Tag: It Follows

Five of our favorite ferocious and frightening films for Halloween

Jeff Mitchell

Halloween is right around the creepy, chilling corner, so here are five of our critic’s favorite, ferocious, and frightening horror films! All-time: “The Thing” (1982) – John Carpenter’s remake of “The Thing from Another World” (1951) has a deserved reputation for its extreme gore and wild practical effects, but it’s much more than buckets of blood and innards thrown at the screen.  It’s an intense whodunnit and works exceptionally well in the isolated confines of a U.S. Government station located on Earth’s most lonely continent.  Kurt Russell leads an exceptional…

Movie of the Week: ‘It Follows’

Jeff Mitchell

AHFW’s Movie of the Week is another one of our favorite horror films, David Robert Mitchell’s sensational and scary “It Follows”. “It Follows” (2015) – Writer/director David Robert Mitchell creates a horror film masterpiece with a story of a mysterious being who singularly follows an ordinary student through the Detroit suburbs.  Mitchell’s movie offers an obscure late 70s/early 80s vibe with the period’s cars, clothes, and living room decors while accompanying the landscape with a synthesizer-filled soundtrack and hand-wringing sequences reminiscent of 1978’s “Halloween”.  With its unsettling creepiness and a…