July 12th Horror Trivia Screening List

To all those who came here from the event or Storm Crow's FB page, welcome! I am Jay, one half of the horror trivia quizmasters and this is my humble blog.

If you heard a title while at the last event and thought “oh that movie sounds cool, I should check that out”, here's a comprehensive list of all the films that were mentioned. Click on the titles to be redirected to their Imdb listing.

For everyone else, maybe there's one or two here you have yet to catch. Horror Trivia Night happens at Storm Crow Manor in Toronto. If you're in the area, come on down! Register here. If you're not local, we do often stream the event on @ruemorguemag Instagram.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Skinamarink (2022)

The Shining (1980)

Scream VI (2023)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Doctor Sleep (2019)

Crawl (2019)

Rogue (2007)

The Shallows (2016)

Lake Placid (1999)

American Psycho (2000)

Videodrome (1983)

Black Christmas (1984)

Resident Evil - Apocalypse (2004)

Urban Legend (1998)

Jason X (2001)

Mimic (1997)

Wrong Turn (2003)

Deadly Eyes (1982)

In The Mouth of Madness (1994)

Black Swan (2010)

Evil Dead Rise (2023)

Land of the Dead (2005)

Fright Night Part 2 (1988)

Halloween II (1981)

Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

The Innkeepers (2011)

Nosferatu (1922)

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

Martin (1977)

The Lost Boys (1987)

Fright Night (1985)

Cronos (1992)

30 Days of Night (2007)

Interview With A Vampire (1994)

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

The Hunger (1983)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Trailer Tuesdays: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

Arrow Films' new limited edition release of Dario Argento's 1970 debut The Bird with the Crystal Plumage comes out today. Here's the release trailer.

I adore this film. It was my introduction to the gialli and still remains one of my absolute favourites. I received this set in the mail last Friday and it is absolutely gorgeous. I entertained the thought of doing an un-boxing video, but it would never be as good as Industrial Blue's so just take a gander at his below.

I can't wait to dig into this set.

Horror 101

Recently I read through the newly re-issued tome from Stephen Jay Schneider, 101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die.

This was an easily digestible book that gives you a pretty concise rundown of the last hundred years of horror films. Broken down by decade, I was happy to see a fairly even distribution with equal representation given to the silent and silver screen eras. I was pretty impressed by how much info was packed into the two small pages alloted for each title. And with over three dozen contributors, there were also many different voices to be heard, as well.

The classics were naturally plentiful with the good majority of the titles being no-brainers, but it did have its share of deep cuts, including the Man Bites Dog, Viy and Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. This is a solid resource for the casual fan, though the bigger appeal for the more discerning horrorphile may likely be in nitpicking the choices. I must admit I had only had issues with titles that were left off the list, like Sam Raimi's Evil Dead (they opted for Evil Dead II instead) and whether or not Deathdream was a better representation of Bob Clark's career than Black Christmas. I'm also going to assume that The Thing and Alien were carried over to Schneider's Sci-Fi edition of the series.

This book was originally released in 2009, so it was little shocking that only a pair of titles were added to this updated edition – Let The Right One In and It Follows. At first I was like, there have only been two must-see titles released in since 2007?? (The Orphanage was the final title in the first edition). The sad reality is that there have been a ton of really good films over the last decade, but very few that transcend and define the genre. You also have to take into account that to put those two titles on the list, they would have had to take two titles off. I wonder which two got bumped?

101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die is a decent compendium of the best of the best. It's a to-do list for those who want to get their feet bloody and a conversation starter for the more hardcore fans out there.