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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 17h

A magician makes gruesome spectacles of pretty young audience members in the hypnotic gross-out flick, THE WIZARD OF GORE. @shoutstudios.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/w...

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 1d

A scientist brings home a pretty young orphan to serve as a housemaid and his wife begins to suspect sinister, supernatural goings on in the oddball but enjoyable Korean horror flick, SUDDENLY IN THE DARK. @terrorvisionvids.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/s...

Kaleidoscopic Nightmares: Suddenly in the Dark (1981)

Biology professor Kang Yu-jin (Yun Il-Bong) has a generally happy home with his wife Seon-he (Ae Kim Young) and daughter Gyeong-ah. However, he spends a lot of time in the field, looking for new an…

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 2d

What was lost is found again! #TonyTodd appears as a mad scientist in the campy but charming @fullmoonfeatures.bsky.social flick, CUTTERS CLUB. #Tubi consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/c...

2-Head is Better Than One: Cutter’s Club (2025)

Jill Stevenson (Melissa Searing) is a gifted surgical student with a love for the knife and blood. Gets her hot. One night, she convinces her fellow student boyfriend Jack Louis (Davee Youngblood) …

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 3d

Appearing among several famous horror personalities, #TonyTodd appears for a couple of scenes in the low budget survival horror siege story, HELLBLAZERS. #Tubi consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/h...

The Night Trouble Came to Town: Hellblazers (2022)

Sheriff Joe Anderson (Ed Morrone) left NYC for the small-town life for personal reasons. Nothing he’d care to talk about with his deputies Teddy (Crash Buist) or Deanna (Danielle Gross), or waitres…

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 4d

It’s the sequel to the gruesome Old School American Horror flick! #TonyTodd plays the sleazy human antagonist pitting a group of hunters and a clueless survivor against supernatural slasher Victor Crowley in HATCHET II. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/h...

Breaking the Curse: Hatchet II (2010)

Marybeth Dunston (Danielle Harris) has survived hell … barely. Unlike the friends who accompanied her on the trip into the Louisiana swamps on a tour, she has faced the deadly and monstrous Victor …

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 4d

A handful of stories explore the darkest regions of the human heart and horror to be found in African environs. #NuzoOnoh spins some wonderfully grim and moving horror yarns with THE RELUCTANT DEAD. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/r...

Missives From the Death Route: Nuzo Onoh’s The Reluctant Dead

A companion volume of sorts to her novella collection Unhallowed Graves, Nuzo Onoh’s collection The Reluctant Dead gathers six stories about people coming face to face with the unquiet dead, reluct…

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 5d

WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: #TonyTodd returns as the titular monster in the oddity, CANDYMAN: DAY OF THE DEAD. Something of a franchise killer, this direct to DVD entry is a bit overstuffed with plot, but Todd is nevertheless brilliant. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/c...

Sweets to the Sweet: Candyman 3: Day of the Dead (1999)

Twenty-five years after the events that plagued Annie Tarrant and Paul McKeever in Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995), their child Caroline McKeever (Donna D’Errico) is all grown up and living …

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 5d

Relocated to New Orleans, the hook handed legend finds new blood to spill and a new woman to pursue in #BillCondon’s CANDYMAN: FAREWELL TO THE FLESH. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/c...

Be My Witness: Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)

Annie Tarrant (Kelly Rowan) is dealing with several big troubles. The kids in her art class are haunted by rumors of the killer at large walking the streets of New Orleans. Her mother, Octavia (Ver…

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 5d

A young woman finds her campground horror movie simulation has turned deadly serious in #KalynnBayron’s YA slasher novel, YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DIE TONIGHT. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/y...

More Than the Owls Are Watching: Kalynn Bayron’s You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight

Charity is used to deciding who will make it to the end of the night alive. As the Final Girl in a horror attraction, she will use her power to punch up, punishing the guests who show up without an…

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 7d

Of course, #TonyTodd made his enduring mark on cinema in 1992 when he played #CliveBarker’s fabulous monster in #BernardRose’s CANDYMAN. #VirginiaMadsen is brilliant as Todd’s costar and the film’s flawed heroine. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/c...

Be My Victim: Candyman (1992)

Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) and Bernadette Walsh (Kasi Lemmons) are grad student researchers interested in the mutability and survival of urban legends. The student populace of University of Illin…

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 8d

Fearless #TonyTodd and #PatriciaTallman star in #TomSavini’s engaging remake of #GeorgeARomero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1990). consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/n...

Magic Tricks: Night of the Living Dead (1990)

When Barbara (Patricia Tallman) and her brother come to the remote graveyard to leave flowers for their departed mother, Johnnie (Bill Moseley) learns his sister is somewhat nervous about the grave…

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 8d

This week, we take a look at seven films featuring the legendary Tony Todd (RIP).

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 8d

Chronicling the behind the scenes activities of an extreme haunt is where the film HAUNT SEASON is at its best. Adding in a slasher horror plot is where it has the chance to be fun horror fare. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/h...

What Kind Are You: Theater Kid, Exhibitionist, or Psychopath? Haunt Season (2024)

When Matilda (Sarah Elizabeth) came to Chicago for University, she made a great group of friends among her fellow theater kids. However, following graduation, they’ve all gone to New York and LA to…

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 11d

An overnight horror movie festival turns deadly in the gruesome yet fun, heartfelt horror flick, BLOOD FEST. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/b...

