Day 18: Alien (1979)
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Day 18: Alien (1979)

It's Day 18 today, and I'm extremely excited to be talking about the 1979 Sci-fi/Horror classic Alien with you guys. Alien is directed by Ridley Scott, and stars a young Sigourney Weaver as the Supreme Badass of the Final Frontier: Ellen Ripley. I have no idea how this is possible, but up until now, I'd managed to go my entire life without ever having seen this movie. It's not that I purposely avoided it, but I'm not a huge extraterrestrial/space movie person--I suppose I just never got around to it. Suffice it to say that I'm glad I finally did. Y'all, Alien has 8.5…
Day 17: Deep Red (1975)
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Day 17: Deep Red (1975)

For Day 17 this year, we'll be jumping right into the "Giallo" film world with Dario Argento's Deep Red!! Now, I suspect many of you aren't familiar with the "Giallo" style. To be honest, I wasn't either. But it seemed that everytime I began doing serious research into horror film history, certain movies kept popping up again and again. Suspiria is one of those films, as well as Blood and Black Lace and Deep Red. And they're all attributed to this Italian "Giallo" genre. So, what were these films from Italy? And why are they constantly cited? Well, "giallo" means…
Day 16: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)
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Day 16: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)

Well, we are officially past the halfway mark in our 31 Days of Horror series, which puts us in the 1970s! Today we're talking about another film that belongs to one of my favorite sub-genres: Hag Horror. The movie in question is 1972's Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, and it's quite the humdinger. It's a modern-day take on the tale of Hansel and Gretel, and Shelley Winters stars as the titular Auntie Roo. Man, poor Shelley Winters. Despite a colorful, decades-long career and numerous Oscar nominations/wins, she never seems to get to play somebody whom you actually like. To me, Winters will forever be the frumpy sad-sack,…