Tag: horror
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Review: X
Now, this is what I’m talkin’ about. Ti West’s X is the kind of movie I want to see. Mind you, there is stuff in it so gross that, well, I could’ve done without seeing it. Yet the movie is a deranged hoot from start to finish that reminds me of why going to the…
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Sidney Prescott, girl… Flee the Country
By Christian DiMartino The original Scream was released 25 years ago last month, and since then has spawned three sequels, with a fourth one, the lazily titled Scream, coming this Friday. The franchise is a rather satirical commentary on horror movies and franchises and what not, but the series does follow a set storyline. Said…
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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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Review: Halloween Kills
David Gordon Green’s 2018 rebootquel/ re-do/ sequel thingy Halloween hit the reset button on the series, thus erasing every movie that came after the John Carpenter original (not all of those movies were bad, FYI, but there were certainly some rotten eggs). The movie was good fun and a huge hit, so naturally a sequel…
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Feelin’ Spooky: Halloween (1978)
John Carpenter’s Halloween is what you expect and ask for from a slasher movie. It is also, more than likely, the best of the bunch. Halloween is a treasure, and a classic; a film that I have seen a zillion times and always manage to find myself getting caught up in. Like, really caught up…
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Feelin’ Spooky: Exorcist II: The Heretic
Contrary to my review of A Nightmare on Elm Street yesterday, I had actually never seen Exorcist II: The Heretic until a few days ago. Obviously I’ve seen William Freidkin’s provocative, Best Picture nominated masterpiece The Exorcist, and I actually watched it again last Halloween. My assumption with the sequels though is that, since Freidkin…
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Feelin’ Spooky: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
I am 24 years old, approaching 25. I have been watching Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street since I was about 8 years old. If that sounds a tad alarming, perhaps it should be, but also, I think I’ve turned out somewhat okay. In any regard, I have been watching this movie for roughly…
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Review: Spiral
Remember James Wan’s first Saw movie? Critics pretty much wrote it off as another torture porn movie, but honestly for what it is, it’s pretty good. I think I first saw it when I was about 10 (again, I was a strange child) and I was caught up in the twists and what not. Since…
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Review: 31
By Christian DiMartino I’ve just this second finished watching Rob Zombie’s latest film, 31, and I really just have one question: why are we still letting him make movies? I believe this one was actually funded by a kickstarter campaign, which is kind of hilarious. So there, I answered my question: we the people are paying…
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Review: Blair Witch
By Christian DiMartino “Give up this dream! You’re never gonna make it!” – Edith Cox, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story That line was lingering in the mind pretty much throughout Blair Witch, yet another long-delayed sequel that none of us were clamoring for.We know that, with this kind of film, if you’re in it, you’re probably…
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