Mike Catalano

1,615 Articles Published

Favorite Movies: The Dark Knight, Kick-Ass, Halloween, Night of the Creeps, Hoosiers, Sneakers, read more Unbreakable, Batman Begins, What About Bob?, May, Black Christmas ('74), Hot Fuzz, Superbad, Bubba Ho-Tep, Dead Alive

Likes: Movies (duh), writing horror novels, the Mrs., the son, anything horror, read more basketball, the North Carolina Tarheels, sandwiches, walks along the shore, days off, my TV, margaritas, writing while drunk, sushi, and The Office. Oh and my forthcoming 2nd son.

Necessary Evil: Behind the Mask Part 2!

Posted 11 years ago

Welcome back to another round of AITH’s Necessary Evil! I hope you all had a killer Halloween and ran into many classic monsters like the ones involved with our last Monster Squad Sequel Necessary Evil. We are sticking with the...

Necessary Evil: The Monster Squad Sequel!

Posted 11 years ago

Greetings, my horror-loving friends and welcome back to round 3 of our new Necessary Evil column. I had fun messing around with the whole horror-on-a-holiday trope with our last Necessary Evil and hope that you did too. For today’s idea...

Unseen Halloween: Salvage (2006)

Posted 11 years ago

Welcome to a new, Halloween-centric feature, trick 'r treaters! The Arrow in the Head staff (along with some special guests) will be recommending obscure fright flicks throughout the month of October, hopefully enhancing your "31 Days of Horror"! Welcome to...

Necessary Evil: Columbus Day Slasher Movie!

Posted 11 years ago

Welcome back, my horror-loving ladies and gents! We are indeed back with a second helping of our new column of Necessary Evil! It was a blast reading all the comments (both positive and hateful) regarding our last (and first ever) Necessary...

Necessary Evil: The Early Years of Dr. Sam Loomis TV Series

Posted 11 years ago

Hello and welcome to the inaugural entry of a brand new column we are trying out here at AITH! The idea behind it is this: have you, as a horror fan, ever dreamed up a notion for our genre so...

Face-Off: Insidious Chapter 2 Vs. Insidious Chapter 3

Posted 11 years ago

The conversation was quite vibrant in regard to our last start of summertime Face-Off which had Prom Night edging out I Know What You Did Last Summer. Some agreed that Jamie Lee’s old school slasher had the style and scares...

Original Vs. Remake: The Amityville Horror

Posted 11 years ago

No one had a problem with the original Poltergeist taking the crown on our last Original Vs. Remake. I never thought for a second that the remake would win, however I also was a tad surprised at how enjoyable it...

Face-Off: Prom Night Vs. I Know What You Did Last Summer

Posted 11 years ago

We had lots of differing opinions on the dystopian style Face-Off from two weeks ago, which had Doomsday easily besting The Book of Eli. Mr. Eli actually had some supporters with one even accusing me of selecting categories that favored...

Original Vs. Remake: Poltergeist

Posted 11 years ago

Although our last House on Haunted Hill Original Vs. Remake ended in a tie, the readers were not upset as I thought they might be. A great deal actually agreed that both films may be different in terms of tone,...

Face-Off: Doomsday Vs. The Book of Eli

Posted 11 years ago

The masses unloaded with lots of fun feedback with regard to our last Scream-centric Face-Off which had part 3 stabbing part 4 to death. I’m a big fan of the series and it was cool hearing everybody’s passionate thoughts! For...

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