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[Horror Bucket List] Harrowing [REC] Makes Found Footage Feel Fresh

May 16, 2020 by Joe Lipsett

In Horror Bucket List, I fill in gaps in my horror film knowledge based on recommendations from friends on Twitter. We then have a back and forth discussion about their history with the film.

Next up: I’m headed to Spain to check on an infested tenement with Bloody Mary Film Festival executive director Laura Di Girolamo and [REC].

Spoilers follow…

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Filed Under: Horror Bucket List Tagged With: Jaume Balagueró, Javier Botet, Manuela Velasco, Pablo Rosso, Paco Plaza, REC, Spanish horror

[Horror Bucket List] ‘The Cat o’ Nine Tails’ Is A Surprisingly Queer Positive Early Argento Film

April 22, 2020 by Joe Lipsett

A blind man sits with a young girl in his lap while a blonde man stands nearby

In Horror Bucket List, I fill in gaps in my horror film knowledge based on recommendations from friends on Twitter. We then have a back and forth discussion about their history with the film.

Next up: I’m headed to Italy for an investigation into a slate of murders with Dead For Filth podcast host and screenwriter Michael Varrati.

Spoilers follow…

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Filed Under: Horror Bucket List Tagged With: Catherine Spaak, Dario Argento, giallo, Horst Frank, James Franciscus, Karl Malden

[Horror Bucket List] ‘Next Of Kin’ (1982) Is A Gorgeous, Slow Burn Ozploitation Classic

April 11, 2020 by Joe Lipsett

Linda (Jacki Kerin) looks at herself in the mirror as she presses up against the bathroom door, bloodies and desperate

In Horror Bucket List, I fill in gaps in my horror film knowledge based on recommendations from friends on Twitter. We then have a back and forth discussion about their history with the film.

Next up: we’re traveling Down Under for the bizarre and gorgeous Next of Kin (1982) with Kill By Kill podcast’s Patrick Hamilton. 

Spoilers follow…

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Filed Under: Horror, Horror Bucket List Tagged With: Jacki Kerin, John Jarratt, kill by kill, Michael Heath, ozploitation, patrick hamilton, Tony Williams

[Horror Bucket List] ‘The Pact’ Offers Plenty of Hidden Surprises

April 7, 2020 by Joe Lipsett

Caity Lotz in short shorts and a tank top, peering in a window

In Horror Bucket List, I fill in gaps in my horror film knowledge based on recommendations from friends on Twitter. We then have a back and forth discussion about their history with the film.

Next up: checking out what’s inside the walls of The Pact (2012) with Kate from Stop! Horror Time! podcast.

Spoilers follow… [Read more…]

Filed Under: Horror, Horror Bucket List Tagged With: Caity Lotz, Dakota Bright, IFC Midnight, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Mark Steger, Nicholas McCarthy

[Horror Bucket List] ‘Thirst’ Is A Sexy & Subversive Korean Take on the Vampire Mythos

March 31, 2020 by Joe Lipsett

In Horror Bucket List, I fill in gaps in my horror film knowledge based on recommendations from friends on Twitter. We then have a back and forth discussion about their history with the film.

Next up: a jaunt to South Korea to check out Park Chan-Wook’s sexy vampire film, Thirst, with Jenny Nulf.

Spoilers follow…

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Filed Under: Horror, Horror Bucket List Tagged With: east asian cinema, jenny nulf, Kim Hae-sook, lady vengeance, Ok-bin Kim, oldboy, Park Chan-wook, Park In-hwan, Song Kang Ho

[Horror Bucket List] ‘The Night of the Hunter’ Is A Classic, Eerie Moral Odyssey

March 23, 2020 by Joe Lipsett

The corpse of a woman in a white dress tied to a car that is at the bottom of a lake

In Horror Bucket List, I fill in gaps in my horror film knowledge based on recommendations from friends on Twitter. We then have a back and forth discussion about their history with the film.

Next up: a jaunt back to 1955 to check out The Night of the Hunter with Talk Movie To Me’s Ms. Sinclair.

Spoilers follow… [Read more…]

Filed Under: Horror Bucket List Tagged With: Billy Chapin, Charles Laughton, criterion collection, Film Noir, Lillian Gish, robert mitchum, Sally Jane Bruce, Shelley Winters

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I am a freelance film and television journalist based in Toronto, Canada.

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> Bloody Disgusting
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> Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr

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