Nolte: Your Film School Assignment, One Movie Per Day – Halloween Week
Happy Halloween. Here are your assignments for the week. Links will take you to where each title can be streamed, so there are no excuses to miss one.
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Nolte: Your Film School Assignment, One Movie Per Day – Week Seven
It’s 24/7 horror movies at the Nolte household this week, so this week’s assignment will reflect that because this is not really a column about widening your movie knowledge.
Nolte: Your Film School Assignment, One Movie Per Day – Week Five
Here are your assignments for next week. The links will take you to where you can stream each title.
‘Together’ Pulled from Chinese Theaters After AI Used to Make a Gay Wedding a Heterosexual One
Neon has pulled its body horror film “Together” from theaters in China after a local distributor censored a same-sex wedding scene.
The Best Overlooked Horror Movies of the 1990s
This seemed like a good time to look back at the best of the most overlooked horror movies released during the 1990s.
‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ (2025) Review: Weak Cast, Dumb Script, Moral Cop-out
Is there another franchise with three sequels and a streaming series where everything sucked but the first entry, which is only fairly decent? Give it up already.
John Nolte: The 5 Greatest Horror Movie Remakes of All Time
We’re all tired of remakes and reboots and reimaginings… Granted, they are not all bad. Okay, most of them are. In the world of horror, lousy remakes abound, but here are five exceptions.
‘The Monkey’ (2025) Review: Creative Kills Surround Dull Story
Osgood Perkins is a very good director. With The Monkey, he mostly hits what he aims for, which is one grim chuckle after another.
The Many Delights and Unspeakable Horrors of ‘Audition’ (1999)
Audition (1999) is one of those classic, must-see horror movies I’d heard about and finally decided (after only a quarter-century) to pull the trigger on.
Hollywood Horror Director John Carpenter Compares Trump to Brainwashing Aliens from ‘They Live’
Hollywood horror maestro John Carpenter believes former President Donald Trump is like one of the mind-control alien creatures in his 1988 movie “They Live.”
Report: Venezuela Forcing Dissidents to Film Humiliating Apology Videos Cut with Horror Movie Clips
The socialist regime of Venezuela launched a brutal campaign against dissidents this weekend, branding their homes to scare them out of continuing to protest and forcing detained individuals to issue heavily edited “apologies” on social media spliced with media from Hollywood horror movies.
‘The Exorcist’ Franchise Shifting Gears After Last Year’s ‘Believer’ Flopped
“The Exorcist” franchise will be shifting gears by going in a bold, new direction after last year’s sequel-reboot flopped with both critics and audiences alike.
Netanyahu to Hamas Terrorists: ‘Don’t Die for Sinwar. Surrender — Now’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a message to Hamas terrorists who are still fighting the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), hiding underground, or holding Israeli hostages: surrender — now.
Film Critic Blasts ‘Exorcist: Believer’ for ‘Anti-Abortion’ Plotline, Being ‘Hyper-Conservative’
Indiewire film critic David Ehrlich has bizarrely blasted “The Exorcist: Believer” for what he is calling its “anti-abortion messaging.”
Nolte: The 9 Greatest Horror-Road Movies Ever Made
Road horror takes place on the road, with our protagonists always on the move. Here are nine of my favorite movies that meet that criterion.
Nolte: Halloween with Val Lewton’s 9 Classic Horror Films
RKO left Val Lewton alone to make his movies, and the results saved the studio from bankruptcy and resulted in a run of timeless films that still entertain, provoke, and chill.
Horror Movie ‘They/Them’ Director: ‘Shows How Heroic and How Wonderful Queer People Are’
Any hope that the new horror movie “They/Them” will portray the pronoun crowd as the monsters they are will be immediately dashed upon reading recent interviews promoting the Blumhouse production. In fact, the movie appears to do the exact opposite of what the title suggests, showering generation woke with even more adoration.
Disney-Owned Studio to Release Cannibal Horror Movie ‘Fresh’ About Doctor Who Dismembers Women
A division of the Walt Disney Co. is set to release a gory cannibal movie about a doctor that dismembers and eats women. Searchlight Pictures — formerly Fox Searchlight — will distribute the indie horror movie “Fresh” through the Disney-owned Hulu, starting March 4.
Nolte: The 7 Greatest Horror Movie Remakes of All Time
The list of terrible remakes is endless, so let’s focus on the positive, on the seven greatest horror remakes of all time…
Review: ‘Doctor Sleep’ Gives King the Last Word on Kubrick
“Doctor Sleep” is visually faithful to Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece “The Shining,” but it’s more like a course correction than a sequel, bringing the saga back in like with Stephen King’s original vision.
‘Pet Sematary’ (2019) Review: Empty Calories Filled with Jump Scares
There’s fleeting suspense, bumps in the night. What’s missing, though, is any sense of an emotional undercurrent, the thing that gave the original a legitimate sense of dread and heartbreak.
