Category: Feelin Spooky
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Feelin’ Spooky: Hereditary (2018)
Ari Aster’s Hereditary is a truly disturbing, scary, and haunting movie. This was his first movie, and he followed it a year later with Midsommar, which was also great but somehow wackier. You can at least find something darkly funny at the root of Midsommar. Hereditary, on the other hand, ain’t no laughing matter. It’s […]
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Feelin’ Spooky: The Exorcist III (1990)
William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist III is a tough movie to pinpoint, because as a movie it’s good enough, but it’s less successful as a sequel to The Exorcist. If this were just a regular supernatural murder mystery, it would work enough on its own terms. Yet as a sequel, it is just a little […]
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Feelin’ Spooky: A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
Sheesh, talk about beating a dead Freddy. I’ve been revisiting the Nightmare on Elm Street films simply because I have never seen A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, but I’d seen each film before and after it. Honestly, this movie wasn’t worth the effort. The Dream Child is the worst of the […]
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Feelin’ Spooky: A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
Renny Harlin’s A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Master is the fourth movie in the Nightmare on Elm Street series, and like my last entry, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, I find myself admiring this one a bit more with time. It has probably been about 10 years since I last […]
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Feelin’ Spooky: The Omen (1976)
When Richard Donner died earlier this year, it was definitely a bummer. Mind you, the guy was 91, so he lived a good life. He also hadn’t made a movie since 2006’s 16 Blocks, which I haven’t seen since its release but I remember it being pure Donner. He was also on the cusp of […]
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Feelin’ Spooky: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors is the most ambitious but also the campiest of the first three Elm Street films. It had been about 10 years or so since my last viewing and back then I remember thinking it was pretty stupid and goofy. Well… yeah it still pretty much is. The […]
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Feelin’ Spooky: Sinister (2012)
Horror movies have come a long way. It felt like there was a stretch of about 15 years or so where so many PG-13 atrocities came along to draw teenagers in. In recent memory we’ve had movies like The Conjuring, Get Out, Hereditary, and The VVitch that have pretty much changed the game, but for […]
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Feelin’ Spooky: Dreamcatcher (2003)
1/2 By Christian DiMartino So, once upon a time, I owned Lawrence Kasdan’s Dreamcatcher on DVD. The film was included in a Stephen King 4 pack that includes Cat’s Eye, Creepshow, and Delores Claiborne– none of which I’d seen at the time. With the plethora of talent involved in Dreamcatcher though, one would suspect that […]
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Feelin’ Spooky: A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge is the interestingly bad sequel to the Wes Craven classic. Here is a movie that is clumsy and messy, but also so weird and bizarre in terms of its filmmaking choices that pretty much the entire time you ask yourself, “Why did they do that?” It is […]
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Feelin’ Spooky: Halloween (2018)
The Halloween franchise has had a total of I think 11 movies, and the series has been rebooted at least two different times. Have I seen them all? No, but some of the ones I have seen are absolutely awful (cough, Rob Zombie’s Halloween II). So in 2018, director David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, George […]
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