th October 1981, Evil Dead. Banned in the UK as part of the video nasty hysteria it spawned sequels and a fun TV series. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Released on this day, 14 October 1988. Pumpkinhead. Didn't click with this tale of father using a witch to call forth a vengeance demon starring Lance Hendrickson. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Released on this day 13 October 1989, I Madman. A gruesome serial killer comes to life from the pages of a book in this entertaining slasher that no one talks about any more. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Released on this day, 12 October 1989, Puppet Master. I've lost count of the sequels and spin off from this series. I really wanted to like this and with a better budget perhaps I could have. But I'm in the minority here. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Released on this day, 11 October 1974, Black Christmas. 2 remakes for this genre defining number from Bob Clark of Porky's and A Christmas Story. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Released on this day, 10 October 1975, Shivers. Made on a budget of CAD$180k this tale of parasites that turn people into sex maniacs made $5m at the box office. Cronenburg followed up with Rapid which I guess it a spiritual sequel. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Released on this day, 9 October 2007, Wrong Turn 2. One of those rare occasion (imho) where the sequel is better than the first film. The Wrong Turn franchise is rarely visited, but I genuinely like them all, even the bad ones. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Released on this day, 8 October 2010, I Spit On Your Grave. Remake of the genre defining 1978 classic. As a remake it's not too bad, but lacks the punch and grittiness of the original and in a world of Hostels and Saws, it lack oomph. Spawned 2 sequels. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Post a film with an excellent soundtrack. 🎶 🎵

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Released on this day, 7 October 1995, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation. A troubled production saw a title change, cuts and parties suing one another. And of course we get to see young Renée Zellweger & Matthew McConaughey It's a bit shit. bit funny. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Released on this day, 6 October 2006, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Not very good prequel that lost to Basic Instinct 2 at the Razzies - which tells you all you need to know I guess. It does feature Diora Baird though, which is noice. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I was lucky enough to see a preview screening of I Swear tonight. It tells the true story of John Davidson; diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome at a young age which alienated him from his peers, he struggled with a condition few people had witnessed. It both funny and moving. Go see it #film #iswear

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Released on this day, 5 October 1990, Hardware. Feels like a companion piece to The Terminator and got sued for ripping off a 2000AD story. More in the ALT #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

In a post apocalyptic future a scavenger returns to his lover with assorted odds and sods for her to use in her sculptures. So, minus 1 point for the apocalypse, but add 1 point for the fact budding artists can survive on a pittance and aren't forced to drive an Uber.
The aforementioned odds and sods included bits of a killer robot that once incorporated into the sculpture, gets all slicey and dicey.
Directed by Richard Stanley, Hardware is a grim, dirty movie which had a troubled production - but Richard Stanley and troubled productions are synonymous with each other - and accusations of plagerism (another parrallel with The Terminator) and technical issues, it's a wonder it got released.
Hardware is one of those films that's a true cult film - seen by very few and recognised for its way after the event.
If you do want to watch then you will either have to fork out for the now Oop blu ray or search the various streaming sights, kosher and otherwise.

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Released on this day, 4 October 2008, Tokyo Gore Police. If TGP has one thing going for it, it's the practical FX. I've no idea what's going on and it's bat shit crazy. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Released on this day, 3 October 1980, Terror Train. Apparently it was law to cast Jamie Lee Curtis in your horror film in the period 1977 - 1982, and in doing so cemented her as the #1 Scream Queen. More in the alt....are you reading the alt? #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

Terror Train is mainly remembered for 3 things, JLC, the killer's schtick for wearing different costumes and a early appearance of soon to be magic superstar David Copperfield.

It's bang average, though has developed a cult following - not sure why tbh.
Initial production cost of around $2.7m CAD should have meant that this stood a good chance to make it's money back. In the US 20th Century Fox purchased distribution rights and spent $5m US on marketing, ultimately it made $8m in the domestic US market.

This is the last of JLC's first 4 horror movies to be remade after Halloween, The Fog and Prom Night. None of which were well received.

Interestingly it had one remake mutate into a completely original project (Train - 2008 with Thora Birch) which can be best described as Saw on a train.
It then had another remake that stuck very closely to the original in 2022, which itself got a sequel later the same year with both premiering on Tubi. Neither were well received.

