{"id":890,"date":"2004-02-27T09:29:14","date_gmt":"2004-02-27T17:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=890"},"modified":"2026-06-02T16:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:28:12","slug":"five-horror-films-in-five-days-day-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFive Horror Films in Five Days\u201d Day Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--107789437481688513--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/horrorfive_martin.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/6305808090\/ref=ase_asseenontvpro-20\/104-8255077-0790341?v=glance&amp;s=dvd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Martin<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><br \/>\nAnother lesser know gem, &#8220;Martin&#8221; was the film Romero made right before &#8220;Dawn of the Dead.&#8221; This movie works on a different level as it&#8217;s more of a psychological study with horror elements than a straight up horror film. Martin is a confused young man who fancies himself a modern day vampire. Because he views there is no &#8220;magic&#8221; in the world, he drugs his victims and slits their wrists to obtain the blood. The gore and scares are kept to a minimum so the story is more character driven than &#8220;thrill&#8221; driven. Romero&#8217;s early work has always been fascinating as they all use &#8220;horror&#8221; as a way to address more personal and social issues. &#8220;Martin&#8221; deservedly earns it&#8217;s status as a cult film and is worth seeking out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Martin&#8220; Another lesser know gem, &#8220;Martin&#8221; was the film Romero made right before &#8220;Dawn of the Dead.&#8221; This movie works on a different level as it&#8217;s more of a psychological study with horror elements than a straight up horror film. Martin is a confused young man who fancies himself a modern day vampire. Because he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-directors","category-horror","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-em","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10902,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/10902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}