Tag: horror
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Imaginary (2024)
Well, I just saw Imaginary, the latest Blumhouse excretion, and it’s an Oscar contender for most boring film of the year. This was actually a major disappointment since the trailers made it seem as though it’d be visually and conceptually interesting. Filmed through what seemed to be eyeholes in a mask and evoking a topsy-turvy…
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Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
I just watched Lisa Frankenstein and it was one of those movies where almost nothing really works, and yet… I kind of loved it. The unfortunately named Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton) is an ‘80s teenage outcast whose mother was killed by an axe murderer. She’s now struggling to deal with a bitchy stepmother (Carla Gugino)…
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Bad Movie Night choices: Body of Evidence (1993) and Strait-Jacket (1964)
One of the more famous movie disasters, Body of Evidence is surprisingly entertaining as a film to watch with friends, so long as you’re comfortable watching sex scenes together. It stars Madonna at the tail end of a string of panned movies, the previous entries being Shanghai Surprise (1986), Who’s That Girl (1987), and Bloodhounds…
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High Tension (2003)
Perhaps all you need from a slasher film is a lot of gory killings and cat-and-mouse scenes. If so, Alexandre Aja‘a High Tension is for you. As for me, this is a film that forced upon my consciousness a realisation: whatever mood I’m in, I do at least need a story that makes a basic…
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Night Swim (2024)
Well, I saw my first movie of 2024, Night Swim, and it was a dud, though not at least a painful one. It was a typical January horror film, though of the mediocre school as opposed to outright schlock. It tells a Stephen King-esque tale of a haunted swimming pool in the new backyard of…
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Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1972)
I just saw Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb, the last of the local art centre’s choices for Classic Horror Nights, and it was a jewel, so to speak. Based loosely on The Jewel of the Seven Stars by Bram Stoker, most famous for Dracula, it utilises a lot of the elements of British and Hammer…
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The Uncanny (1977)
I just saw 1977’s The Uncanny, an anthology horror film starring Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasance just prior to his role as Dr Loomis in Halloween, at my local art centre’s Classic Horror Nights and it was fantastic. Your mileage with it may vary, depending on your taste for camp and tolerance of cheese in…
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Thanksgiving (2023)
I just saw Thanksgiving, the new slasher film by Eli Roth, and it was fun. Featuring a great cold open wherein a Black Friday sale leads to a deadly rampage of greed in a small town, we cut to one year later as a slasher in a Pilgrim hat and mask starts insisting on the…
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Horror Classic Quickies: Friday the 13th (1980) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Arguably the true first of the slasher boom that would help to define ‘80s horror cinema, for better or worse, this is the film that codified and thereby effectively birthed the sub-genre without even meaning to. Director Sean S Cunningham had no intention to make any sort of inspirational piece, he was just ripping off…
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The Exorcist: Believer (2023)
What is it with David Gordon Green and vintage horror reboots? His first Halloween reboot (2018) was fine, probably the best of the Halloween sequels, but the others were trash and now we have this. Why has he gone from such worthy indie dramas as George Washington (2000) and All the Real Girls (2003) to…
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