Written in Blood: Bringing Down a Chopper in The Hitcher (1986)
Horror is a genre of fear, in all of its forms. Fear of the unknown, fear of the self, fear of the other— the manifestations are endless. Still, each iteration offers a relatable thread,...
Toku Tuesday: Project Nemesis, the Series
In the past we discussed the comic adaptation of Jeremy Robinson's novel Project Nemesis, this week we're discussing the series as a whole. Lasting five books with one prequel novel Project Nemesis is a...
Written in Blood: The Scoleri Brothers of Ghostbusters II (1989)
For years I thought my earliest theatrical experience belonged to Duck Tales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990). Even in my hazy, 6-year-old memory, I recall the dark theater, the huge screen...
The Terror-ibleness of Tentacles (1977)
Tentacles (1977) is truly terrible. The kind of terrible that only comes from attempting to shamelessly ripoff another more popular movie. The movie in question here is clearly trying to ripoff Jaws (1975). Now the...
Written in Blood: Introducing the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow (1999)
As were most teenagers in the late 90s, I was a Tim Burton fan. It was hard not to be given his striking aesthetic and proclivity for telling dark fairy tales in a way...
Losing an Idle Hand(s) (1999)
When it comes to the movies, comedy was my first love.
Sure, horror has my heart these days, but I can’t deny that for a huge portion of my young life I was a slapstick...
Deep Red (1975), a Bloody Good Mystery
Here in Everything But Bone, we’re heading back to the horror subgenre giallo, or Italian horror-thriller-slashers. It’s been awhile, last time I wrote about one was Zombie 2 last summer. I believe a return...
Digging a Hole in Shaun of the Dead (2004)
In the summer of 2004, I spent my Friday nights shilling concessions to people trying to catch the latest blockbuster releases. As they are today, back then most of the screens in my particular...
Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century, A Canadian-Italian Kaiju Fever Dream
A few months ago we discussed Kaiju and giant monsters that have attacked Canada. In my research for the article, I missed the biggest instance of Canadian monster rampage. Yeti: Giant of the 20th...
Gacy (2003): The American Jekyll and Hyde
In 1993 on death row in Chester, Illinois, John Wayne Gacy said: “If you serve other people, it will come back to serve you.” A chilling quote from a man who used his trusted...
Going for a Drive: Scream 2 (1997)
The soft glow of multi-colored florescent lights was the only thing polluting the darkness. The shadows from the limbs of the faux-evergreen which they adorned creeped into the entryway of the room housing our...
Exploring Eugene Lourie’s The Giant Behemoth (1959)
The Giant Behemoth (1959) is the third giant monster flick by filmmaker Eugene Lourie. Lourie is much more well known for The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) which inspired the original Godzilla (1954) and...
A Lullaby for Mrs. Voorhees: Friday the 13th (1980)
Long before I had ever seen a horror movie in full, I was well aware that a man wearing a hockey mask and brandishing a sharp weapon was bad news.
I can’t quite pinpoint it,...
Blue Caprice (2013) and the Child Soldiers of America
Societal shock gripped the Washington, D.C. area in October of 2002. Over the course of twenty days, ten people were shot and killed by a seemingly invisible sniper who emerged to murder randomly. It...
Reading Project Nemesis: the Comic
Project Nemesis began life as a novel by Jeremy Robinson written in 2012 and it has become one of the most popular entries in Kaiju fiction. There are a total of six books in...
The Start of a Plague: Zombieland (2009)
As a burgeoning horror fan in the mid-2000s, it became rather apparent fairly quickly that not everyone in the world was as into the genre as I was.
Sure, these days horror seems to be...
Reevaluating Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters
In the realm of Kaiju fandom, there is a lot of stigma and critical assumptions you have to combat. People write off the films because they have appeared on various Riff shows like Mystery...
Eddie’s Transformation in Howling (1981)
Everything transforms eventually, in one way or another. But, let me back up…
While 1981 saw the release of three rather large in scope werewolf films, An American Werewolf in London, The Howling and Wolfen,...
Teeth (2007) is a Morality Tale Wrapped in a B-Movie
Content Warning for discussion of sexual assault.
This time in Everything But Bone we will be talking about an actual bone, teeth! Not the ones in your mouth, but the vagina dentata. Yes, our film...
American Tokusatsu: A Look At Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: The Movie
The year is 1995 and one Tokusatsu show rules North America. The Power Rangers. Rangermania didn't last long (it was eventually usurped but for a few years), but the show was so incredibly popular...
Pretending to be Alive: The Zombies of Land of the Dead (2005)
My imagination was running wild.
The menacing heads of encroaching zombies stretched as far as the yellow and black horizon, under the shadow of a dimly lit cityscape. Floating above it all in large red...
Cults, American Xenophobia and Outsiders in Borderland (2007)
America’s never had a rosy image of Mexico, seeing it either from a flawed economic perspective— assuming everyone south of the border is poor— or from a social perspective tainted by nationalist rhetoric and...
Canada’s Kaiju: An Exploration of the Great White North’s History of Giant Monsters
Canada is the second largest country in the world, as such if giant creatures were to exist you'd expect for at least a few of them to show up in Canada. As Canada Day...
Can I Bug You For a Ride? The Subway Car in Mimic (1997)
Growing up, my house tended to be the spot where most of my friends hung out. We had video games, a pantry stacked with snacks, parents that didn’t interfere… you know, the usual. but...
Make it so! Star Trek: First Contact (1996) is a Horror Movie
Hello again! Welcome to the latest edition of Everything But Bone. This article is a little different from my previous ones, because we are finding horror in one of the biggest science fiction franchises...