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Released on this day 2 October 1987, Near Dark. Katherine Bigelow + Tangerine Dream + Vampires = Near Dark. Was time when Near Dark was top 3 of vampire movies but it seems rarely mentioned these days. Its remake was cancelled because of Twilight! #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror More in the alt

The Lost Boys is THE vampire flick of the 80s and I understand why - good looking cast, killer sound track, endlessly quotable, scary + funny.
But it shouldn't be.
Near Dark is.
It should have been the film that catapulted director/writer Bigelow and actors Bill Paxton + Adrian Pasdar into the A list. But it didn't. Nothing.
Bigelow would find gold with Point Break. Paxton was a reliable supporting actor and Pasdar found his niche in tv. But despite good reviews it just couldn't build momentum at the cinema, only hitting it's stride on VHS, but even then it didn't explode like 1982's The Thing.
But if you saw it, if you knew someone who had watched it - it was all you spoke about. Near Dark, how good it looked, Bill Paxton's performance and nerdy bedrooms filled with the music of Tangerine Dream.
And then everybody seems to have forgotten about it.
The last disc put out was a mediocre effort in 2009 and rumors of a remaster have been abound since 2001. But still nuffink.
So, if you've seen it perhaps it's time to revisit it, if not then this Halloween it may be time to dive in.
It can be found on YouTube, it's not going to look amazing but at least you can experience it.
I do find it being cancelled because of Twilight ironic, one a sparkly romance the other a blood soaked western, but the same old accountants in Hollywood putting a stake in its heart.

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Released on this day 29 September 1995, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers NGL, but I do find the Halloween sequels a bit mid (not Season of the Witch though, that's awesome). They never really seem to progress, at least F13 sequels have inventive gags. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Released on this day, 28th September 1955, The Quatermass Xperiment. If you're are British and of a certain age QX is legend. Whether you it was the late night showings decades after release or you saw the original show, it was ground breaking. More in the ALT #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

The Original Quatermass Xperiment was first conceived as tv show of 6 episode by Nigel Neale for the BBC in 1953. it was unlike anything that British studios had ever seen and created such an event that pubs emptied early so people could rush home to watch it. It was cheap, the end alien was a sock with stuff sewn to it, but it was expertly shot so none of the cheapness can be seen. It would go on to spawn 3 tv sequels, including the shit pantingly creepy Quatermass and the Pit.

After the success of the tv show, a pre-Dracula and Frankenstein Hammer bought the rights and struck gold at the box office., releasing an edited version in the US as The Creeping Terro.
Controversially the stoic Dr Quatermass was replaced by a brash American, which wouldn't have been an issue but he's given a complete personality change. Thankfully the script and direction both by Val Guest hold everything together.
Where US sci-fi seemed to be heading down the route of giant creatures and invaders from Mars in silly costumes, here the danger comes returning British astronauts and has been borrowed many times, but Richard Wordsworth's portrayal of doomed astronaut Carron is the stand out.
You won't be able to watch the original tv show, only 2 episodes exist, but this and the subsequent sequels are excellent examples of 50's sci-fi paranoia.
The tv show of Quatermass and the Pit does exist and should be watched at your earliest convenience, it's of its time and a slow burn, but that slow burn is what makes it so creepy.

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Released on this day, 27 September 1972, Dracula AD 1972. Cushing & Lee together in a Dracula movie for the first time since 1960s Brides of Dracula. It's not my favourite, and feels it was out of date by its release. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Released on this day, 26 September 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Is there anything that can be said that hasn't been said before about this classic? Not seen it? Watch it.

