Views from the Sofa’s 100 Greatest Scenes is a list of the 100 greatest moments in the movies. This could be long introductions, moments of action or great dialogue between characters. The scenes are in no particular order and come from … Continue reading 100 Greatest Scenes Number 16: Crows in the Playground
At a time in horror when “cattle-prod” scares seem to be the go-to device for scares, The Birds is a lesson in how to truly scare an audience. It doesn’t have any scares which make you jump at all but instead … Continue reading The Birds (1963) Review
I review a whole season rather than individual episodes, so there is a chance of spoilers. If you haven’t watched the whole season yet, stop reading now! While watching the first season of Supernatural you have to wonder whether in today’s busy … Continue reading Supernatural (Season 1) TV Review
Age has not been kind to The Wicker Man. What may have been disturbing, shocking and creepy back in the seventies just seems to be strange today. It is difficult to get behind a movie where “the outsider” is just met … Continue reading The Wicker Man (1973) Review
It is difficult to review a movie like 10 Cloverfield Lane because the film should be seen with no prior knowledge. It is a movie that any description will either spoil for you or give you the complete incorrect impression of … Continue reading 10 Clovefield Lane (2016) Review
Cloverfield is exactly what the Found Footage genre was designed for. It puts the audience directly in the action, taking the point of view of one of the characters and presenting the full blown horror of the situation. It is primarily … Continue reading Cloverfield (2008) Review
It is Hollywood gold and at awards season it becomes the fashion to make true stories into movies. A movie not part of awards season but based on elements that are true made me question the suitability of some film’s source … Continue reading When is it inappropriate to make a “true story” movie?
While watching The Forest, I was subjected to two more horror movie trailers (The Other Side of the Door and The Boy) and what soon became apparent is how similar the trailers are for the horror movies. It is like there … Continue reading How to make a Horror movie trailer
It is ironic that a movie about becoming lost in a forest lacks so much depth. If you can look past the questionable taste of setting a horror movie in a forest in which over one hundred people commit suicide every … Continue reading The Forest (2016) Review
After my review of The Thing, a horror movie classic for many people, Michael over at Parlour of Horror took um-bridge with my claim that it wasn’t scary. It had it’s moments but at no point did I really feel “horrified” or … Continue reading When do horror movies stop being scary?
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