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Hooptober 11.0 – The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave (1971)

Being Film #2 for Hooptober 2024

Last May I went on a big giallo kick, and out the vast number of new films discovered one of my favorites was The Red Queen Kills Seven Times, a great title for a gothic tale that had all sorts of twists and turns and some truly gorgeous cinematography. So when I checked out and saw that director Emilio P. Miraglia had done another giallo the year before, I jumped at the chance to check it out. And…it’s fine? The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave does a lot of similar things, a few that were even surprising, but still stands a step below Miraglia’s other, greater horrific work.

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Hail Horror! It Returns for 2024!

Time keeps on ticking, doesn’t it? It feels like only yesterday I was exhausted, dehydrated, and mentally comatose after wrapping up the 10th annual Hooptober Horror Movie Marathon, and here we are, just a week away from Year 11. My streak remains unbroken, having participated in all ten previous marathons, and this time is no different, as I once again inundate your inboxes with horror … Continue reading Hail Horror! It Returns for 2024!

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Hooptober X #9: The Exorcist: Believer

David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy will probably continue to divide fans of that franchise for years to come. It’s three films that took at big swing. For all their faults though, those three films at least attempted something. They’re three slasher films that at least felt like pure slasher films. No overt meta humor gets used or commentary on the genre as a whole. The … Continue reading Hooptober X #9: The Exorcist: Believer

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Hooptober X #8: It Lives Inside

It Lives Inside is the debut feature film of Bishal Dutta. This might be the first wide release Indian-American horror film. Instead of relying on the Christian and European based horror tropes, the movie introduces audiences to the mythology and mysticism of Hinduism. It’s an impressive and confident debut for a first time filmmaker. It has its flaws but those are outweighed enough by Dutta’s … Continue reading Hooptober X #8: It Lives Inside

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Hooptober X #7; No One Will Save You

No One Will Save You is an intriguing premise. A young woman isolated from society witnesses an alien invasion. She then has to fight off the invasion when the aliens possess everyone in town. Only writer/director Brian Duffield tells this story almost entirely with its visuals and little to no dialogue. It’s a bold stylistic choice. Unfortunately, by the end of the film it’s not … Continue reading Hooptober X #7; No One Will Save You

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Hooptober 10.0 – Strip Nude For Your Killer (1975)

Being Film #31 for Hooptober 2023

And so we come to end of the 10th annual Hooptober Marathon. And it had to end with a giallo, the mixed up genre I’ve been feverishly catching up on this year. The second I saw the title Strip Nude For Your Killer I knew I needed to see it: with a salacious title like that how could you not? By 1975 the genre was waning, and directors started blending in other genres (see Sergio Martino’s The Suspicious Death of a Minor, reviewed here) like police procedurals to give their films boost. Others, like Andrea Bianchi went the software porn route, and sadly, despite a great Edwin Fenech performance, it does this film no favors.

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