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Released on this day, September 25th 1974, The Mutations. Part Frankenstein, part Freaks this British horror has a quaint charm that makes up for what it lacks in thrills. A pre-Doctor Who Tom Baker steals nubile young ladies for the dastardly Donal Pleasance. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Released on this day, 24 September 1993, The Good Son. Macaulay Culkin turn killer kid in this average pot boiler and disliked by the critics. Banned in the UK due to a high profile murder case until '95. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Released on this day, 23 September 2008, Eden Lake. One of the things that the UK excels at is hoodies horrors, working class kids replacing the terror of the likes of Jason & Freddy. It's a downbeat flick, good, but oof. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Released on this day, 22 September 1996, Jack Frost. I love this stupid movie, and its sequel. A serial killers soul winds up as a murderous snowman taking revenge on the cop who caught him. Big dumb fun on a pennies budget. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Released on this day, 21 September 1984. The Company of Wolves. This gothic fantasy put Neil Jordan on the scene with his dreamlike sequences. Rarely spoken of these days, but it's one of the films that if you've not scene, should. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Released on this day, 20 September 1940, The Mummy's Hand. Not sequel, not a remake, not even sure it's set in the same universe, but I kinda liked this as a kid. Karloff's mummy was a bit slow and plodding for me. More in the ALT #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

Cobbled together using footage from Karloff's Mummy, sets from Green Hell and the soundtrack from Son of Frankenstein it still managed to go over budget. Considering that after this we still have another 3 Mummy movies to come, 4 if you include when Abbot & Costello, it must have turned a profit on its $84k ($2m 2025) budget.
Production was spurred on by the success of both Son of Frankenstein and The Invisible Man Returns.
The Mummy films don't hold the same cadre as the Frankenstein & Dracula sequels which I think is partly due to decreasing budgets hampering fx & scripts. And there are similarities with the Monster of Frankenstein, but the creature just isn't as striking.

Even quality wise, for me, they sit at the bottom, Invisible Man sequels are fun, even stupid, Wolfman have the drama and the Gill-Man movies are under valued.

What do you think bumface?

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Released on this day, 19 September 2002, Buba Ho-Tep. Bruce Campbell is Elvis, Ossie Davis is JFK. Or perhaps they're not. This received a limited release but became an instant cult classic once it hit home media. There's been a mooted sequel mentioned for years. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Released on this day, 18th September 1963, The Haunting. There are some films that you need to be a certain age, not to watch, but to understand and The Haunting is one such. If you've never seen it, watch it. Put your phone away. Pay attention. More in the ALT #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

Based on Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House, the film is fairly faithful to the message of the book. Though here sound drives the message as opposed to colour.

I first saw this when I was around 9 or 10. The BBC ran double bills of old horror movies and so each week was monsters and heaving bosoms. Neither of which featured here - so naturally I didn't like it.
But here's the thing when you only have 3 tv channels, and 2 of those have boring dry adult content and if you want to watch Taste the Blood of Dracula then you have to sit through the film that proceeds it. And it always seemed to be The Haunting.
I must have been 13 or 14 when this finally made sense to me, it just switch on, a lightbulb moment. The horror of the house and how it wormed its way into our heroine Elanor. That night I was terrified.
Horror movies are not generally scary, they're entertaining blood soaked thrillers with innovative kills, snappy one liners and boobs. But that night this changed for me and if this was released today reviewers from publications that generally sneer at the genre would hail as a sea change - like they did with The VVitch or Hereditary. But here it was in 1963, loved by critics but barely seen by anyone, just about making it's $1m budget back. It had a crappy remake and the book was the source for a Netflix series that completely ignored its source material, but here is the first horror film that had me jumping at every creak in my house as I lay in bed afterwards.
Just as the house invaded Elanor, so had the film invaded my personal space.
It little spoken of these days, no super duper 4k boxset release, no revivals. But if you can turn the lights off, put the phone away and got a decent sound system, then watch The Haunting, and if you don't like it the first time. Watch it again. Because eventually it will get its hooks into you and perhaps you'll be the better for it.

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Released on this day, 17 September 1940, Before I Hang. Shades of The Hands of Orlac with this Karloff number as a scientist compelled to murder after being injected with the blood of a murderer. Only 62 mins, worth a watch, but by no means a classic. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Released on this day, 16 September 1987, Street Trash. Cunt horror comedy by Jim Muro that follows a group of homeless people who melt (with great practical FX) after drinking a tainted batch of hooch. Got a spiritual sequel in 2024. More in the ALT #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

Street Trash is one of those 80s films that is slyly political. Unlike, say, They Live where consumerism is on trial, Street Trash is vulgar, nasty and funny with its message of disenfranchisement.
Our hero lives in the dump, controlled by an Vietnam veteran and all are surrounded by street trash, both human and otherwise. Ignored by the system until they they intersect with it.
It has some great gross out moments that are to be enjoyed if that's your thing.
Its 2024 sequel is more overt in its political messages. It's the actual government that is poisoning the homeless and after a US TV pundit this week suggested that mentally ill homeless should receive a lethal injection - it's eerily on the nose.

