His and Her Reviews: Halloween

His: In the sixth grade I spent the night at a friend’s house. Growing up I had been into Science Fiction, especially Star Wars upon discovering it, and had been pretty sheltered from anything that could be considered ‘scary’ by my mother. While at this friend’s house he had Halloween and Halloween II on Laserdisc […]

The Twilight Zone Movie

His: The Twilight Zone: The Movie is an anthology film released in 1983 and based upon the anthology series The Twilight Zone that ran from 1959-1964. Because the film is an anthology it is necessary to tackle each portion individually, and then discuss The Twilight Zone: The Movie as the sum of its parts rather […]

The Thing (1982)

His: The Thing is a John Carpenter science fiction/horror masterpiece starring Kurt Russell and some of the best practical effects the 1980s had to offer. It’s one of the origins of the 1980s’ over the top horror films that would go on to influence cult hits like Slither. If you have not yet seen this […]

His and Her Reviews: The Conjuring

His: Ghosts. Spirits. Apparitions. Demons. These are all things you can expect from James Wan’s 2013 film The Conjuring, a film that has nothing to do with the Conjuration School of Magic from 2011’s Game of the Year Skyrim (sorry, gamers). The Conjuring is directed by James Wan and stars Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron […]

His and Her Reviews: Exploring the Mummies

His: The Mummy is one of the classic Universal Horror monsters, and the only one that did not have preexisting source material for writers to draw from in crafting the original film back in 1932. This particular film was an opportunity for Boris Karloff to inhabit another character for Universal, although this time he was […]