Telekfilm Horror Part Eight: N - O - P: 37 funny, insightful and insane movie reviews of horror films that start with the letters N, O or P

By: Scott Telek

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Bringing an insightful knowledge of film craft and his inimitable sense of humor to the analysis of films that maybe don’t deserve it is what Scott Telek chose to devote years of his life to. Here you will reap the fruits of his misguided enterprise as we cover 37 films in the horror genre, films that begin the letters N, O or P. Hilarious but intelligent, Telek’s writing results in movie reviews that are often more fun to read than watching the films themselves.

In this volume we cover the killer-bunny classic Night of the Lepus, and have two films of the Nightmare on Elm Streetseries, including number two, often considered the gayest horror film ever made. There is the low-budget non-terror of Octaman, modern b-movie treat Orphan, and three very different movies with the title Pulse, including one where household electricity and plumbing team up to terrorize a suburban neighborhood. A fate all too common in these troubled times!

Also included are bizarre and little-known movies such as Point of Terror, in which soap opera histrionics meet sub-softcore intrigue, Pigs, in which a young girl’s murderous impulses are covered up by her doting dad, and Poor Pretty Eddie, in which a hapless music star is entrapped with a psychotic family of rednecks in the deep bayou. Cap it off with The Phantom of the Paradise, Brian de Palma’s over-the-top musical fantasia most often compared with the Rocky Horror Picture Show, but with a searing commentary about the rock music industry. There is fun to be had!

If you like movies being picked apart in minute detail with an emphasis on wonder that such a bizarre thing should ever have been created, Scott Telek’s movie writing is for you. It’s less about whether a movie is “good,” and more about whether you will enjoy watching it, with an eye to point out the ridiculous and sublime. Leave the hot gas of the internet and step into the voice of one man talking about movies from the time when they were the misguided visions of a few warped individuals, not the mass-produced, committee-approved dreck of multinational corporations.