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‘Exists’ – ‘Blair Witch Project’ Director Unleashed One of the Best Bigfoot Horror Movies 10 Years Ago

March 4, 2024 Paul Lê Brian Steele, Editorials, Eduardo Sanchez, Exists, Jamie Nash

The beginning of Exists echoes those many other horror films set in the deep woods. Hapless folks encounter an unusual threat, likely after trespassing or offending the locals. And as this well-used formula commands, the characters then die in gruesome fashion. Eduardo Sánchez’s 2014 film is, admittedly, derivative of most body-count horrors with rural backdrops, […]

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“Masters of Horror” Gave Us New Movies from the Best Horror Filmmakers of All Time [TV Terrors]

March 1, 2024 Felix Vasquez Jr Editorials, Masters of Horror, Mick Garris, TV, TV Terrors

For this month’s installment of “TV Terrors” we revisit Showtime’s “Masters of Horror,” which was created by Mick Garris and aired for two seasons between 2005 and 2007. It seemed like a horror fan’s wet dream: a horror anthology series with some of the greatest horror filmmakers of all time lensing short format horror films […]

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‘Boxing Helena’ Deserves Love for Its Fearless Leading Duo [We Love ’90s Horror]

February 29, 2024 Drew Dietsch Boxing Helena, Editorials, Julian Sands, Movies, We Love '90s Horror

I’m trying to decrease my usage of “good” and “bad” when discussing art. They are lazy shortcuts that distill creativity into the simplest qualitative assessments as if art is worth boiling down to a pure binary outlook. It’s why whenever any movie is widely labeled “good,” I can’t help but approach it with some increased […]

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5 Deep Cut Horror Movies to Seek Out in March 2024

February 29, 2024 Paul Lê Cursed, Dead Bodies, Deep Cuts Rising, Editorials, Evolver, featured, La Cabina, The Oracle, The Telephone Box, topnews

New month, new recommendations from Deep Cuts Rising. This installment features random picks as well as selections reflecting the month of March 2024. Regardless of how they came to be here, or what they’re about, these past movies can generally be considered overlooked, forgotten or unknown. This month’s horror offerings include a killer robot, a […]

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‘The Butterfly Effect’ 20 Years Later: Exploring the Dark Side of Time Travel

February 27, 2024 Luiz H. C. Editorials, Horror Adjacent, Longform, Movies, The Butterfly Effect, time travel

From the infamous grandfather paradox to accidentally creating a timeline where Ned Flanders rules the world, there’s an element of existential horror to every single time travel story. However, it seems that most filmmakers prefer to focus on the exciting adventure aspects of these mind-bending yarns, as very few films choose to explore the terrifying […]

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‘Helldivers 2’ Impressions: Bug Blasting Co-op Shooter Provides ‘Starship Troopers’-Inspired Thrills and Humor

February 27, 2024 Aaron Boehm Arrowhead Game Studios, Editorials, Helldivers 2, PC, Playstation, PlayStation 5, steam, Video Games

We’re trying to hit the last bug nest when our mission clock runs out. Our support ship departs, taking with us our valuable stratagems and leaving us on our own with no extra lives. The two of us are overwhelmed and running low on ammo, so we decide it’s best to cut our losses and […]

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A Game of Rivals: The Conflicts That Shaped Horror Classic ‘The Black Cat’

February 26, 2024 Brian Keiper Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Editorials, Gods and Monsters, Movies, The Black Cat

In the 1930s, Universal laid claim to the two biggest horror stars of the era, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and it was only a matter of time before the pair would meet on screen. In 1932, only months after each rocketed to stardom in Dracula and Frankenstein respectively, the two were dressed in tuxedoes […]

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‘Rumpelstiltskin’ – Revisiting the ‘Leprechaun’ Director’s Fairy Tale Horror Movie

