My First Reviews: 2016

These were the first horror reviews I started writing on Facebook, and looking back, I definitely had a lot of room to grow. These first reviews are all pretty short and bereft of detail (I hadn't quite worked out my format yet), but I still think there's some merit in seeing where I started compared to where I'll eventually go. The initial inspiration for this group of movies (and the whole review project in general) was that all of the movies I would watch were readily available on streaming platforms I was subscribed to, but in future years I tried to pick some sort of a theme (and easy streaming was not always a factor).

In 2016 I covered the following movies:

1. Jaws (1975)

2. The VVitch (2015)

3. Pontypool (2008)

4. From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

5. Tremors (1990)

6. The Invitation (2015)

7. Bone Tomahawk (2015)

8. We Are Still Here (2015)

9. The Mist (2007)

10. Housebound (2014)

11. Spring (2014)

12. The Host (2006)

13. The Babadook (2014)

14. Under the Skin (2013)

15. The Wicker Man (2006)

16. Rosemary's Baby (1968)

17. Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010)

18. Tusk (2014)

19. The Hallow (2015)

20. Troll Hunter (2010)

21. The Voices (2014)

22. Let the Right One In (2008)

23. Hush (2016)

24. I Saw the Devil (2010)

25. We Are What We Are (2013)

26. An American Werewolf in London (1981)

27. Honeymoon (2014)

28. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014)

29. Black Death (2010)

30. Creep (2014)

31. A Month of Horror in Retrospect

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