Three Endings for Horror Movies: Blood Fest (2018)

When Dax Conway (Tristan Riggs) was a young kid, he loved watching scary movies with his Mom (Samantha Ireland). Unfortunately, someone else loved them a little too much, dressed up as a killer, br…

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 11d

A pair of friends fearing a werewolf curse head out to a haunted campground, only to discover there are worse things than werewolves in the low budget, charming, horror-comedy SHAKY SHIVERS. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/s...

The Gold is in the Sweetness and the Sweetness is in the Soul. To Make One Sweet, You Gotta Make Them Whole: Shaky Shivers (2022)

Lucy (Brooke Markham) and Karen (VyVy Nguyen) have been best friends since high school. Now that they’ve graduated, they’re trying to get by working together at the Friendly Freeze ice cream shop. …

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 11d

Quinn returns, chasing down the losers who invaded her town of Kettle Springs and finding herself beset by a murderous cult in #AdamCesare’s third entry in his YA slasher series. CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD 3: THE CHURCH OF FRENDO is a fun ride. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/c...

Quinn Maybrook Hits the Road: Adam Cesare’s Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo

Quinn Maybrook has decided to take the fight to her oppressors. After returning to Kettle Springs, Missouri for a night of terror in which a horde of internet fiends descended upon the town to teac…

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 13d

WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: CGI monsters run amok in the wonderfully silly creature feature pitting DINOCROC VS. SUPERGATOR! Cheesy, campy fun for the right mindset; mindbogglingly dumb for the wrong one. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/d...

All Chomping, All the Time: Dinocroc vs. Supergator (2010)

When a secret facility’s genetic experiments escape, there is much havoc! The lovely but traumatized scientist Kimberly Taft (Delia Sheppard) makes the call to her shady funding mastermind, Jason D…

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 13d

A wicked force invades a high school beset by conservative values, using those values to get new victims for its unholy hunger in the wonderfully satiric horror comedy, CHASTITY BITES. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/c...

Heathen Whore is the New Black, Baby: Chastity Bites (2013)

Leah (Allison Scagliotti) is a reporter for her high school paper, looking to break some solid stories about the abuses of power and the irritations of her heavily conservative home town. Few peopl…

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 13d

A grieving woman in search of peace agrees to house sit a large manor in a remote village, only to discover she can hear the ghost of the child she lost. How can a ghost haunt a place it never visited, or are there strange secrets in THE COLD HOUSE? consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/c...

Subtle, Creeping Dread: A. G. Slatter’s The Cold House

Four months after the deaths of her husband and daughter, Dr. Everly Bainbridge is still grappling with grief and discovering how trapped and overwhelmed she feels. She’s not troubled for money—her…

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 13d

A grieving woman in search of peace agrees to house sit a large manor in a remote village, only to discover she can hear the ghost of the child she lost. How can a ghost haunt a place it never visited, or are there strange secrets in THE COLD HOUSE? consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/c...

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 14d

A pair of silly micro monsters get stuck on earth and wind up failing their way to success as they take on a bizarre warlock and his lovely, lethal sidekick in #JimWynorski’s GHOULIES IV. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/g...

Girlfriends Are Trouble, But Ex-Girlfriends Can Be Good to Have Around: Ghoulies IV (1994)

Former college student turned occultist Jonathan Graves (Peter Liapis) has grown up and become a cop. After his recent partner Scotty (Bobby Di Cicco) cracks up following a hyper violent liquor sto…

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 15d

Six stories with All Hallows Eve themes compose the latest entry in the long running franchise: V/H/S/HALLOWEEN. The last one is the best, but there’s bound to be *something* in the others to spark faux found footage horror fan interest. @shudder.com consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/v...

Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet, Give Me Something Good to Eat: V/H/S/Halloween (2025)

The latest edition of the V/H/S series dropped on Shudder on Friday, Oct. 3. It contains five stories set amidst a framing story that doesn’t really frame the individual stories so much as appear i…

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 16d

The Warrens meddle in a family’s haunting and wind up performing an exorcism in a horror movie many people enjoyed. The story of THE CONJURING does not work for me, though the picture itself looks good and is well made. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/04/c...

Latching On: The Conjuring (2013)

In 1971, the Perron family moves into a rural home in Harrisville, Rhode Island. All their money is sunk into the property (of course), and patriarch Roger Perron (Ron Livingston) is working extra …

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 17d

With the rage virus supposedly under control in Britain, American military forces act as peacekeepers during an initial repopulation. What can possibly go wrong? Just about everything when an asymptomatic victim spreads the disease in 28 WEEKS LATER. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/2...

Isle of (Rabid) Dogs: 28 Weeks Later (2007)

Don (Robert Carlyle) is finally being reunited with his children. They were out of the UK while the worst of the Infected incident went down. Luckily, 28 weeks following the initial outbreak, it se…

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Daniel Robichaud @danielrobichaud.bsky.social · 19d

A family assembles to hear the reading of a wealthy man’s will, and terror follows in the original, silent film version of the famed play, THE CAT AND THE CANARY. Visually stunning and wonderfully atmospheric stuff … that also has a sense of humor. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/c...

Evil Omens and Expressionist Nightmares: The Cat and the Canary (1927)

When elderly (and wealthy) eccentric Cyrus West finally passes away, his remaining family gathers at his estate for the reading of his will. There, they learn that the full fortune will pass to you…

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