Blanketyy Review (Short Film, 2020) #31DaysofHorror

Blanketyy Review (Short Film, 2020) #31DaysofHorror

Robert J Gannon
Film, Reviews

A team of researchers and coders are working around the clock on a project that could change the course of literary history. Their goal is to teach a computer AI to write fictional stories. The problem is what the computer produces is not sensible. It goes into a tailspin of possibility, turning the main characters into adjectives, verbs, objects, pronouns, and everything else you can imagine when faced with the infinite possibilities of creation. The Woman in charge of the project is willing to try anything to get the results she wants, putting her and her staff in increasingly strange situations for the sake of innovation.

Spookier Times Episode 3: Halloween 2020: Roger Corman's Poe Films, Murder (The Look in Your Eyes), and Decoding the Beauty of Terror with Edgar Allan Poe

Spookier Times Episode 3: Halloween 2020: Roger Corman's Poe Films, Murder (The Look in Your Eyes), and Decoding the Beauty of Terror with Edgar Allan Poe

Robert J Gannon
Film, Music, SD Media, Theater, TV

In the Halloween special of Spookier Times, we take a look at the father of American horror Edgar Allan Poe. His work is captured to near perfection in Roger Corman's collaborations with Vincent Price and screenwriter Richard Matheson. From there, we get a sample of the upcoming short musical "Tick," inspired by "The Tell-Tale Heart." Then, we close out with further recommendations, including the musical "Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe," Raul Garcia's animated anthology film "Extraordinary Tales," Stuart Gordon's film "The Pit and the Pendulum," and "The Raven" short from "The Simpsons."

Primal Screen Review (Short Film, 2017) #31DaysofHorror

Primal Screen Review (Short Film, 2017) #31DaysofHorror

Robert J Gannon
Film, Reviews

“Primal Screen” explores this with the uncanny valley and the fear of dolls and puppets. The shared inciting incident for the interview subjects is one of my favorite films, 1978’s Magic. This is the evil ventriloquist dummy film starring Anthony Hopkins and it is terrifying. I never saw the trailer for the film before this documentary and I can see how an entire generation of children are still scarred by it.

Phantasm IV: Oblivion Review (Film, 1998) #31DaysofHorror

Phantasm IV: Oblivion Review (Film, 1998) #31DaysofHorror

Robert J Gannon
Film, Reviews

Phantasm IV: Oblivion is the fourth entry in the long-running Phantasm series. The actual history of production makes the passage of time a significant part of the story with each new entry. The original debuted in 1979. Nine years later, Phantasm II. Six years later, Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead. Four years later, Phantasm IV: Oblivion. In the world of the story, time has barely passed. Most of the films pick up immediately after the last story and go running off in a new direction. In reality, 19 years have passed. People change a lot in 19 years and that’s a powerful tool to use in a film series set in and around graveyards, mausoleums, and the nature of life and death.

Unfriended Review (Film, 2015) The Archives #31DaysofHorror

Unfriended Review (Film, 2015) The Archives #31DaysofHorror

Robert J Gannon
Film, Reviews

The plot of Unfriended is simple and effective. Six friends chat in Skype with a mysterious seventh person on the call. That person claims to be the ghost of Laura who wants them to confess to their roles in her death by suicide. One by one, the friends are forced to play various games all connected to the same rule: you log off, you die. Tell the truth and you might get out alive. Unfriended is a powerful narrative about cyberbullying, new forms of communication, and the inescapable social structures that surround us all.

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