What's in a Name Pt. 100
Have you heard about this new DJ? He mashes up top-20 hits into popular dance music. And he doesn’t even touch the turntables. That’s what his ceramic embalmed hand is for.
Girl Talk to Me
A is for alchemy which changes metals into gold, a process that would’ve helped this mischievous monster of old.
Leprachaun
Dolly Dearest, M3gan, Driller Killer, Chucky. Which of these is not a doll murderer?
Driller Killer
From this eponymous category tagline, Dollface, Pin-Up Girl, and Man in the Mask do a real number on a couple just trying to enjoy their vacation rental after a friend’s wedding.
The Strangers
No sophomore slump for this series, whose second installment is widely considered one of the greatest games ever made. Certainly, the greatest game ever to include Pyramid Head.
Silent Hill
This 1997 film set in the Amazonian jungle features Nic Cage aboard a prisoner transfer flight. When a giant snake takes over the plane, only Nic Cage can save the day in this movie that definitely came out in 1997.
AnaCon-Air
B is for Burkittsville, famous for its woods, this mysterious woman would have you face the corner if she could.
Blair Witch
The Exorcist, Sinister, Amityville Horror. Which of these supernatural horror films is not “based on a true story”?
Sinister
So, the Evil Dead remake is your first feature film, impressive. But can you write and direct? “Sure thing,” said Uruguayan director Fede Alvarez as he turned in this 2016 film about a blind robbery victim.
Don't Breathe
Released a whopping now 10 years ago, this roughly hourlong Guillermo del Toro and Hideo Kojima demo sent shockwaves through gaming communities before dying on the vine.
p.t.
Scarlett Johansson made a real splash in this experimental sci-fi film featuring 95 minutes of offscreen whispering shot on a Sony FX6 about “the human experience” and “human/alien predation in a windowless house”.
Under the Skinamarink
C is for Cthulu, Great Old One of the deep, in which asylum rest its victims whom we keep?
Arkham
Donna, Laurie, Jamie, Judith. Which of these is not a family member* hunted and eventually killed** by Michael Myers?
Donna
Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke put home invasion films back on the map in this 1997 meta-commentary that blurs the lines between fiction and reality with one of the two antagonists constantly breaking the fourth wall.
Funny Games
Traversing the moons of mars through a portal into hell, this heroic space marine fights his way through hordes of demons with his trusty chainsaw, shotgun, and occasional BFG.
Doomguy
In this 6th John Carpenter adaptation of a popular young adult series, Eileen Prince and Tobias Snape set up a physics lab in the basement of a church and inadvertently unleash an ancient, evil force that tries to kill their university headmaster.
Half Blood Prince of Darkness
D is for Deep Space, where none can hear you yell, did this ship ever reach it, or is it stuck in hell?
Event Horizon
The Beyond (1981), Zombi 2 (1979), House by the Cemetery (1981), City of the Living Dead (1980). Which of these is not included in the Lucio Fulci “Gates of Hell” trilogy?
Zombi 2
Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke reestablished his name in the home invasion genre with this 2007 meta-commentary that blurs the lines between fiction and reality with one of the two antagonists constantly breaking the fourth wall.
Funny Games
This 1999 action-RPG-FPS-sci-fi-survival-horror game pits our amnesiac future soldier against a ruthless, malevolent AI Supercomputer SHODAN that is trying to genetically engineer monsters, enslave humanity, pretty standard stuff.
System Shock 2
Royce da 5’9” and Marshall Mathers formed this Detroit cabin-in-the-woods based hip-hop duo after sampling an audiobook of the Necronomicon ex mortis.
Bad Meets Evil Dead
E is for for enemy, a multifaced confider, in this Villeneuve vehicle for Gyllenhaal, it’s metaphorically a spider.
Enemy
Jaws, The Exorcist, Psycho, The Shining, Aliens. Which of these horror films never received an academy award nomination?
The Shining
Frenchman Pascal Laugier has only directed four feature length films. One of them is 2008’s Martyrs. Another is this 2018 effort, in which tragedy befalls two sisters. Sixteen years later, they reunite to confront their past. Or do they?
Incident in a Ghostland
Spiritual sequel to an unfinished demo that itself was spiritual sequel to a legendary franchise, this haunted house walking simulator is way more than meets the family annihilator. Can you help Lucy find her jaw?
Visage