Set just before Thanksgiving [I never seem to remember this when re-watching it in August or September damn near annually], Madman has the perfect amount of autumnal atmosphere for all your seasonal slasher needs! The last time I watched it I was taken aback by Steve Horelick's [I love typing his surname] score and resumé but while watching Madman at 6:30am this morning I was struck by perfectly framed shots @ night providing effective fall foliage ambiance for decapitations and…

[:: the 13 week esoteric/hidden knowledge & 8th-dimensional killuminati broadcasts challenge/ley lines/skeleton key/scavenger hunt ::

week 7: july 13-july19

eyes wide shut was released july 16, 1999. watch a movie from 1999 & think how it continues to inform esoteric ideas & philosophies 1999: the gnostic multiplex & the formulation of 21st century conspiracy culture]

I am a little behind on pd187's scavenger hunt but better late than never?! I haven't been watching tons of movies [and I have a full-time job now!] but…

Let's get this out of the way, The Witch is a horror film, you can put it in all of your other subcategories but, at its very core--it's a genre film whether you feel comfortable with the classification or not.

This film covers the horrors of colonialism, emigration, religious conviction, starvation, witch trials, patriarchy, puberty, loss, and if methodically exposing each of these very horrifying real life tribulations isn't terrifying and alarming enough, there's a god damn witch and evil…

After having over a meter (3 feet for my fellow Americans) of snow fall on us in just a few days, the isolated and trapped feeling gave us great cause to want to watch the ultimate cabin fever-in the depth of winter film. Regardless of how many times one has seen The Shining, it never loses that overwhelming sense of dread.

As soon as Jack Torrance is in frame, that uneasy feeling takes over. I feel as though I wish…