Horror Films – Page 2 – Idol Features

Friday the 13th Victim, Tina

Friday, September 13, 2019 Chris Charles 1

One of the most memorable deaths in the Friday the 13th franchise, for a pair of good reasons, has to be that of Tina in 1985’s Friday the 13th: A New Beginning. The actress playing Tina also has a memorable name.

Monsters from the Deep Terrorizing Ladies on Land

Wednesday, June 26, 2019 Rock Baker and Chris Charles 0

For the videonaut like myself, the mere mention of the beach brings to mind images of beautiful girls in bikinis, Navy researchers, crusty fishermen, and some occasional aquatic monsters on the loose.

Baker’s Log – A Quick Look: Sound of Horror (1964)

Thursday, August 9, 2018 Rock Baker 0

A party of scientists discover an ancient cave, and what they think to be fossil eggs. However, the eggs haven’t turned to stone and soon a monstrous prehistoric beast is on the loose!

Baker’s Log – A Quick Look: The Beast with 1,000,000 Eyes (1955)

Friday, July 20, 2018 Rock Baker 0

One of the earliest releases by the studio that would shortly become American International, was The Beast with 1,000,000 Eyes (aka The Unseen)

Friday the 13th Victim, Maddy

Friday, July 13, 2018 Chris Charles 0

It’s that day again and in our customary recognition of that, here we have Maddy’s untimely demise in the 1988 entry into the Friday the 13th franchise, Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood.

Friday the 13th Victim, Melissa

Friday, April 13, 2018 Chris Charles 0

For our customary Friday the 13th piece today, we have crazed killer Jason Vorhees burying the hatchet (well, yes, it’s a full-sized ax) in Melissa’s head in 1988’s Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood.

Friday the 13th Victim, Amanda

Friday, October 13, 2017 Chris Charles 0

To do something a little different with this Friday the 13th piece, here’s a pre-death scene of one of the higher-profile actresses whose character became another notch on Jason’s Voorhees’ machete.

Baker’s Log – Twins of Evil

Sunday, July 16, 2017 Rock Baker 0

Here’s one I haven’t gotten yet, though it’s on the list. Hammer’s Twins of Evil came along during the studio’s last gasps as a horror factory. Though they had dominated the Gothic horror market beginning in the late 50s.

Baker’s Log – A Quick Look: The Birds (1962)

Tuesday, February 21, 2017 Rock Baker 0

The Birds is the closest thing the screen’s Master of Suspense ever came to making a “monster movie.” Its key scenes continue to be copied by “zombie movies” to this day.

Michael Myers’ Victim, Kelly Meeker

Monday, October 31, 2016 Chris Charles 0

1988’s Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, marked ….well, the return of Michael Myers to the Halloween franchise, of course. He came back after the series took a one-film departure from the adventures of the Haddonfield mass-murderer with 1982’s

The Ladies of Die Die Delta Pi

Sunday, October 30, 2016 Chris Charles 1

Sean Donohue’s indie slasher, Die Die Delta Pi, was probably shot a couple of years earlier than its year of release, judging by the looks of a couple of the actresses in the film. It’s not bad for a film of its type with a modest budget, but that’s mainly because of its female cast.

Friday the 13th Victim, Judy

Friday, May 13, 2016 Chris Charles 1

Throughout the Friday the 13th franchise (except for the first one, of course, since it was mom doing the killing in that one), Jason Voorhees has always been an innovative and resourceful murderer. A prime example of that is this