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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 2: The Black Scorpion (1957)
For both very good reasons and very, very silly reasons, we humans are terrified of arthropods--specifically insects and spiders. We are so terrified of them that we cannot help imagining how deadly...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 3: Crocodile (2000)
If you have been following my reviews for a while now or read them in alphabetical order, you may recall that I once tried to get a copy of Crocodile from my local library, only to end up with a copy...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 4: Demonoid: Messenger of Death (1980)
I'm going to level with you, dear readers: I chose to review this flick at least partially because it has one of the most bitchin' posters I have ever seen. I mean, just look at that amazing work of...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 5: Evil of Dracula (1974)
One of the challenges of HubrisWeen is that if you choose to do a series of films, you aren't always able to do them in the correct order. Today's film is a casualty of that, as I knew I wanted to talk...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 6: Forbidden World (1982)
Roger Corman never misses a chance to get more money out of a production, and one of the better demonstrations of this is the opening of today's film. According to the director, the opening scene was...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 7: The Green Slime (1968)
You know what's a sadly neglected musical niche these days? Rockin' horror movie theme songs, that's what. It's a bit of a stretch to say that it used to a booming industry, but today's film has what...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 8: The Horror of Party Beach (1964)
Somehow I had managed to make it all the way to 2018 without seeing this film, despite knowing it very well by reputation. So when the fine folks at Severin Films put it out on Blu-ray this year, I was...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 9: It Came From Beneath The Sea (1955)
I mentioned previously that in the early stages of development, the titular monster of the original Godzilla almost ended up being a giant octopus. Thankfully, that did not happen since I doubt the...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 10: Jennifer's Body (2009)
Diablo Cody is a somewhat divisive creator. She broke onto the scene with the screenplay for Juno in 2007, which won her an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. For a follow-up, she wrote the screenplay...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 11: Kaiju Mono (2016)
Since about 2013, it has been a great time to be a kaiju fan. The releases and moderate successes of Pacific Rim in 2013 and Godzilla in 2014 showed filmmakers in both East and West that audiences were...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 12: Lake of Dracula (1971)
As I mentioned in my review of Evil of Dracula, the requirements of doing these reviews in alphabetical order means we are doing this trilogy in reverse. However, the fact these three films have no...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 13: The Meg (2018)
Considering what it takes to get a movie made, it isn't shocking that so many projects languish in development hell. However, few have languished quite so long in that Hell as today's film.Steve...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 14: Night of The Seagulls (1975)
It took me rather an embarrassingly long amount of time to finally catch up to Amando de Ossorio's famed series of Blind Dead movies, which began in 1971 with Tombs of the Blind Dead. Considering they...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 15: One Million B.C. (1940)
Today's film was not actually my first choice for O. However, as much as I would have loved to discuss The Oily Maniac, it had a few too many elements that I did not feel comfortable talking about so...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 16: Piranha II: The Spawning (1981)
When you're delivering a sequel, you really need to give the audience something they haven't seen before instead of just repeating the first film. James Cameron has rather keenly understood this...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 17: A Quiet Place (2018)
Whenever a hugely successful and/or critically loved horror movie comes out, you can bet there will be a vocal contingent of detractors. Sometimes the detractors have fair points, sometimes they just...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 18: Rampage (2018)
Video game movies are a largely maligned genre and it's not hard to see why. I mean, if you've seen Super Mario Bros. you're probably just as amazed as the rest of us that that didn't stop anyone from...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 19: Spasms (1983)
Growing up, I saw today's film in my local video store many times. However, neither the copy on the VHS box nor anything about the cover art suggested that the film within was not merely about...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 20: Terminator 2: Shocking Dark (1989)
When it came time to choose the title for this film to review it, I decided it was best to just settle on the version that combines its two best known titles--and also shows how wonderfully shameless...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 21: The Untamed (2016)
When The Shape of Water was released, I was a bit astounded by how many people were simply unable to get past the core premise. Namely, a woman having consensual sex with a monster. While I can totally...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 22: The Vampire Doll (1970)
Thanks to the necessities of doing this all in reverse order, we finally come to the beginning of the Bloodthirsty Trilogy that would later give us Lake of Dracula and Evil of Dracula. Having watched...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 23: The Werewolf and The Yeti (1975)
As a werewolf fan, it was only natural I would hear about Paul Naschy at some point. The man had a hugely prolific career as a horror actor (and director as well), but he is most well-known for a...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 24: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec (2010)
[Yes, I am sort of cheating by using this as my X review, but that's what the Blank Scrabble Tile is for!]Luc Besson sure has a varied resume, doesn't he? Most recently he decided to adapt an...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 25: Yor, The Hunter From The Future (1983)
Honestly, I am ashamed of myself for not trying to stuff this year's entries with more Italian genre rip-offs. Still, this is arguably among the more infamous of the lot--if video stores were a part of...
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HubrisWeen 2018, Day 26: Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018)
Yes, that's right: I am reviewing a Disney Channel Original Movie. Yes, it is a musical about zombies that uses them as a very clumsy allegory for racism and classism. And, yes, my son did choose this...
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