Holiday Horror movies!

Aaaah, vacation...

Good food, family and friends, new places and relaxation.

Or kidnapping, ritual sacrifice, drowning, becoming prey, genocidal murder, desperation and a fierce fight for life.

Here's a small list of tips for vacation horror films! 🙂

An American werewolf in London (1981)

Art of the devil 2 (2005)

Bodycount (1987)

Camp slaughter aka camp Daze (2005)

Dagon (2001)

Dark Woods aka villmark (2003)

Deliverance (1972)

Detour aka Snarveien (2009)

Don't look now (1973)

Eden Lake (2008)

Evil Dead 2: dead by dawn (1987)

Flight of the living dead aka Outbreak on a plane (2007)

Friday the 13th (2009)

Funny Games (1997)

Haunted forest aka Satinka (2007)

Horror Express (1973)

Long weekend (1978)

Long weekend remake (2008)

Modus Anomali (2012)

Open Water (2003)

Old (2021)

Open Water 2: adrift (2006)

Primal (2010)

Retreat (2011)

The Burning (1981)

The Descent (2005)

The Evil Dead (1983)

The hills have eyes (1977)

The hills have eyes remake (2006)

The perfect marriage (2010)

The Reef (2011)

The ruins (2008)

Timber Falls (2007)

Wolf Creek (2005)

Wrong turn (2003)

Others are checking out:

Uplifting horror with merry violence!

Things rarely go well for people in the movies we like. Things mostly go straight to the black bowels of Hell. (If you know, you know...) So what do you do when you're really into horror movies on the more cheerful side of the spectrum? A little bit of merry violence? You head over to the Horror Rookie Academy and ask the rookies for movie tips! Below you'll find tips that came in response to the following questions: Hey! Does anyone have any tips for uplifting horror? I'd love to have a good dose of happy violence also. Tittel År IMDb Evil Dead 2 1987 7,7 Army of Darkness 1992 7,4 Bubba Ho Tep 2002 6,9 Brain Damage 1988 6,5 Evil Ed 1995 5,5 Return of the living Dead 1985 7,3 Tucker and Dale vs Evil 2010 7,5 The Cottage 2008 6,1 Sightseers 2012 6,5 Severance 2006 6,4 Bad Boy bubby 1993 7,3 Rubber 2010 5,7 Space Station 76 2014 4,9 Motivational Growth 2013 5,7 Teeth 2007 5,4 The Crazies 2010 6,5 Slither 2006 6,5 Deadstream 2022 6,4 Scouts guide to the Zombie apocalypse 20...

32 Liminal horror movies

Let's begin with the beginning: what in the world is "liminal" - and "liminal horror"? The word liminal itself is defined quite differently by different sources, but the essence is as follows: - a state/position at or on both sides of a threshold/border - a transition between states or the initial phase of a process of change As far as I understand, Liminal horror points to both this and at the same time to what is called liminal spaces , which are: - areas and architecture that lead you from something to something else, and which are not intended as anything more/other. Corridors, underpasses, aqueducts, airports, queues, waiting rooms... 'Non - destinational places', as my husband called it when I tried to explain it. Apt term! 😍 - Emotionally, liminal spaces are, for example, grief and growing up - Psychologically and socially, it's is 'nothing' between different feelings or states: the state of post partum and detox are two examp...

Iä! Iä! Lovecraftian horrors

H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an American author best known for his influential contributions to the genre of "weird fiction," especially cosmic horror. His work is characterized by a unique blend of science fiction, horror, and the supernatural, often exploring themes such as forbidden knowledge, humanity's insignificance in the universe, and the fragility of reason. Lovecraft created a mythos—a loosely connected universe populated by ancient, powerful beings such as Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, and Azathoth. This "Cthulhu mythos" became central to his legacy, and was later expanded upon by other writers. So, to the eternal question: what does this almost etherial term "Lovecraftian" actually mean? I think Wikipedia says it well: "Lovecraftian horror, also called cosmic horror or eldritch horror, is a subgenre of horror, fantasy, and weird fiction that emphasizes the terror of the unknown and incomprehensible more than gore or other shock elements....

15 years of Academy headers!

A good header is a great thing ! Since 2011, the Horror Rookie Academy has focused quite a bit on page headers. The header constitutes the graphic profile of the Academy. It is what first meets the eye, what gives the first impression, and it sets the tone. Design- wise, we have kept the headers simple and symmetric -and a bit classy. We present to you: 15 years of Academy headers! (Laget av skrekkrutt Sørbø.) (Artwork: Kim Holm)

Derfor bør ingen noensinne bade i havet

Det lusker mangt under overflaten! Enten man ferdes på havet, rusler elvelangs eller tar en dukkert i de glitrende innsjøer skal man huske at knivskarpe tenner og hungrige mager kan lure juuuuust below the surface. Skrekkruttskolen presenterer her firogfemti stalltips innen skrekk og gru fra dypet! Nr Tittel År IMDb 1 Jaws 75 8,1 2 The Abyss 89 7,6 3 The Host 6 7 4 Ocean Of Fear 7 7 5 The River 12 6,8 6 The Deep 12 6,7 7 Rogue 7 6,3 8 Dagon 1 6,3 9 Below 2 6,2 10 The Deep 77 6,1 11 Deep rising 98 6 12 Sphere 98 6 13 Alligator 80 5,9 14 Piranha 78 5,9 15 The Reef 10 5,8 16 Jaws 2 78 5,7 17 Deep Blue Sea 99 5,7 18 Leviathan 89 5,7 19 Open Water 3 5,7 20 Lake Placid 99 5,6 21 The Bay 12 5,6 22 Piranha 10 5,6 23 12 days of terror 5 5,5 24 Ghost Ship 2 5,4 25 Open water 2: adrift 6 5 26 Reykjavik Whale watching massacre 9 4,9 27 Frankenfish 4 4,8 28 The last Shark 81 4,6 29 Anaconda 97 4,5 30 Troglodyte 8 4,3 31 Eye of the beast 7 4,2 32 R...

