Category: 31 Nights, 31 Frights

  • 31 Nights, 31 Frights: Night of the Living Dead

    31 Nights, 31 Frights: Night of the Living Dead
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    Few living director’s can lay claim to inventing a movie genre, but that’s just what George A. Romero did with this unsettlingly lurid social commentary. Confining the action to a few rooms in an abandoned farmhouse, Romero creates a siege mentality meant to emulate the struggle in Vietnam at the time. Read more

  • 31 Nights, 31 Frights: Scream

    31 Nights, 31 Frights: Scream
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    Following on the heels of his very-meta New Nightmare, horror veteran Wes Craven serves up a reflexive revival of the diluted and nigh-dead slasher subgenre. With Scream, he reinvigorated the conventions of horror even as he simultaneously skewered and savored them. Read more