Tag: Screenplay
Explosive Cruelty in THE HILLS HAVE EYES (1977)
“The first monster that must frighten you is the filmmaker himself”
—Wes Craven
In the earliest days of my horror movie explorations, there were a handful...
Don’t Disrespect Halloween Tradition in TRICK ‘R TREAT (2007)
By the time I finally sat down and watched Trick ‘r Treat (2007), I had been living in hyped anticipation for it for close to two years....
HALLOWEEN 3 (1982) and the Appeal of the Standalone Sequel
The first time my young, horror adverse mind even considered the Halloween franchise was over a decade before I would ever see even a...
An Eye for Detail in THE TERMINATOR (1984)
I suppose I knew Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) was a sequel, but for all intents and purposes in my eight-year-old mind, that was definitively...
Reasoning with the Unreasonable in No Country for Old Men
Horror, deep in its dark heart, is about forcing characters to confront the unimaginable: the killer with a knife, the book that raises the...
The Neon Demon: Where Visuals are More Important than Script
Welcome back to Everything but Bone! This week we are going to be examining one of the most polarizing horror films of 2016, Nicolas Winding...
Tina’s Death in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
ANALOG NIGHTMARES
The first time I watched Wes Craven’s seminal masterpiece, I was huddled around a 22’’ tube TV sitting on the shaggy carpeted floor...