Negative Space: horror
- Algernon Blackwood’s The Empty House
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Algernon Blackwood’s The Empty House is almost certainly a precursor and inspiration to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House.
- Alien
- A classic space horror film directed by Ridley Scott and featuring a lot of design by H. R. Giger. The original tagline was “In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream”. Giger’s alien did a pretty good job of making sure that in the movie theater, everyone could.
- Call of Cthulhu
- Gaming stuff for Call of Cthulhu.
- Carnival of Souls
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There are places in this world where the other world intrudes: old carnivals; deserted highways; busy bus stations… This seminal horror movie contains no blood, no knives, and for the most part, no budget, but it was well-written, beautifully shot, and carefully directed and acted. Inspiration from this movie can be seen in later films from “Night of the Living Dead” to “Beetlejuice”.
- Dead By Dawn
- Ash is unable to escape after his first night, and ends up spending another night in the cabin in the woods... along with a strange archaeologist’s daughter. Sam Raimi makes another funny gorefest.
- The Evil Dead
- A true “cult classic” that involves beginning actors, a student director, and even a student producer. Director Sam Raimi later went on to do a few more Evil Deads as well as a number of other movies such as “A Simple Plan”.
- Halloween
- The first really good screamer flick I saw. Jamie Lee Curtis kicks butt! I’ve got this one on order. Note that the unlimited edition is less expensive, and doesn’t include the television presentation and its extra footage. It does contain most of the other extras, if not all of them.
- Harlequinade
- “The Ideal World is a paranoid place where the everyday is not as it appears… or is it? Superficially, the Ideal World is our own. The technology is familiar technology. The streets are the familiar streets. The inhabitants are, mostly, the faceless people we ignore every day. Lurking within this familiar facade is the joke. All you have to do is scratch the surface. Face it, nobody lives for ever. So enjoy yourself.”
- Hell House
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Hell House, the book, is much more interesting then The Legend of Hell House, the movie.
- Horror gaming texts
- Free horror games, and some World of Darkness and Call of Cthulhu stuff.
- Horror Houses
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What to do when your house hates you? These movies will help you relate.
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series)
- Whistling his way into the office, alone, late at night, he tosses his straw hat so nonchalantly it goes into the wastebasket, starts typing a story—a scoop! A conspiracy so dark, no one can tell it but him, the intrepid, insightful big-city journalist.
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- One of the best horror movies of my generation, up there with “Halloween” in influence, if not in execution, and seemingly heavily influenced by it.
- Proof that I lived in Hollywood in the eighties
- My half-second star turn in an eighties horror movie that looks like it’s from the seventies, The Sleeping Car.
- Scream
- Wow! I just saw all three “Scream” movies back to back. I watched Scream on DVD in the morning, Scream 2 on DVD in the afternoon, and Scream 3 at the movies. They hang together pretty well. This first of the Screams is designed as a montage-like homage to horror movies of the past in an attempt to both go beyond them and go back to basics. If you’re a horror movie fan, especially movies like “Halloween” and “Nightmare on Elm Street”, you’ll probably like this movie.
More Information
- Carnival of Souls•
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This is an awesome DVD package. It goes in-depth not only into Herk Harvey’s influential Carnival of Souls, but also the other kinds of movies he and his colleagues did. There is a great old construction safety short on here, for example.
