100 Horrors

Time. It stops for no man. It also doesn't stop for quite a few of the films on the first 100 Horrors of 100 Horrors and it leaves them looking dated and shite. Guillermo Del Toro's 1993 debut Cronos, is no exception. Join us as we break our own record for shortest episode ever on this week's 100 Horrors.

We've met some pretty despicable villains throughout the previous 85 episodes of 100 Horrors. Mrs Vorhees invaded a summer camp and butchered people while they were on vacation. Mikey Myers invaded people's homes and murdered them while they celebrated Halloween. Freddy Krueger took it a step further and invaded people's dreams while they tried to sleep. Perhaps then, this is why the kids in Wolf Rilla's 1960 "classic" Village of the Damned did not seem to stand up to the test of truly frightening us as modern audiences. In one scene the antagonists realise that they are frightening an old shopkeeper, so they apologise and promise not to come back anymore. It just doesn't have that edge, you know? Anyway, tune in to this week's episode to hear some (as per usual) controversial scoring.

Not a single film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson has ever scored a "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Here at 100 Horrors we're not entirely sure what that means, but we can sure see why that would be true. Event Horizon blends occultism, science fiction and a topless Sam Neil in an attempt to make something truly disturbing. Do they manage it? You'll have to tune in to episode 85 of 100 Horrors to find out!

Electroshock therapy. Extreme isolation. Full frontal lobotomies. Indefinite imprisonment. These are just some of the horrors that "patients" had to experience during their stay in a mental asylum. Throw into the mix the fact that the ceilings were absolutely jam-packed with asbestos and I would say that your average asylum is about as close to hell on earth as you can get. Brad Anderson's 2001 psychological horror Session 9 explores what might happen to a person forced to experience prolonged exposure to such a place, but is it any good? Let us know in the comments sections folks!!

Jeff Bezos collated his wealth and used it to blast himself into space while people who work for his company continue to suffer poor working conditions and incredible levels of job dissatisfaction. Richard Branson collated his wealth and used it to quietly buy up vast swathes of the NHS pushing the British public ever closer to the reality of either having health insurance or dying from easily curable illnesses. The millionaire in William Castle's House on Haunted Hill spends his money to carry out an elaborate scheme that ultimately sees two people murdered, and yet he seems significantly less sinister than the two aforementioned people. Put together on a shoestring budget, House on Haunted Hill is a bona fide classic starring the incredible Vincent Price. Naturally one of us dislikes it. No prizes for guessing which one of us dislikes the old film with the questionable special effects...

A lot of the films that we've watched can barely get one narrative right, which is why its so nice to watch a film that takes on the daunting task of trying to tell 4 stories all at once. Directed by Michael Dougherty, Trick 'R' Treat was initially panned by the very people that funded it. Since then, it's gone on to become a bit of a cult classic. This is likely going to be our only straight to DVD film of the first 100 films, so you KNOW the scoring is about to get daft. Send your complaints to the usual places...

Space. There's loads of it. And there's stuff in it. In an infinite universe, everything eventually is true. If the universe is infinite then it means some of the stuff in space is the white stuff that falls to Earth from Jupiter and starts making copies of everyone like the stuff in Phillip Kaufman's 1978 remake of the 1950s classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It also means that out there somewhere there's a version of this film that isn't as boring as all Hell. Yeah. It's gonna be one of those episodes...

Home invasions. Scary things if you haven't been trained in the deadly arts by a father who was a survivalist in the Australian outback. Thankfully, the protagonist in Adam Wingard's 2011 smash hit You're Next was trained in the deadly arts by a father who was a survivalist in the Australian outback, so that's cool. Naturally, 2 of us love it and 1 of us hates it. Tune in to find out who's the odd one out this week.

Imagine this. A new virus emerges. You get locked in your home and threatened with severe punishment if you leave. The government - the very ones who locked you in your home - offer absolutely no timeline for your release and do not seem to care about the horrors you face inside. Alright, so it’s not so difficult to imagine that sort of thing given the events of last few years, but I’ll tell you this. Spanish zombies would have made lockdown a LOT more interesting, one way or the other. This week we discuss Rec, a film which frequently tops internet lists of the scariest films you can ever watch, but is there any truth in that? Tune in to find out!

Most horror villains don’t have a shred of remorse for the people they kill. Some don’t have a pulse. The blob takes it up a notch with a villain that doesn’t even have a spine… not one of his own anyway. This week we discuss the spectacular 1988 remake of the campy 1958 original, and naturally one of us really doesn’t appreciate it for what it is. Any guesses who among us can’t see the charm? Tune in to find out!