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SCARE-A-THON 2018: DARK TIMES... AND TIME'S UP
Hello, friends and fellow fiends! It’s that time of year again, when shadows grow deeper, sweet tooths grow longer, and autumn leaves rustle just a little louder.... It’s time for SCARE-A-THON 2018. As...
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Fool’s Views (9/24 -9/30)
Howdy, folks! No time to waste! The October Challenge and SCARE-A-THON 2018 are underway, so gotta get these in the books and start Sharing the Scare!!! As always, feel free to leave your two cents...
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ERNEST SCARED STUPID (1991) movie review
Ernest Scared Stupid (1991) d. John Cherry (USA) (91 min) Confession: prior to now, I had never seen an Ernest P. Worrell movie or television skit. I was aware of the character created by Jim Varney...
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MOTHER! (2017) movie review
mother! (2017) d. Darren Aronofsky (USA) (122 min.) Rich with allegory, imagery, and dream logic, Aronofsky’s wildly expressionistic exploration of relationships, boundaries, and grief falls into the...
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SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD (2009) movie review
Survival of the Dead (2009) d. George A. Romero (USA/Canada) (90 min) Reportedly inspired by the Gregory Peck/Burl Ives western The Big Country (1958) and shot in Canada and Nova Scotia, this is a...
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THE HOWLING IV: THE ORIGINAL NIGHTMARE (1988) movie review
The Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988) d. John Hough (UK) (94 min) Joe Dante’s original 1981 werewolf smash was a perfect assemblage of sharp direction, Rob Bottin’s superb special effects,...
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GRAVE ENCOUNTERS 2 (2012) movie review
Grave Encounters 2 (2012) d. John Poliquin (Canada/US) (95 min) Grave Encounters, written and directed by “The Vicious Brothers,” was a fairly standard found-footage flick about a gang of wannabe...
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RAW (2016) movie review
Raw (2016) d. Julia Ducournau (Belgium/France) (99 min) From the land of chocolate, beer, and waffles comes this marvelous urban cannibal feature about an innocent young vegetarian (Garance Marillier)...
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RAMPAGE (2018) movie review
Rampage (2018) d. Brad Peyton (USA) (97 min) It’s not often that I get to say, “It’s exactly what you think it is,” but it’s rarely been as true. Rampage is a big, dumb, fun creature feature starring...
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[REC] (2007) Blu-ray Review
[Rec] (2007) d. Balagueró, Jaume/Plaza, Paco (Spain) (78 min) As the reality-TV onslaught continued into the late 2000s, it was no surprise that the “found footage” trend of horror filmmaking...
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THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932) Blu-ray review
The Old Dark House (1932) d. James Whale (USA) (72 min) Almost forgotten (and for a period of time considered “lost”) in the Universal collection of horrors, this gem of a flick is often overshadowed...
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THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE (1944) Blu-ray review
The Curse of the Cat People (1944) d. Gunther Von Fritsch / Robert Wise (USA) (70 min) Despite identical cast and characters from Cat People, this peculiar sequel (featuring neither cats nor curses) is...
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CLUB DREAD (2004) movie review
Club Dread (2004) d. Jay Chandrasekhar (USA) (104 min) Comedy troupe Broken Lizard (of Super Troopers fame) tries their hand at the slasher genre, with fairly impressive results in both the gore and...
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THE BRIDE (1985) Blu-ray review
The Bride (1985) d. Franc Roddam (UK) (118 min) An inspired extension of James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein, this sumptuous costume drama captures the Gothic look and feel with fine production design...
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GOKE: BODY SNATCHER FROM HELL (1968) movie review
Goke: Body Snatcher from Hell (1968) d. Hajime Sato (Japan) (84 min) In the 1960s, Japan turned out some of the wildest, weirdest genre offerings fans could encounter. Case in point: This futuristic...
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THE MAFU CAGE (1978) movie review
The Mafu Cage (1978) d. Arthur, Karen (USA) (102 min) Raised in Africa on their father’s research outpost, adult siblings Ellen (Lee Grant) and Cissy (Carol Kane) have returned home following his...
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THE CHILDREN (2008) movie review
The Children (2008) d.Tom Shankland (UK) (84 min) During a winter holiday visit between two families, the younger set starts to exhibit cold-like symptoms (coughing, vomiting) as well as erratic...
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GHOST STORIES (2017) Blu-ray review
Ghost Stories (2017) d. Jeremy Dyson / Andy Nyman (UK) (1st viewing) (98 min) Based upon their hit live show, creators Dyson and Nyman so successfully leave the trappings of the stage behind that folks...
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CHILD EATER (2016) DVD review
Child Eater (2016) d. Erlingur Ottar Thorodsson (USA) (82 min) With his vision failing from macular degeneration, petting zoo proprietor Robert Bowery (Jason Martin) starts to lose his younger...
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THE A-LIST OF HORROR FILMS AND MONSTER MOVIES... SO FAR
In 2006, over the course of a few weeks and with the help of fellow fiends online and off, I put together what I felt was a list of essential horror films, a “Horror Primer,” if you will, that I hoped...
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