Horror Bulletin Monthly June 2022: Horror Bulletin Monthly Issues, #9

By Brian Schell

Contents:

 

The NINTH issue of the Horror Guys Monthly review digest, Horror Bulletin, includes reviews of thirty-three (or thirty-nine, depending on how you count Midnight Mass) full-length films and horror shorts. 

 

Each of the films contains a complete synopsis of the film, including spoilers (so beware!), as well as our commentary on the quality of the story and how well it holds up for viewers today. 

 

The many short films this month all include links to watch them on YouTube for free. 

Movie Reviews

 

1957 Daughter of Dr. Jekyll
1959 The Wasp Woman
1963 The Demon
1972 Psychomania
1972 The Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters
1974 From Beyond the Grave
1983 Cujo
1991 Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge
1991 Subspecies
2002 Bubba Ho-Tep
2010 The Crazies
2013 Battledogs
2014 The Babadook
2021 Midnight Mass (Miniseries)
        Chapter 1 Genesis
        Chapter 2 Psalms
        Chapter 3 Proverbs
        Chapter 4 Lamentations
        Chapter 5 Gospel
        Chapter 6 Acts of the Apostles
        Chapter 7 Revelations
2021 The Found Footage Phenomenon
2021 The Sadness
2022 Firestarter
2022 The Righteous
2022 The Spine of Night

 

Short Film Reviews

 

2015 Short Film: House of Straw
2021 Short Film: Happy Birthday
2021 Short Film: Little Brother
2021 Short Film: The Thing That Ate the Birds
2022 Short Film: Bruche
2022 Short Film: Dead Teenager Seance
2022 Short Film: Emptied
2022 Short Film: Mum's Sweater
2022 Short Film: Posies
2022 Short Film: Pursuit of a Jigsaw
2022 Short Film: Rancour
2022 Short Film: Run
2022 Short Film: The Home
2022 Short Film: The Trunk

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brian Schell
• Release date: May 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201171131

Brian Schell

Brian Schell is a College English Instructor who has an extensive background in Buddhism and other world religions. After spending time in Japan, he returned to America where he created the immensely popular website, Daily Buddhism. For the next several years, Schell wrote extensively on applying Buddhism to real-world topics such as War, Drugs, Tattoos, Sex, Relationships, Pet Food and yes, even Horror Movies. Twitter: @BrianSchell Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/Brian.Schell Web: http://BrianSchell.com

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Horror Bulletin Monthly June 2022

HORROR BULLETIN MONTHLY JUNE 2022

BRIAN SCHELL

HorrorGuys.com

Copyright © 2022 by Brian Schell

All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

ISBN: 9798832533025

CONTENTS

Introduction

I. Movie Reviews

1957 Daughter of Dr. Jekyll

1959 The Wasp Woman

1963 The Demon

1972 Psychomania

1972 The Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters

1974 From Beyond the Grave

1983 Cujo

1991 Puppet Master III: Toulon’s Revenge

1991 Subspecies

2002 Bubba Ho-Tep

2010 The Crazies

2013 Battledogs

2014 The Babadook

2021 Midnight Mass

2021 The Found Footage Phenomenon

2021 The Sadness

2022 Firestarter

2022 The Righteous

2022 The Spine of Night

II. Short Film Reviews

2015 Short Film: House of Straw

2021 Short Film: Happy Birthday

2021 Short Film: Little Brother

2021 Short Film: The Thing That Ate the Birds

2022 Short Film: Bruche

2022 Short Film: Dead Teenager Seance

2022 Short Film: Emptied

2022 Short Film: Mum’s Sweater

2022 Short Film: Posies

2022 Short Film: Pursuit of a Jigsaw

2022 Short Film: Rancour

2022 Short Film: Run

2022 Short Film: The Home

2022 Short Film: The Trunk

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Also by Brian Schell

INTRODUCTION

This month, we did a couple of event weeks on top of our regular format. First, we watched the seven-part miniseries, Midnight Mass, which we both loved a lot, and then we had our first Short Film Festival, where we watched a dozen short films for a week. In between, we had our usual eclectic mix of old and new horror films, from the ridiculous The Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters, to the ultra-violent The Sadness.

HIGHLIGHTS

Kevin’s top choices this month were Midnight Mass and The Righteous with close followups being The Crazies and Bubba Ho-Tep. He didn’t hate anything this month, so that’s a win for him!

