October 13th New School
Holidays (2016) is a collection of 8 short horror films told VHS style with different directors and I'll be frank I loved this one. Typically with anthologies you get one strong one and a couple weak ones but this one managed to get a bunch of different thematic horror styled films done right.
Holidays
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New School
Holidays (2016) is a collection of 8 short horror films told VHS style with different directors and I'll be frank I loved this one. Typically with anthologies you get one strong one and a couple weak ones but this one managed to get a bunch of different thematic horror styled films done right.
- Valentines Day - Is about a teen girl bullied by her classmates that manages to be visually creepy even when it devolves into silliness, this could have been a Creepshow installment.
- St. Patricks Day - Is the story of an irish teacher who becomes pregnant with...something. It's sort of a Wicker Man/Rosemary's Baby hybrid and it worked pretty well
- Easter - How do you make an Easter horror film, I won't spoil it but the monster is very good it's inspired by Guillermo Del Toro aspect to it and I sort of now wish Del Toro would make a series of shorts
- Mothers Day - Is the story of a fertile woman who gets pregnant every time she has sex. She then runs into a special group of women set out to "help" her. This was sort of a...maybe Stephen King short I think it's the weakest of the bunch because it needed to be a full film.
- Fathers Day - This was the star of the series for me, a young girl receives a tape recorder with her dead fathers instructions on how to find her. This was one of the best Lovecraftian stories I've seen in a long time and it takes a simple premise and execution and ramps up the suspense.
- Halloween - A cruel webcam home owner gets his comeuppance in this Kevin Smith story...that is very much a Kevin Smith story. This sort of succeeds where Tusk failed but it's a very similar plot but it felt a little short
- Christmas - A man (Seth Green) tries to get a toy for his son for Christmas bad things happen getting the toy and worse things happen afterwards. This was inspired by Black Mirror and this was likely the second best of the bunch. Seth is surprisingly strong in this as is his wife
- New Years - Reggie is a serial killer who trolls sites looking for victims that will love him. He's matched up with a lonely woman and we get the predictable twist. This was sort of a downer installment to end on but it's still quirky and fun Reggie is a bit to OTP for me
Holidays
Old School
- Witchery (1988)
- A Bucket of Blood (1959)
- Critters (1986)
- Halloween (1978)
- Night of the Creeps (1987)
- Alone in the Dark (1982)
New School
- Hell Fest (2018)
- Unsane (2018)
- I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House(2016)
- Dead Night (2017)
- The Babysitter (2017)
- Holidays (2016)