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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

The Festival of Samhain

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At one point in the first act of Livid (which I wrote about a couple of days ago), there's a scene where the main characters are accost...
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Matter Over Mind

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The Boxer's Omen (1983, directed by Chih-hung Kuei) is a late-period Shaw Brothers production that sees the studio trying to adapt to ...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Rats in the Walls

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The zombie apocalypse finds a different wrinkle in Mulberry Street (2006, directed by Jim Mickle). Instead of the walking dead, this film ...
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Monday, October 29, 2012

Break a Leg

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Michele Soavi's Deliria (aka Stagefright, 1987) is of its time and place. It's a slasher, of course, but it's a slasher film th...

Death Becomes Her

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While I was in the moment, I had a grand old time watching The Dead Inside (2011, directed by Travis Betz). It starts as a sly comedy send...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Dream Logic

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While a certain amount of the sensibility that made Inside such a relentless horror experience is present in Livid (2011), Alexandre Bustil...

Hungry Like the Wolf

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Lobos de Arga (2011, directed by Juan Martinez Moreno) has been burdened with a couple of international titles. I prefer "Game of Wer...
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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Fish Out of Water

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For the last several years, I've traveled to Ypsilanti, Michigan to attend a big horror movie party. My friend who throws this party is...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

The Hollywood Option

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Ben Affleck's Argo (2012) takes on the Iranian hostage crisis from a clever and engaging point of view. In January of 1980, the CIA co...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

Scream and Scream Again

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Entire cycles of self-referential horror movies have risen and crumbled in the years since Scream briefly revived the slasher film as crit...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Welcome to the Dollhouse

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Has there ever been a more drastic and perverse evolution of a horror movie franchise than the Child's Play movies? When most movie ...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Watch and Wait

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There's a fine line between an exploitation movie and an art movie. Walking that line is a tightrope act. Sometimes, it seems to me tha...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Walk Like An Egyptian

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Mummy movies, if you'll pardon the expression, seem like they're cursed. Is there a horror sub-genre with a worse ratio of good mov...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

A Wolf in the Fold

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I was discussing the new DTV movie, Werewolf: The Beast Among Us (2012, directed by Louis Morneau) with a friend of mine while I was watch...
Monday, October 15, 2012

Shrine On You Crazy Diamond

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It's not without a certain amount of affection that I suggest that The Shrine (2010, directed by Jon Knautz) reminds me of something t...
Sunday, October 14, 2012

Couple's Therapy

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Tales from the zombie apocalypse are coming from every corner of the globe these days. In truth, I'm a little bit worn out by zombies, ...
Saturday, October 13, 2012

Monsters and Mazes

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When Pan's Labyrinth (2006, directed by Guillermo del Toro) was first in theaters, I remember thinking that I really needed to wait a ...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

Shadows Out of Time

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"Novel. n. A short story, padded." -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary I have to admit that when I first saw the trail...
Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Into the Woods

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YellowBrickRoad (2010, directed by Jesse Holland and Andy Milton) is another horror movie in which a group of researchers follows the foot...
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Sunday, October 07, 2012

I Like the Dark. It's Friendly.

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Jacques Tourneur's Cat People (1942) is one of those movies that's so interwoven with my love of movies that I hardly know where t...
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Friday, October 05, 2012

Blood in the Water

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It's kind of refreshing to see exploitation as shameless and in your face as what one finds in Alexandre Aja's remake of Piranha (...
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Thursday, October 04, 2012

A Tall Tale

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I'm not entirely sure of what to do with Pascal Laugier's The Tall Man (2012). It's some variety of genre film, but it's a...
Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Past Imperfect

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There aren't any new ideas in the horror genre, usually, but sometimes, someone will take an existing idea and give it a new twist. I w...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Blood and Brocade

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The Erzsébet Báthory legend is one of the most persistent stories in the horror myth pool, partially because it's so utterly ghastly an...
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Monday, October 01, 2012

Splendor in the Grass

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The Reeds (2010, directed by Nick Cohen) uses two of the more metaphysical tropes associated with ghost stories to great effect. First, th...
Sunday, September 30, 2012

The October Horror Movie Challenge is Nigh

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Tomorrow is October 1st and that means one thing: it's horror movie time. No more hoarding those twisted little movies. It's time t...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

Kicking a Dead Horse

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There's no easy way to say this: I've been blocked. I won't get into the reasons, but it has been next to impossible for me to c...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Myth Guided

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This is a part of the Camp and Cult Blogathon . The mad genius behind this is Stacia over at She Blogged by Night . One of the things I a...
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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Grudge Match

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I don't know if she can act--on the evidence of Haywire (2012, directed by Steven Soderbergh), the jury is still out--but that may not...
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Thursday, September 13, 2012

A Long Day of Things and People

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David Cronenberg is a filmmaker who never throws anything away. Sprawled across his mannered and uncomfortable adaptation of Don DeLillo...