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Happy Friday the 13th! Give Some Love To These Underappreciated Sequels As We Dive Into the “Worst” of the Franchise

As a horror series, Friday the 13th stands out with its iconic imagery. Those too young to see horror or too freaked out to jump into the genre already know who Jason Voorhees is and can link his trusty hockey mask to his image, fueling early word-of-mouth urban legends about the killer — whether based on his dark deeds on film or completely made-up. For the only Friday that falls on the 13th day of the month this year, fans may think it has to count for the best of what the franchise has to off...

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‘Hell Hole’ Review – This Monster Movie Needs To Dig Deeper

The Adams family films have been on the up and up lately, catching the eye of horror enthusiasts ever since The Deeper You Dig in 2019. Their tendencies for lingering, dread-infused horrors present in their recent filmography grew in Hellbender to play with something more overt and in your face. That is to say, a good bit more daring. The Adams family have pushed their efforts here towards daring in a greater capacity. The family’s latest film Hell Hole stars John Adams and Toby Poser, who also ...

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‘Frankie Freako’ Review – Throwback Creature Feature Is Pretty Good Pizza

Writer/director Steven Kostanski is doubling down on more of the humor that made Psycho Goreman an outlier for horror comedies within the past few years. This time around it comes in a pint-sized form (give or take a few ounces). Frankie Freako is, largely, a puppet-centric original creature feature that lifts from various Gremlins-adjacent cinematic riffs like a spoiled grade-schooler would when trick-or-treating, regardless of a babysitter’s presence. You could say that Frankie Freako meets ex...

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Minh T Mia as Dr. Veronica Beef in Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn's DREAM TEAM. Photo by Whitney Horn. Courtesy of Yellow Veil Pictures. Writers and directors Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn have carved out a specific cavern of cinema out for themselves. It’s completely autonomous of the conventions filmic “aesthetics” populate within A24-like fuzzy film filters although it may look just like one. The difference is Dream Team’s attitude, which is something admirably peculiar and offers something wholehea...

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‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’, ‘Halloween’ & The Season of Giving And Taking

There’s a chill in the air. Frost is accumulating in the sky and on car windshields; people’s faces are leaking fluids while they try politely hiding their illnesses; dealerships are dusting off their house brand market-devised strategically named year-end sales events. In other words, the holidays are here. But the only holiday we know will get the spotlight is Christmas. I’m not here to tell you why, you probably already have a good idea. There’s an embarrassment of riches when it comes to any...

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‘Rats!’ Review – Welcome To The Weird World Of 2007

It’s hard to describe what it was really like to be going through adolescence during the first decade of the 2000s. A multitude of cultural journeys in America intricately overlapped during a time that felt simple to those of us too young to parse the reality of the USA’s foretold doom. And to help tell the story of one mixed-up individual deep in issues they understand more than the average adult, we’re thrown into Rats! as Raphael (Luke Wilcox) is forced to work with the police against a famil...

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“Pop” Culture Horror — The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

A feature-length, fully animated Looney Tunes movie seems like something we would have gotten a lot more of in this world. But this is the first and only original film in the history of the studio. Though there is a certain apprehension towards how different Looney Tunes feels nowadays, seeing Porky Pig and Daffy Duck’s buddy slapstick adventure unfold returns us to what has made the Warner Bros. animation powerhouse so special. Director Peter Browngardt guides his beloved odd couple duo into ne...

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‘Blades Of The Guardians’ Review – Yuen Woo-Ping’s 60-Year Convergence Of Martial Arts Film History

Yuen Woo-Ping has had a chokehold on audiences since his first film credit. He started his career on Ng See-Yuen’s The Bloody Fists blocking fight choreography in 1972. Woo-Ping’s work stood out against an otherwise ordinary period martial arts from the 2nd unit director of The Chinese Boxer, See-Yuen himself marking his debut on Fists. But Woo-Ping’s career catapulted from there. His style of staging fights on camera evolved over time, incorporating more balletic movements and wire work to comb...

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Shudder’s Second Helping of Bite-Sized Horror History

Shudder’s Second Helping of Bite-Sized Horror History

‘Endless Cookie’ Review – Boundless Delights And The Eternal Story

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‘Don’t You Let Me Go’ Review – The Tender Beauty Of Unvoiced Sorrow

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