Nicholas Bruner
Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Young Adult Author
Tag: movies
Scary Movies: Obsession
Bear is a failure-to-launch guy, stuck in a cool but ultimately dead-end retail job at a used record store. He’s totally and completely in love with a beautiful co-worker, Nikki, who he knows is out of his league. Another co-worker who’s a friend, Ian,… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: Obsession”
Scary Movies: Misery
Misery is a rarity–a top-shelf, major studio produced-horror film, directed by Rob Reiner (!) and starring big stars like James Caan, Catherine Bates, and Lauren Bacall (!). It’s a movie I’ve heard a lot about over the years and wanted to see for a… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: Misery”
Scary Movies: Primate
Primate is a movie about a pet chimpanzee, really a beloved family member, who gets rabies and in a short time turns from gentle companion to terrifying predator. It’s not deep, but it’s entertaining enough and well made for what it is. I don’t… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: Primate”
Scary Movies: Theatre of Blood
Theatre of Blood is a highly entertaining horror and black comedy from 1973 starring Vincent Price and Diana Rigg (the Bond girl from the best Bond movie, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service). In fact, I would say this is one of the best Vincent… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: Theatre of Blood”
Scary Movies: Iron Lung
There have been more than a few low budget horror movies that were masterpieces. Indeed, I’ve reviewed a few them here–Carnival of Souls, Night of the Living Dead, The Blair Witch Project. Even Halloween, which I didn’t rate that highly, at least came across… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: Iron Lung”
Scary Movies: Alien: Covenant
This is it: with this review, I’m caught up reviewing all the movies in the Alien franchise. The first Alien movie is one of only two horror movies I’ve reviewed to receive a perfect score, while its follow up Aliens got a rating of 6.5,… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: Alien: Covenant”
Scary Movies: Pumpkinhead
As usual, I’m running behind in my reviews of movies I watched during the Halloween season. But we’ve come to the final movie in our theme this year, which was Halloween itself, for which I think Pumpkinhead was quite fitting. I was a little… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: Pumpkinhead”
Scary Movies: Frankenstein (2025)
Of the classic movie monsters, my favorite is Frankenstein’s monster, so I was keenly interested to see this new version, directed by Guillermo del Toro. Oddly, I had a hard time finding a movie theater that was playing it. I live in an area… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: Frankenstein (2025)”
