LITERAL REMAINS

Werner Herzog’s 1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre is a remake of F. W. Murnau’s original silent masterpiece.  Remake.  Homage.  Classic.  It shares a lot with the original, Herzog even recreated some of Murnau’s shots.  But it’s Klaus Kinski who seems to be Max Schreck reincarnated as the Count.
Estate Agent Jonathan Harker travels to close a property [...]

It’s been quite rainy here in Middle Tennessee.  It seems to have quit, for now, this afternoon.  So, I thought it would be a good day to suggest The Mist.
The Mist has a certain power to divide people.  Most everyone I know who has seen it either loves it or hates it.  I love it.  [...]

Call me wrong, twisted, demented, disturbed, whatever you want, but as a  friend (who shall remain nameless here, but she knows who she is) once commented, I seem to have a fascination with Leatherface.  Of course she threw in the word “unhealthy”, but that is splitting hairs.  At least I think it is.
A lot of people, [...]

“This is the road to Potter’s Bluff.  There is no road out…”
The cozy little town of Potter’s Bluff is having to endure a series of gruesome murders.  The sheriff, Dan Gillis, is at a dead end as to the “why” and “who”.  Assisting him is the town’s coroner and mortician, Dobbs.  Both men try to unravel the [...]

The Other is another of those films that I stumbled upon while channel surfing.  It’s one more of those films that if I land on a channel and it’s playing, I have to stop and watch it.  A great movie does that to a person.
Set in the countryside of 1935 Connecticut, the story centers on [...]

How about we make it a Johnny Depp weekend?
I can still remember the first time I saw Sleepy Hollow.  Sitting in the movie theater, glued to the screen.  I had drug my girlfriend at the time to the theater; she was sick with bronchitis or pneumonia or something, so she really didn’t want to be [...]

I’ve had a fascination with Jack the Ripper just about ever since I was in knee pants.  I’ve read the official stories of the killings, fiction stories, seen movie after movie.  I have yet to read Alan Moore’s original graphic novel, as strange as that sounds, but the film adaption of From Hell is one of [...]

The Lusman Arms is a run down apartment building rich in history.  Once decadent and luxurious, it’s a bit sleazy now.  But for Nell and Steven, a young married couple just starting their life together, it’s a stepping stone to better things.  She is a teacher, he is a medical student starting his internship.  It’s [...]

Oh, you thought I forgot?  Well, not today.
The Orphanage is one of the best ghost stories committed to film, or probably ever told for that matter.  It’s neck and neck with The Innocents.
Laura was an orphan, as an adult, she and her husband, Carlos, buy the old seaside house that was her orphanage and turn [...]

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It’s been some time since I last watched The Company of Wolves, and I may take my own recommendation and watch it again.  I remember the first time I saw it, way back all those years ago when I was a wee child, I just simply didn’t get it.  [...]

…yeah, I had to shave and everything-  Oh, hi there, didn’t see you.  I was just talking to….You know what, never mind, never mind, it’s not important.
So, it is the sixth day of October, and up today for your consideration is May.
May Dove Kennedy is an awkward girl, and that is an understatement.  Shy.  A [...]

About two or three years ago I was up late and skimming through the channels.  I stopped on Showtime and watched the last few minutes of some action shoot’em up and then this little movie followed that was perfect for a late night excursion into the unknown:  Fear of the Dark.  I know what you’re thinking:  [...]

For today, there is Venom.
Don’t groan.  I think this is an overlooked little gem of a movie.  Sadly, it was released in the Fall of 2005, just after Katrina hit, and since this movie is set in the Louisiana bayou, it came and went pretty fast.  So exists a fairly large consensus that know little to nothing [...]

The countdown to the 31st continues!  Or would it be a count up?  Whichever (you all know we’re not professionals here), it is the third day of October and I’m here to drop my day’s recommendation on you.  If you don’t know what I’m doing, where ya been?  Read this to catch up.  (And come on, it’s day [...]

Today I have to recommend one of the best movies ever, The Innocents.
A governess, Miss Giddens, is hired by a socialite to care for his orphaned niece and nephew at Bly House, his country mansion.  They will be her sole responsibility while he will continue to reside in the city.  When Miss Giddens arrives, she finds [...]