Dental Horror!

Teeth are hard, calcified structures in the mouth that are essential for breaking down food through chewing, forming words for speech, and maintaining overall oral health. They are also dreadful sources of pain, an object for torture and things that can get smashed out of your skull in a bloody instant. One starry friday night, a night of icy gusts of wind and of gerenal unrest in the populus, the Rookies at the Horror Rookie Academy decided to dive into the topic of dental horror: the portrayal of teeth in horror films. We decided to limit the topic to mainly human teeth, but since the sphere of horror is a transcendant and messy one, we of course welcomed other types of teeth in horror as well. Tusks, for example. Or simply messed up tooth-related stuff. The films listed below either centers around the topic of teeth or has predominant scenes portraying teeth in them. It is a creepy collection of films, this. Films that make your molars ice and throb just by th...

The Rookies love Stephen King!

The calendar reads september 21st, and it's Stephen King's birthday! Just hearing or seing his name invokes strong feelings in the minds of those prone to horror. And those prone to books, of course. The bibliophiles that walk among us. The rookies, many of them confessing to both the love of books and of horror, are no exception: in fact, they love Stephen King so much that they dedicated an entire week to exploring his books and the films originating from them! One can say a lot about the film adaptions of Stephen King. Many of these film adaptations were made in the nineties, a time when... well, let's say the film industry was still finding its way into the "new" world. Some of these are brilliant, others are... well, effects, glitter and crap in a blissful mix. Several of these adaptations reside on the lower half of the IDMb scale. However, they all have in common this... thing about them, then. This King thing. A coming of age, cosy, creepy and often sli...

Masks in horror!

Masks are widely seen in horror films. But of course. Hidden identities and a visage without any visible emotions are the stuff nightmares are made of. Or masks made of the skin of a human head... Eeew! Leatherface, Jason Vorhees, Ghostface and Michael Myers were pioneers in the mask game. Those iconic roles have since been followed by a wide array of masked killers in horror. Increasingly cheezy, some might feel -myserlf being among them. The home invasion subgenre has in particular taken masks to its heart. The rookies at The Horror Rookie Academy recently endulged themselves in a Mask Saturday, shining a powerful mental light on masks in horror. Below is the list of 28 movie recommendations that followed. Enjoy! Nr Title Year IMDb 1 Scream 1996 7,4 2 StageFright 1987 6,6 3 Christmas Cruelty 2013 4,4 4 The Collector 2009 6,3 5 My Bloody Valentine 1981 6,3 6 My Bloody Valentine 2009 5,4 7 Onibaba 1964 7,8 8 The Orphanage 2007 7,4 9 Alice, Sweet Alice 1976 ...

Feinschmecker giallo films!

It's really hard not to like giallo when you like horror movies. If you ask me. It has the seventies feel to it, it has slashing, practical effects, razors and negligees, black gloves and mansions. ...and the names of these movie, my goodness. "Aunt Martha does dreadful things", for example. 😍 One of our rookies is a regular cornucopia of knowledge of giallo, and he dug into his mind looking for the more obscure giallo movies. Enjoy! ✌ Murder Obsession (Riccardo Freda, 1980; Italian: Follia omicida) aka Fear, aka The Wailing, aka The Murder Syndrome The Secret of Seagull Island (Nestore Ungaro, 1981; Italian: L'isola del gabbiano) Madhouse (Ovidio Assonitis, 1981) aka There Was a Little Girl Tenebrae (Dario Argento, 1982) aka Unsane The Scorpion with Two Tails (Sergio Martino, 1982; Italian: Assassinio al cimitero etrusco / Murder in the Etruscan Cemetery) A Blade in the Dark (Lamberto Bava, 1982; Italian: La casa con la scala nel buio / The House with the Dar...

88 Monster Movies!

Monsters, people. Monsters! 😍 Huge hungry monsters, aquatic and underground dwelling slimy monsters, monsters that grow inside you, monsters looking to prey on you... ...and monsters of the slightly softer kind. Here are 88 tips for awesome monster movies sorted by IMDb score. In our opinion, the IMDb scale is just as good in the bottom as it is in he top, especially when it comes to monster movies! Looking for more -and more current monster films? Click here . 😱 1 Aliens 1986 8,5 2 Alien 1979 8,5 3 Jaws 1975 8,2 4 The Thing 1982 8,2 5 Frankenstein 1931 8 6 Predator 1987 7,9 7 Prometheus 2012 7,5 8 The Fly 1986 7,5 9 Them 1954 7,3 10 Godzilla 1954 7,3 11 The Mist 2007 7,3 12 The Descent 2005 7,3 13 Starship troopers 1997 7,2 14 Cloverfield 2008 7,2 15 Gremlins 1984 7,2 16 the beast w/ a bill. backs 2008 7,2 17 The Golem 1920 7,2 18 Pitch black 2000 7,1 19 Tremors 1990 7,1 20 The Host 2006 7,1 21 The Lost World 1925 7 22 The troll hunter 2010 7 23 The Hidden 1987 6,9 24 Hog...

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