Nicholas Bruner
Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Young Adult Author
Tag: movies
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)”
Scary Movies: Prometheus
Prometheus came out in 2012 as a prequel to the Alien franchise, set a couple hundred years before the other movies. I’ve reviewed nearly all the movies in the series here, and they really run the gamut. The first Alien movie is one of… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: Prometheus”
Scary Movies: Trick ‘r Treat
Here’s a Halloween-themed horror movie that’s been highly recommended to me by other horror fans a couple times over the years, so I was eager to see it. I think it could be filed under the category of cult classic. It was certainly cleverly… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: Trick ‘r Treat”
