Flash Frames

Still from Heart Eyes I’m sort of stunned by the response to this one. I’m not entirely sure where this came from, but Heart Eyes has really become the big discussion of January/February horror movies. Granted, there haven't been a lot of movies or shows (or really anything) that’s come out this year so far, but hey, we’ve got something to talk about now. Why I think this is happening is because of Eli Roth, who’s only really made one good movie, and that’s Thanksgiving . It’s an absolutely ridiculous movie, framing a slasher/murder mystery around the Thanksgiving/Black Friday holiday, but unlike Roth’s other horror movies, it leans much more into how silly the premise of a serial killer dressing up like a pilgrim and cooking one of his victims like a turkey is. That’s silly, and it knows it. Heart Eyes doesn’t lean into how goofy this idea is, which follows the “Heart Eyes Killer,” a methodical serial killer that’s been killing couples on Valentine’s Day in different cities for ...

Olivia Hussey in Black Christmas Figured that since today is Christmas Day, I might as well talk about a Christmas movie I recently watched for the first time. Not only that, it’s a double whammy of a Christmas movie and a horror movie. If you’re a big enough fan of both holidays, you could get two mandatory viewings out of it. Black Christmas , which follows a group of sorority sisters trying to survive a deranged serial killer during the holidays, has been on my watchlist for a while now. The thing I had always heard was that this was widely considered to be the first slasher movie, especially when John Carpenter cited this movie as the inspiration for his now-classic Halloween . It may be up to you if Black Christmas is a better movie than Halloween , but Black Christmas is much more terrifying. Everything about this is pitch perfect, especially the editing. The editing being this much of a highlight is important, especially when it comes to a scene having to do with cutting into ...