Tripping Through Gateways
Entering the Alternate Worlds of the Movies
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Following In Their Footsteps (Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, 2006)
Freddy. Jason. Michael. Pinhead. Leslie. You’ve heard of Leslie right? No? Well, of course you haven’t…yet. The conceit of Behind the Mask is that all the slasher villains are real land live in one big old extended universe. A news team with the hopes…
Killer Halloween Party (The Funhouse Massacre, 2015)
On Halloween Night some of the most vile serial killers the world has ever seen are freed from a top secret prison facility. They hide out in a funhouse and start to kill off the patrons. A group of friends attends the event, discovering…
Dancing Thing (Masters of Horror: Dance of the Dead, 2005 & the Damned Thing, 2006)
The Masters of Horror series aired on Showtime. The Masters of Horror is a gathering of Horror Directors, it is a loose conglomerate of folks in the Horror community started by Mick Garris. The idea behind the show is various popular horror directors contributing…
It’s Alive! (The Mangler, 1995)
This is…a weird film. Englund is back for another round with Hooper and he is clearly having a blast this time around.After a tragic accident with an old and giant folding machine at the local laundry, Detective John Hunton finds himself drawn into a…
Making Friends (Night Terrors, 1993)
The film opens with the Marquis de Sade in prison. We witness him being tortured and then once in his cell, he starts to mentally torment the man in the cell next to him until the man rips his own eyeballs from his head….
Crocodiles Make Fine Pets (Eaten Alive, 1976)
Tobe Hooper followed up his classic horror the Texas Chainsaw Massacre by traversing similar ground but in a different way. Set in rural Texas, Judd runs the local Starlight Hotel. It is a remote location, with its own swamp. And in that swamp? Judd…
Camping On Elm Street (Freddy Vs Jason, 2003)
For about a decade Newline tried to come up with a movie bringing Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees together in a single film. There were a lot of false starts. It had been awhile since we saw film franchises cross (Aliens v Predator was…
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