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Subject Two
Every Halloween, horror critics tend to produce lists of film suggestions to properly celebrate Samhain. I’ve done so myself, in this very…
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Resident Evil
When the first Resident Evil game was released in the United States in 1996, I don’t imagine anybody thought that it would…
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Buddy
I saw this film in a theater, and two women were sitting next to me. During the credits, one asked the other,…
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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
One of the pleasures of being a cinephile is watching a young filmmaker find their voice and get better as they make…
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Evil Dead Burn
God help me, I liked Evil Dead Burn. I wasn’t expecting to. Don’t get me wrong: I loved the original Evil Dead…
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Backrooms
In the last decade, the term “liminal horror” popped into existence as if it had always been there, sitting quietly in an…
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Hokum
I’ve written about my admiration for writer/director Damian McCarthy’s two previous films, Caveat and Oddity, in this column before. From the very…
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Exit 8
I was lucky enough to be able to visit Japan a few years ago with a friend of mine, and like everyone…
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Ready or Not 2: Here I Come and They Will Kill You
Could there possibly be a reason that movies about evil rich people sacrificing and hunting the poor for their own enrichment and…
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Undertone
To repurpose a quote from Frank Herbert’s Dune, “I must not believe hype. Hype is the enjoyment killer. Hype is the little…
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Cold Storage & Marshmallow
Sometimes one wants a film filled with subtlety and nuance, cinema that plumbs the human condition and makes one a better person.…
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Chimps, the Infected, Serial Killers and Supernatural Power Struggles
The new year has unexpectedly graced us with a plethora of interesting and entertaining horror films this month in theaters or on…
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The 25 Greatest Horror Films of the Past Quarter Century – The Top Five
Here’s the fifth and final installment of my list of the twenty-five greatest horror films from the past quarter century, starting from…
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The 25 Greatest Horror Films of the Past Quarter Century, Part Four
Here’s the fourth and penultimate installment of my list of the twenty-five greatest horror films from the past quarter century, starting from…
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The 25 Greatest Horror Films of the Past Quarter Century, Part Three
Here’s the third installment of my list of the twenty-five greatest horror films from the past quarter century, starting from the bottom…
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Keeper
The old saying, “Strike while the iron is hot” is never more meaningful than in the movie industry, where financing is hard…
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The 25 Greatest Horror Films of the Past Quarter Century, Part Two
Here’s the second installment of my list of the twenty-five greatest horror films from the past quarter century, starting from the bottom…
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Bone Lake & Good Boy
Expectations in seeing a movie can make a lot of difference. When I saw the trailer for Bone Lake, I thought it…
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The 25 Greatest Horror Films of the Past Quarter Century, Part One
A quarter of the twenty-first century is almost over, and there has been no lack of quality horror, filmic or otherwise, during…
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The Conjuring: Last Rites
After a lifetime watching horror movies, I’ve come up with a few rules based on my observations. The first and most important…
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Weapons
When writer/director Zach Cregger’s film Barbarian was released in 2022, horror fans recognized that rare thing – an original voice, with the…
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Together
For some reason, Hollywood doesn’t seem to be making as many romantic comedies or dramas anymore. The reasons behind this are debatable,…
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Caveat
Last September I wrote a short review of writer/director Damian Mc Carthy’s (he prefers his last name spelled with a space between…
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28 Years Later
Although 28 Days Later isn’t technically a zombie movie (the monsters aren’t revivified corpses, but people infected with the “Rage Virus”), it’s…
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Bring Her Back
As anyone who loves horror films already knows, one of the beauties of the genre is its breadth of styles and subject…
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Final Destination Bloodlines
Back in 2000, a potential story for an episode of The X-Files was changed into a feature script and became the film…