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Childhood Movies: ‘Child’s Play’
The basement was where my older brother went to watch movies. When the door was closed, it meant don’t go downstairs. EVER. Now I had my fair share of entertainment upstairs, where my room was, but just knowing that my presence was forbidden made me want to go downstairs even more. After countless of days […] More
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5 Horror Films Too Disturbing To Watch Again
** Spoilers ahead ** I am not a horror film fan. I appreciate the genre but considering that my over-amped imagination will turn a sight of a little girl with long hair in ghostly white attire into a full epileptic seizure within me, I try to stay as far away from scary films as much […] More
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That Was Gay: ‘The Boys in the Band’
In 1973, William Friedkin directed The Exorcist and frightened a generation, creating a horror movie classic. Three years earlier, before The French Connection launched Friedkin onto the A-list, he directed The Boys in the Band, an adaptation of an off-Broadway play about a group of gay men at a birthday party. The Boys in the […] More
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The Definitive Religious Movies: 20-11
We move into the top 20 now, where the films become incredibly spiritual. One major component seen in many of these religious films: the overtones meant to instill a sense of mystery and wonder. You see it in films set in both sweeping landscapes and intimate settings. Whether or not any of the films on […] More
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Horror Cinema’s Greatest Savants
In the world of horror cinema, the best way to fight a monster-be it a supernatural, human or natural one-is with a character that possesses special knowledge and skills. These experts-recruited into battle by other characters or colliding with the conflict intentionally-are the Savants of the horror world. Examples of Savant characters include David Warner’s […] More
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31 Days of Horror: Jump Scares, Twists & A Genre in Decline
There’s a wonderfully maddening moment early on in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining where Danny Torrance is perusing the corridors of the Overlook hotel on his tricycle. He swings round corners, the camera obsessively following him in a locked in third person perspective angle. The skin crawling score by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind swells up […] More
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‘Beyond the Hills’ a meditation on evil filled with eerie dread
Beyond the Hills Directed by Cristian Mungiu Written by Cristian Mungiu Romania, 2012 Dreadful anticipation, the kind that most mainstream horror films strive for and fail to achieve, permeates every second of Beyond the Hills, a new film from Romanian writer-director Cristian Mungiu. The film, a patient, uneasy drama about the nature and presence of […] More
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Essential Viewing for fans of ‘The Last Exorcism’
Ever since the release of the Academy Award nominated The Exorcist, back in 1973, Hollywood has benefited quite a bit from movies about exorcism, and the box office numbers show no signs of recession. With the release of The Last Exorcism 2, I decided to spotlight three films that are criminally overlooked, and that I […] More
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‘A Haunted House’ takes aim at an easy target, shoots itself in the foot
A Haunted House Directed by Michael Tides Written by Marlon Wayans and Rick Alvarez USA, 2013 Opens Jan. 25 in Toronto Have you ever opened up a history textbook and found that every single image of Josef Stalin was defaced with some sort of phallic or scatological graffiti? Or that his pictures were accompanied by […] More
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100 + Greatest Horror Movies (pt.6) 25-1
Throughout the month of October, Editor-in-Chief and resident Horror expert Ricky D, will be posting a list of what he considers the greatest horror films of all time. More
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‘The Possession’ has neither the structure nor the strength to withstand its running time
The Possession Directed by Ole Bornedal Written by Juliet Snowden, Stiles White USA, 2012 The ‘Eddie’ is an award given by the American Cinema Editors for achievement in film editing. The ‘Razzie’ is an award given by disgruntled moviegoers for recognition in the worst of filmmaking. If the two ever joined forces (the ‘Readdies’?), Ole […] More
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