Welcome once again to the month of October, where we get to talk about all things spooky and scary in cinema! To kick off this year’s run of Halloween-flavoured Midweek Movie Mouth-Offs, let’s talk about what makes scary movies scary to you.

There are many sub-genres that are encompassed by the “scary movie” label. There are cross-overs between them, and movies that can be both, but for the sake of simplicity let’s narrow it down to two. You have gore-fests like Hostel or Saw which are all about the blood, guts and torture. On the other hand, you have more cerebral-centred mind-f*** …

Continuing with our scary movie theme for October, let’s talk about the movies that utterly failed to scare you. Maybe they tried too hard, maybe the premise was just too ridiculous to follow, or maybe they were just a hot mess. For me, this was definitely House of Wax. Seriously, what the heck was going on with that? Besides for …

Welcome to October, the month of scary movies! I’ve decided that, seeing as I’ve been given free reign over the Midweek Movie Mouth-Off (muahahaha!), we’re going to have a month of discussing all things Halloween. To start off, let’s talk about the first scary movie you ever saw. Now, depending on how old you were, the first scary movie you …