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My Shudder Pick of the Month is the Stephen King-Approved The Rule of Jenny Pen, a Compelling Look at the Horror of Aging With Great Turns from John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush

For my Shudder pick of the month, I watched a compelling New Zealand horror movie about the agony of old age, with terrific performances by Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow as a lunatic who does sick things with the titular baby doll puppet.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 31, 2025John Lithgow, Geoffrey Rush, horror, nursing home, Film, New Zealand 6 Comments

Brad Dourif Month Continues With a Loving Look Back at 2004's Seed of Chucky

By the fifth film in the original series, the Child’s Play franchise had gotten ridiculously silly in a most delightful, meta kind of way.

Sub-CultNathan RabinJanuary 10, 2025Brad Dourif, horror, sequel, Scream, Jennifer Tilly 12 Comments

Brad Dourif Month Continues with a Rerun of this Piece on His Epic Turn in 1991's Body Parts

At the request of a very special patron, I take an affectionate look at the wonderfully preposterous Body Parts, a 1991 horror movie from the screenwriter of Near Dark and The Hitcher about a worst-case scenario when receiving a transplant: Murder Arm, a debilitating ailment that makes you want to murder everyone you meet.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJanuary 4, 2025Eric Red, Near Dark, Body Horror, Brad Dourif, Jeff Fahey, horror, body horror, Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 22 Comments

In Honor of the Late, Great Tony Todd, I am Rerunning This Piece on Candyman

You know what movie REALLY holds up? The cult classic horror thriller Candyman. What a picture!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinNovember 10, 2024Tony Todd, Virginia Madsen, Clive Barker, horror, Chicago, Cabrini-Green, race, Kasi Lemmons, Xander Berkley, Bernard Rose 36 Comments

Creep 2 Takes the Micro-Franchise In a Fascinatingly Satirical, Meta Direction

The sequel to Creep took the series in a darkly comic, self-referential and very fun direction.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinOctober 9, 2024Mark Duplass, sequel, found footage, horror, Blumhouse 12 Comments

Mark Duplass Is a Memorable Mumblecore Monster in the Nifty 2014 Found Footage Cult Hit Creep

Mark Duplass plays a creep looking for a friend to murder in the nifty 2014 found footage horror film Creep.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinOctober 7, 2024Mark Duplass, horror, found footage, Patrick Bice, serial killer 6 Comments

The 1973 Wicker Man is Just Like the Nicolas Cage Remake, Only Brilliant

1973’s The Wicker Man is a towering classic, a masterpiece of atmosphere and inference. Its remake is not.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJuly 31, 2024Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward, horror, film, classic, Nicolas Cage 33 Comments

The Banana Splits Movie Prankishly Re-Imagined Lovable Costumed Characters as Remorseless Murderers

The Banana Splits Movie ratchets up the creepiness of The Banana Splits Show to horrific extremes.

This Looks WeirdNathan RabinApril 24, 2024Five Nights at Freddy's, animatronics, Hanna-Barbera, The Krofft Brothers, horror, horror comedy, Film 10 Comments

Best of 2023: In 2022's Surreally Misconceived Halloween Ends Michael Myers Makes a New Halloween Friend in Corey, the Worst Character in the History of Film

It’s all about Corey, baby, in the spectacularly misconceived 2022 stinker Halloween Ends.

My World Of Flops, Great Catch UpNathan RabinDecember 27, 2023Jamie Lee Curtis, Corey, Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, horror, sequel 57 Comments

Before Five Nights at Friday's There Was the 2021 Nicolas Cage vehicle Willy's Wonderland, Which Also Sucked, But Was Slightly Better

It’s Nicolas Cage versus Satanic Chuck E. Cheeses in Willy’s Wonderland, a movie that is ultimately pretty damn silly.

The Travolta/Cage Project, Travolta/CageNathan RabinDecember 4, 2023Nicolas Cage, Chuck E. Cheese, horror, horror thriller 34 Comments