The sights and sounds we take in growing up often have the power to stick with us well into adulthood. These images can be from film or television and can encompass any tone or genre of storytelling. More often than not, however, it’s the stuff that frightened and disturbed us in those formative years that […]
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The “guy in a gorilla suit” is synonymous with cheap genre film quickies. If you had a budget of pocket lint and pennies, you could knock out a low rent schlockfest where your monster was some variant of an ape in no time flat. Hell, John Landis did just that in the early 1970s with […]
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Legendary’s MonsterVerse is something of a miracle in the realm of modern franchises. America had its shot at adapting Toho’s Godzilla in 1998 only to find almost universal hatred from the fanbase, poor critical reception, and a weaker box office than expected. Toho themselves even voiced their displeasure with the final product. The notion of […]
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Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) isn’t so much a follow-up to his monochromatic frenzy of an original as it is a new approach to the same themes he explored in the first go around. 1989’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man is an industrial nightmare – a scouring pad to the grey matter. Body Hammer […]
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Dinosaurs are back on the big screen and chomping through loads of cash thanks to the closer to the Jurassic World Trilogy, Dominion. If you’re like me and you think there is a severe lack of dinosaur-themed awesomeness in our entertainment landscape you owe it to yourself to check out acclaimed animator Genndy Tartakovsky’s (Samurai […]
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It doesn’t need to be said that George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead is one of THE most influential independent films of all time. The various strands of its web reach far and wide in the world of film – not just horror. What might not be as well-known however, is that Romero […]
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It’s always fun to reminisce on the media of your youth and trace the bloody trails of your lifelong fears back to their origins. Me, I’ve always been anxious around bodies of water. The ocean in particular fascinates me as much as it terrifies me. It’s not a potent enough fear to be a phobia, […]
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Ah, Friday the 13th. We all have collective ants in our pants wishing and hoping that all of the legal drama surrounding the franchise will dissipate so we can finally see Jason in theaters again. The hope for hearing any kind of good news on a new feature going forward has reached something of a […]
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Oh boy. This movie. Paul Morrisey’s 1973 feature Flesh for Frankenstein (AKA Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein) is quite the dip into genre absurdity. Initially the film may look like a more sexed up Hammer production, but it quickly establishes itself as something far more perverse and darkly comedic than any of Hammer’s stately, gothic curios. The […]
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The Newsweek blurb that has graced every physical release of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining calls it “The first epic horror film.” That quote has always stuck with me. Horror films are many things, but epic is usually not one of them. Put simply, a cinematic epic is defined by its sense of scope – telling […]
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April 26th means Alien Day. And on this day I would like to challenge the “common wisdom” of James Cameron’s Aliens that has always been a bee in my bonnet. Or should I say an Alien in my ascot? A Facehugger in my frock? I’m not going to sit here and pretend that what is […]
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The Critters franchise is very close to my heart. Like Gremlins, it is not only one of the first horror movies I remember seeing, but it’s one of the first films I remember seeing in general. During my adolescence I felt like the only person who had seen these films, and because of that they […]
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Ah, Ghoulies – the other, other Gremlins knock-off. This label is something of unfair misnomer, as the first Ghoulies film was in production at the same time as Joe Dante’s classic film. This little franchise that could sit on a porcelain throne of cult appreciation alongside other Tiny Terror pictures like Critters and Troll. The […]
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Actor/filmmaker Bob Balaban made his directorial debut with this underseen gem of childhood fear and suburban horror. 1989’s Parents isn’t the first horror film to use the setting of middle class America to study the rot that hides underneath, but it is a particularly eerie and bleakly funny one. The story is simple: little Michael […]
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Oh boy. Munchies (1987) is…something. Produced by the beyond prolific and legendary Roger Corman and directed by Tina Hirsch, Munchies is a late 80s rip-off of Gremlins – one of the slew of similar films to follow in the wake of the 1984 Amblin classic. Corman is known for cashing in on any hot film or […]
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