Brian’s top choices were also Midnight Mass and The Sadness. He despises Psychomania and The Babadook to the core of his inner, twisted being. Of the many shorts we watched this week, he liked Little Brother the most, with Dead Teenager Seance coming in a close second.

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And now… Here. We. Go!

Part One

MOVIE REVIEWS

1957 DAUGHTER OF DR. JEKYLL

Directed by Edgar G, Ulmer

Written by Jack Pollexfen

Stars John Agar, Gloria Talbott, Arthur Shields

Run Time: 1 Hour, 11 Minutes

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4RVwKNmaX0

SYNOPSIS

The narrator explains about what happened to Dr. Jekyll and how he died at the end. We’ll never see an evil like that again, he states confidently. Mr. Hyde cackles at the screen, Are you sure? Credits roll.

Janet arrives at the huge old house of her guardian. Mrs. Merchant the housekeeper invites her in. Janet has brought along George Hastings with her. Jacob is the creepy servant that all old castles seem to have around.

Maggie the maid helps Janet unpack but gets worried when the moon starts to rise. Maggie walks home to the village every night; no one in the village would dare sleep in that house. Maggie ends up leaving later than she would have liked and walks home in the dark, terrified.

Mrs. Merchant explains about the backward villagers and local nonsense. Dr. Lomas, Janet’s guardian, finally comes home and meets George. He’s her fiancé, and she’s about to turn 21 in a few days. They explain to Dr. Lomas that they don’t want his money. Lomas laughs because he’s dead broke. All the land and the estate are Janet’s and he’s just been watching over things until she comes of age. She’s wealthy and didn’t even know it. They’re all pretty happy with the way things worked out.

Not only did she inherit the house and land, but there’s more that Lomas doesn’t want to talk about until morning. They start exploring the house and soon find a secret room containing a dusty old laboratory. Lomas finds them there and explains that it all belonged to Janet’s father— Dr. Jekyll.

Janet breaks off the engagement with George. She can’t marry him now. The three go down to the family tomb and creepy old Jacob follows them. Lomas explains that he and Jekyll went to school together until Jekyll became obsessed with his weird experiments. The locals still believe that Dr. Jekyll prowls the woods as a werewolf when the moon rises. Janet fears that Jekyll’s madness is hereditary, but Lomas can’t say one way or the other. George doesn’t care, he just wants Janet.

Dr. Lomas hypnotizes Janet to calm her down before bed time. Maggie helps get Janet into bed, but by the time they’re done, the moon rises. That’s when the monster Jekyll rises from his tomb, Maggie proclaims.

Janet dreams of following Maggie through the woods and killing her. When she wakes up, she finds dirt on her nightgown and mud on her shoes. Uh-oh.

Maggie doesn’t come to work the next morning. Jacob comes in carrying her body. What kind of animal could make marks like that? Jacob says it’s the werewolf. Jacob complains to Mrs. Merchant about the monster, and he’s been talking to the lads in the pub, They knew how to take care of the father, and they’re ready to take care of the daughter.

That night, Janet insists that Lomas lock her into the bedroom. Janet dreams of a young couple making out in the woods. Janet follows the girl home and attacks her. Once again, Janet wakes up screaming and bloody. George and Lomas see the evidence this time, but they still don’t think she’s a killer. Jacob, on the other hand, is convinced, and Mrs. Merchant quits on the spot.

Janet wants to be killed with a stake through the heart and buried next to her father. Please kill me! Please! she begs George, who isn’t on board for any of this nonsense.

Dr. Lomas talks the constable out of arresting Janet, but the coroner is going to call Janet as a witness at the inquest, so they can’t just leave town.

George finds Janet outside the tomb., while Jacob whittles away on a stake just a few feet away. George takes Janet home while Lomas throws Jacob off their land.

Tonight, Dr. Lomas agrees to sit up and literally keep watch over Janet to make sure nothing happens. The full moon comes out, and Dr. Lomas examines Janet’s eyes. Janet once again dreams of murder. This time, she gets up and Lomas lets her out of the bedroom. George is still awake and follows them upstairs. They go into Jekyll’s old lab and Lomas hypnotizes Janet. He orders her to dream of being a werewolf and to go outside and murder someone then kill herself.

Then… Dr. Lomas turns into an actual werewolf and attacks George. Lomas then runs off into the woods. He watches through the window as a girl gets dressed, and he likes that. He breaks in and kills her, but some of the villagers overhear the screams and chase