Tag Archive: Horror

Oct 23

Halloween Hangover: Spider-man’s Retirement Suit

Spider-man has had a fairly good year with the release of Amazing Spider-man in cinema, and his crossover with Miles Morales in Ultimate Spider-man. Now news has come that Spider-man.. or at least Peter Parker will be stepping down from the role. We have come to find out that it’s because Peter Parker is checking …

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Oct 11

151 Proof Movies: Beers n Fears Vol 3

Three years running, the longest feature of 151 Proof Movies is our October Special, Beers and Fears. Now, we mentioned last week that we wouldn’t do all encompassing rules for every movie we watch this mont, but that didn’t mean we weren’t going to post another lovely set of rules for you to play by! …

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Oct 28

Nerds on the Rocks 67: Craven-Cast

Halloween is just around the corner, and our esteemed panel of slasher victims take to the mic to discuss the King of Scream himself, Wes Craven. Anthony, Dylan and Earl are joined this week by Andrenn (from CBR) as we discuss Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream and the rest of Craven’s catalog of horror flicks. …

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Oct 21

151 Proof Movies: House of the Dead

We are in the most festive of times here on Nerds on the Rocks, while we haven’t really covered many Halloween-related stuff officially, we have been getting wasted on some pretty bad horror films. For the most part, they have all used the rules established in Beers n Fears Vol 1,2 and 3. However for …

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Oct 21

Review Shooter: Paranormal Activity 3

Starring: Chloe Csengery, Jessica Tyler Brown and Christopher Nicholas Smith Directed by: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman Written by: Christopher B. Landon, Oren Peli  The Paranormal Activity series had initially set itself apart from other horror movies by creating a realistic ‘home-movie’ feel such as that seen in “The Blair Witch Project”, and relying on clever usage of sound and atmosphere to generate tension …

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Oct 29

Nerds on the Rocks 18: BOO-Edition

The biggest weekend of the year is here! The time when nerds can be nerds openly and people won’t slander them (sadly even comic con is getting a bad rep these days). We kick the weekend off in style with a very horrific Nerds on the Rocks. We discuss some of our favorite horror movies. …

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Oct 22

Horror Hangover: Horror Franchise Face-Off

There are really two schools of horror movie icons. There were the original monster movies, which we kind of covered before but would deal with your Draculas, Wolfmen, Frankstein’s monsters and mummies. Then there was the resurgence in the late 70s/early 80s of what became known as the slasher films. And out of that emerged …

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Oct 04

151 Proof Movies: Beers n Fears Edition

Welcome one and all to another edition of 151 Proof Movies, where we make movies better through the power of love, respect and a whole lot of alcohol. In honor of it being October, we have decided to roll the dice with a month long 151 Proof feature, Beers n Fears, where we set up …

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Oct 01

Nostalgia with a Twist: Goosebumps

Welcome back one and all, its been a while since we last did a Nostalgia with a Twist, and even then we were in the middle of our Disney Afternoon week/month/year marathon. I apologize a lot of little things happen which causes big… you don’t need excuses. All you need to know is I try …

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