Category: Other

  • Child’s Play

    I spent a long time debating whether or not to include Child’s Play on this list. I usually try to avoid the obvious choices, but Chucky is one of the most iconic evil toys, and I think many people might have forgotten that the franchise started out played straight. You were really supposed to be…

  • Dead Silence

    It’s my favorite time of year! October is when I let myself blog about my favorite thing to watch while knitting: B-horror. For the last five years, I’ve shared some of my favorite bad b-horror movies once a week for the whole month. I call it the Month of Horrible Movies. The first year had…

  • Slither

    Halloween is almost here, and it’s time to wrap up the Month of Horrible Movies. The last monster movie for our list is Slither, a horror-comedy about slug-like creatures and small-town drama. After fighting with his wife Starla, Grant becomes infected by a strange pod and slowly starts to transform into a monster. He infects…

  • Night of the Demon

    The 50s were the heyday of monster movies, and there are tons of amazingly bad ones to choose from. My mom used to stockpile them to watch with me when I came home for breaks in college, and Night of the Demon, also known as Curse of the Demon, is one of the more memorable…

  • Mimic

    Guillermo del Toro’s new movie Crimson Peak comes out this week, and it felt right to make this week’s horrible monster movie one of his early films, Mimic! Mimic starts out very creepy and atmospheric like you might expect from a del Toro movie. An epidemic is being spread by cockroaches, so an insect is…