Zombie movies are a hard sell nowadays; the fatigue of the walking dead is unavoidable. In order to convince an audience to watch a new zombie film, you need to present something original to make it worthwhile. “Train to Busan” & “One Cut of the Dead” are two great examples that show how much more […]
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Beware the children! That is the tagline of the John Carpenter 1995 remake of Village of the Damned, and it is very appropriate. Beware the children indeed. I always say to my friends that horror movies are responsible for the idea of not having children, and this one is a prime example as to why.
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During a time when slashers were becoming unoriginal and exhaustive, leave it to the traditional working team of Scott Spiegel & Sam Raimi to be the ones to produce one of the more original entries in the genre. Full of the traditional humor and experimental camera angles we’ve come to love from Raimi himself, this
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You knew in the hands of Sam Raimi, we would get our first proper horror treatment of a Marvel movie. They needed someone who could handle the dark themes within, and Raimi showed he was up to the task. This is his first time back in the Marvel realm since the Spider-Man trilogy, and I’m
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I thought this was appropriate to discuss in relation to current events as the remake of The Stepford Wives is a depiction of gender inequality at its most extreme. Much of the movie takes liberty and has a comedic approach to the issues at hand, but deep down, the message is clear. The plot sees
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Aylmer is your friendly, neighborhood parasite who has hunted for hosts since the beginning of time. He has a habit of drinking your spinal fluid, causing intense psychedelic hallucinations, and has a hunger for brains. No longer happy with his current hosts, Aylmer decides to travel a ways and find a new one. ‘Brain Damage’
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Remember from school when you thought math was scary? Ever wonder if they made a horror movie about it? Look no further with Shudder’s The Cellar. The plot is about a family who moves into a new home, and subsequently, their daughter disappears in the cellar. The mother must go to hell and back to
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What we have here is a very early piece of French cinema which can really only be referred to as a ‘fever dream.’ It contains a logically incoherent storyline full of hallucinatory and metaphoric imagery, all set over the sound of classical swing piano. It is a film created by two well renown artists: Luis
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Something different as we take a look at a voyeuristic horror from director Ti West. House of the Devil. It uses sweeping cameras with great attention to detail as a way to slowly get under our skin to build us up for the horrors to come. The film is about a woman who agrees to
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