After viewing both the 15 yr old preferred the original, and I agree. But there is still much to enjoy and it's worth keeping an eye on it's director Ryan Kruger.

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Rip Robert Redford. I was just thinking of him the other day and how his movies were part of my childhood. He was the very definition of a star.

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Released on this day, 15 September 1965, Planet of the Vampires. Widely recognised as the blueprint for 1979's Alien this was directed by Mario Bava from a short story by Renato Pestriniero. The costumes and sets are the stand out though. More inthe ALT #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

Released as a co-production between Italian International Film and American International Pictures (AIP), and financing provided by Spain's Castilla Cooperativa Cinematográfica. AIP released Planet of the Vampires as the supporting film on a double feature with Daniel Haller's Die, Monster, Die! (1965)

Props go to Gabriele Mayer for the costumes and what he pulled together on what was a reportedly very tight budget. I can't help think that if this was a sole US production the designs would have been detriment, but here everyone at least looks cool, if not down right sexy.

It's a movie that requires a couple of viewings to appreciate the "whole". It's not a demanding movie but once you've experience the story, experience the experience. Take foe example the aforementioned costumes, Meyer stated that he looked to mimic insects, the preying mantis in particular with the seams of the costume breaking up the body, but from certain angles they feel that they wouldn't be out of place on a stormtrooper, which if we follow this thought - what is their world like and is that where the real horror lies?

Radiance in the UK released a nice special edition that went out of print in about 5 mins and included a nice book

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Released on this day, 14 September 1990, Grimm Prairie Tales. Wild west horror portmanteau which I feel hardly anyone has seen and doesn't appear to have had a physical released since it's VHS days Chucky & Darth Vader face off over 4 tales of terror. More in the alt. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

Grim Prairie Tales is a 1990 American independent horror Western film, written and directed by Wayne Coe, and starring an ensemble cast including James Earl Jones, Brad Dourif, Will Hare, Marc McClure, William Atherton, and Lisa Eichhorn.

An anthology film composed of four separate stories, it is told by two travellers around a prairie campfire. Morrison (Jones) is a grizzled bounty hunter carrying a body, while Farley Deeds (Dourif) is a clerk on the way to a romantic reunion with his wife.

I saw it on VHS on release in the UK and it gained a cult following after being shown on the cult movie show Moviedrome with Alex Cox (dir. Repo Man).

While it's not up their with the classic portmanteau films, it's well worth seeking out and hopefully one day someone will see fit yo get it a physical release.

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Released on this day, 13 September 2009. The Loved Ones. What Lola wants, Lola gets. And Lola wants a date. A great little horror flick from Sean Byrne. Who though only having made 3 films, all are really very good. Would love to see this get a 4k release. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

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monkeymanbob.bsky.social @monkeymanbob.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Released on this day, 12 September 1980, Prom Night. Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielson B4 he became a comedy legend star in this very dull slasher. Got an excellent sequel that wasn't really a sequel. The remake is celluloid cancer. #horrorfilms #365daysofhorror

Prom Night 1980. A Canadian slasher released during the boom when it seems that any old shit could turn a profit.
Prom Night is an odd one. Mediocre but turned enough profit that when someone made a Nightmare on Elm Street rip off set in a high school they renamed it Prom Night 2, which great fun. Seriously, watch it.
The remake is celluloid cancer. There are bad films and then there is this cynical piece of shit. Made to cash in on the original, I assume the IP was going in cheap as part of a package and some goyt felt there was enough love for the original that there would be a built in audience. There was, but no one who watched it liked it.
Spend 88 mins hoping every person on that screen dies. Quickly.
The writers, producers & director should never be allowed near a cinema ever again.
People say, "worse movie ever" just because they don't like something. At least Bigfoot Vs Zombies was made by people who enjoy films, they may not be very competent at it, but they like films.
Whoever made Prom Night 2008 hates cinema.

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