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From an outside perspective the Rocky franchise is a laugh and a joke mostly made through the generations of parodies and people who've only seen said parodies. Those who give it a chance can be pleasantly surprised to find a golden piece of cinema t...

Freddy's 31 Days of Horror Halloween Day: George A Romero presents Tom Savini's Night of the Living Dead Happy Halloween! The first year I ever did this list I had to end it with one of the greatest horror films in American Cinema, Night of the Livin...

Freddy's 31 Days of Horror Hallow's Eve: Jemaine Clement's and Taika Waititi's What We Do in the Shadows You know those guys from Flight of the Choncords? They got together and decided to make a mockumentary about a bunch of vampires living together ...

Freddy's 31 Days of Horror Day 29: Joe Dante's Burying the Ex Joe Dante is hands down one of my favorite genre directors of all time. Coming from the schlock camp of Corman with his first feature the original, Piranha. He continued on with many of hi...

Freddy's 31 Days of Horror Day 28: Dan O'Bannon's Return of the Living Dead Dan O'Bannon's career is pretty crazy awesome with whom he's written for. His first gig was writing and starring in John Carpenter's first flick, Dark Star. Then most famousl...

Freddy's 31 Days of Horror Day 27: Tod Browning's Freaks Tod Browning is most famously known for Universal Studios classic Dracula, the original Bela Lagosi film that started it all. After it's success in 1931, Browning had a lot of clout to do any p...

Freddy's 31 Days of Horror Day 26: Adam Green's Digging Up The Marrow Adam Green is in my opinion one of the greatest contemporary horror filmmakers of this generation. He has the ability to dabble in all aspects of the genre and execute them amazing...

Freddy's 31 Days of Horror Day 25: Alex De La Iglesia's Witching and Bitching Alex De La Iglesia makes some crazy awesome movies and if you've seen The Last Circus you know what I'm talking about. Here he decides to tackle the subject of witches, but...

Freddy's 31 Days of Horror Day 24: Tobe Hooper's Djinn Tobe Hooper is most famously known for giving us Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist. He's had several movies such as Lifeforce that have achieved cult status but he has a definitive taste fo...

Freddy's 31 Days of Horror Day 23: Jennifer Kent's Babadook Well my fellow gore hounds for this smorgasbord of horror I'm going to try and keep this simple and not tell you the plot here as much as the feelings of this amazing film! In the realm of h...

Freddy's 31 Days of Horror Day 22: Wes Craven's My Soul To Take Here we have one of the last two films done by Wes Craven, but unlike his Scream 4, this flick was both written and directed by him and from what I recall he considered it a very persona...

Freddy's 31 Days of Horror Day 21: Fede Alvarez's Evil Dead The Evil Dead franchise is my favorite horror franchise of all time. As a young man getting into horror not much scared me until I watched Evil Dead for the first time. Even in the brightnes...

Freddy's 31 Days of Horror Day 20: Joel Schumacker's The Lost Boys I'm going to just say it right off the bat that I believe Joel Schumacker is probably one of the worst filmmakers of all time. He put nipples on Batman, enough said. That being said i...

Freddy's 31 Days of Horror Day 19: Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror The last time we had a joint Rodriguez/ Tarantino flick we got one of the most original and awesome vampire flicks ever, From Dusk Til Dawn! This time around we have the dynamic duo ...

Freddy's 31 Days of Horror Day 18: Alejandre Aja's Horns There's a great combination of talent here both behind and in front of the camera. The movie is based off of the book by Joe Hill, Stephen King's son, and directed by Alejandre Aja, the French ...

Freddy's 31 Days of Horror Day 17: Tommy Wirkola's Dead Snow 2: Red Vs Dead My very first list had the first Dead Snow on it as to me it was such a love letter to the insanity of Peter Jackson and Sam Raimi with self aware tones of fanboyishness, I c...

Freddy's 31 Days of Horror Day 16: Wes Craven's People Under the Stairs Craven's big three contributions to horror are of course, Last House on the Left in the seventies, Nightmare on Elm Street in the eighties and Scream in the early 2000's however ...

Freddy's 31 Days of Horror Day 15: George A Romero's Land of the Dead The father of the modern zombie and king of the socio/political horror is one of my personal favorite filmmakers of all time, George A Romero. He has done many different types of g...

Freddy's 31 Days of Horror Day 14: Ronny Yu's Bride of Chucky If you can't tell by now I really like it when there's a "Bride of" movie in a horror franchise and this one particularly takes the franchise off the rails into really weird territory. Chi...

Freddy's 31 Days of Horror Day 13: John Carpenter presents Body Bags My obligatory Carpenter flick this year is an extra special one! Back in the day with the rise of Horror Anthologies on television and cinemas Showtime partnered with John Carpenter...