The Great Horror Hiatus of 2018

So, remembering back to when I started doing these reviews, I feel like every year after the first I threatened to stop doing it. (It's a LOT of work, not just setting aside 1.5 hours out of the 24 we all get to sit down and watch a movie EVERY DAY, but also writing a review for each one, which can itself take an additional hour or more.) But I felt like every time I expressed an interest in not doing it that year, everyone within earshot would tell me that they really enjoyed reading my reviews so I should keep going. So I'm incredibly surprised to see that I don't seem to have a single review written for 2018, which I can only take to mean I just didn't do it that year.

But the important thing is that I picked it back up in 2019, and boy did I come back full-force! While I hadn't yet started choosing movies along a particular theme (I'm pretty sure these were just movies that had been recommended to me) my reviews appear to be WAY more fleshed-out from this period onward, which really makes me wonder why people liked them at the beginning but whatever. People are weird.

Anyway, I really hope you enjoy my reviews from this point! For 2019 I'll be covering the following films: 

1. The Ritual (2017)

2. Head Count (2018)

3. Nightlight (2015)

4. The Dark Tapes (2016)

5. Deliver Us from Evil (2014)

6. Dolls (1986)

7. Grave Encounters (2011)

8. The Exorcist (1973)

9. The Den (2013)

10. Brightburn (2019)

11. Ghost Stories (2017)

12. The Emerging Past Director's Cut (2017)

13. The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)

14. Before I Wake (2016)

15. The Other Side of the Door (2016)

16. Haunt (2019)

17. The Forest (2016)

18. Dead Shack (2017)

19. The Houses October Built (2014)

20. Pumpkinhead (1988)

21. Late Phases/Night of the Wolf (2014)

22. Eli (2019)

23. The Possession of Michael King (2014)

24. Basket Case (1982)

25. The Hollow Child (2017)

26. The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015)

27. The Town that Dreaded Sundown (both 1978 and 2014)

28. It Chapter Two (2019)

29. The Curse of La Llorona (2019)

30. Hell House LLC (2015)

31. The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)

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