February 26, 2024 Paul Lê Editorials, Mark Jones, Rumpelstiltskin

By the time Rumpelstiltskin was in the works, the slasher model of yesteryear was replaced with something fresh but still familiar enough. Hence the many oddball slashers where the antagonist is neither human nor ordinary. From djinns to scarecrows, the decade saw horror turning to more fantastical inspirations. Mark Jones, whose career began in writing […]

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The Ruined Potential of ‘Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2’ a Decade Later

February 25, 2024 Mike Wilson castlevania lords of shadow 2, Editorials, Jason Isaacs, Konami, mercurysteam, Patrick Stewart, PC, Playstation 3, Richard Madden, Robert Carlyle, steam, Video Games, XBOX 360

Konami tried something new to inject new blood (no pun intended) into the Castlevania series with 2011’s Lords of Shadow, a new series that completely disregarded the established timeline. The result gave fans a cinematic platformer that dipped into the God of War series with its combat (for good and bad), but ultimately lacked that […]

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Finding Madness and Conspiracy in the Underrated Thriller ‘Under the Silver Lake’

February 23, 2024 Luiz H. C. Conspiracy, David Robert Mitchell, Editorials, Ergodic, It Follows, Longform, Movies, under the silver lake

When it comes to storytelling, it’s often said that the journey matters more than the destination, and that’s why I think ergodic fiction is so satisfying to read. Exemplified by narrative puzzles like Ryan Hughes’ XX and Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, these intricately crafted tales are defined by an intentional difficulty in actually […]

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Why ‘The Crow: City of Angels’ Is Worth Bringing Back from the Dead

February 22, 2024 Mike Holtz Editorials, Movies, The Crow, The Crow: City of Angels, Vincent Perez

Whether you consider The Crow: City of Angels cursed or simply made in bad taste by a studio (Dimension Films) that couldn’t care less, a rewatch more than twenty years later is a real eye-opener in terms of the film as a standalone experience. I remember being a kid who thought Brandon Lee as The […]

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The Best Gore Movies You Need to See: ‘Pieces’ (1982) Delivers a Real Chainsaw Massacre

February 22, 2024 Meagan Navarro Editorials, featured, Juan Piquer Simón, Movies, Pieces, The Best Gore Movies You Need to See, topnews

Juan Piquer Simón’s exploitation slasher Pieces (1982) has a bonkers reputation that precedes it, delivering one of horror’s most entertaining audience experiences of all time. The tagline, “It’s exactly what you think it is!” only scratches the surface of the weirdness within. Sure, you get exactly what you expect in terms of gore in this […]

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‘Rollerball’ Turned a 1970s Cult Classic into an Early 2000s Studio Disaster [Revenge of the Remakes]

February 21, 2024 Matt Donato Editorials, Movies, Revenge of the Remakes, Rollerball

In life, spewing hate comes easy; finding the good takes effort. That’s my mantra for “Revenge of the Remakes.” Get dirty and identify value where others hastily — maybe unfairly — laid harsh criticisms. Any remake, in any genre, faces biased outrage from peanut galleries who refuse to remove their nostalgia goggles. It’s easy to […]

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‘Amityville in Space’ Fails to Live Up to the Fun of Its Own Title [The Amityville IP]

February 20, 2024 Joe Lipsett Amityville, Cassandra Hayes, Editorials, Jeff Kirkendall, Mark Polonia, Michael Korotitsch, Movies, Natalie Himmelberger, Ryan Dalton, The Amityville IP, Tim Hatch, Titus Himmelberger

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” The law of horror movie franchises is that eventually, without fail, you go to space. It’s fitting, then, that the final outing for prolific Amityville writer/director Mark […]

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God, I Love This Street: The Brilliance of Joe Dante’s ‘The Burbs’ at 35

February 16, 2024 Brian Keiper Carrie Fisher, Editorials, Joe Dante, Movies, Rick Ducommun, the burbs, Tom Hanks

Every town seems to have that one house. The one that children walk by with hushed tones and dare each other to sneak onto the porch or ring the doorbell of. In the movies it’s the Myers House, 1428 Elm (at least in the later movies), or the House on Neibolt Street—usually run down and […]

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