Stephen King sought out to do his take on the Haunting of Hill House, but when The Haunting came out, it became Rose Red instead. The elements of The Haunting were there, but with King’s usual flair. This is another one not based on his works, and ABC banked hard on its success. The plot […]
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Sleepwalkers is a rare Stephen King movie not based on any book or stories, and it is a very wild ride. With big names in the cast as well as cameos from horror legends such as Clive Barker and Joe Dante, this had much potential to go big. The plot is about a pair of
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George Romero turned out a gruesome adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Dark Half. Full of murder and blood, this movie was very dark indeed. The plot is about a writer who created a pseudonym to write under, and when threatened to have his identity exposed, he decides to kill off his other identity,
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So the theme for September will be movies adapted from Stephen King or ones he created on his own. I can’t think of any better way to set the tone than by looking at 1408. The movie was adapted by a short story with the same name and the plot is about a cynical author
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The challenge with a prequel is to set the stage for the original movie while introducing new ideas. Some succeed, some fail, and Orphan: First Kill lands in the middle ground. Though they should have called it First Kills as Esther has many victims this time around. The plot details Esther’s escape from the Saarne
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I never thought I would be writing about a horror movie set in a rest stop bathroom complete with a glory hole, but here we are. Glorious is a goopy bloody Lovecraftian horror and it was indeed glorious. The plot sees a man who is going through a recent breakup, and ends up trapped in
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I do appreciate a fun vampire movie, and Day Shift is exactly that. It definitely gets its inspiration from The Lost Boys that’s for sure, which benefits the film greatly. The plot sees Jamie Foxx trying to be a regular father, but everything is front for his real business as a vampire hunter. He is
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Man, does it feel good to have the Predator back again. Prey is a prequel set 300 years ago and it hits all the right marks of what a Predator movie should be like. Then again the director Dan Trachtenberg did create the best entry in the Cloverfield universe so it only makes sense he
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There are those dreadful horrors that do exactly as they say on the tin. You Are Not My Mother is an example of that, a folk horror that explores the unreal, featuring something we have not seen portrayed in a very long time. The plot is about an isolated teen names Char whose mother suddenly
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