“Hi, I’m Chucky! Wanna play?” Full disclosure: I put Child’s Play on this year’s lineup mainly to dunk on it. There are a few reasons for this: 1, Chucky is a stupid name; and...
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31 Days of Fright: The Wicker Man
“Come. It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man.” Folk horror really is its own beast. Some new entries like The Ritual and Apostle are a little heavier on the gore,...
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31 Days of Fright: Veronica
“Whatever you don’t say goodbye to, stays with you.” Oh man, here’s a good one. When Veronica hit Netflix, articles abounded proclaiming it one of the best horror movies in recent memory. I don’t...
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31 Days of Fright: Sometimes They Come Back
“Everything burns.” Adapting Stephen King is like a land grab in the gold rush days: everything is available, and everybody wants it all. Ever since Brian de Palma’s Carrie, King movies have been a...
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31 Days of Fright: Mandy
“I’m your god now.” Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy is not like other horror films, and boy does it want you to know it. It operates in a lurid music-video dreamscape that may or may not...
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31 Days of Fright: Tales from the Hood
“But you are responsible for the lives you’ve taken…for the dreams you’ve turned into nightmares.” I want to get this out of the way first thing: I am in no way qualified to talk...
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31 Days of Fright: Train to Busan
“Those on board must survive!” Don’t you love it when a movie lives up to the hype? I’ve had people recommend Train to Busan to me for years, to the point where I’m now...
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31 Days of Fright: Noroi: The Curse
“No matter how terrifying, I want the truth.” The best found-footage movies make you feel as though you’re watching something you should not be seeing. That’s the point of the genre, right? To fully...
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31 Days of Fright: Dog Soldiers
“You know what lives in the shadows now. You may never get another night’s sleep as long as you live.” It seems like the werewolf movie is dead as a genre. Think about it:...
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31 Days of Fright: Triangle
“Bad dreams make you think you’re seeing things that you haven’t.” Why isn’t Melissa George a bigger star? One might blame the glut of horror movies in the mid-00s; perhaps George got lost among...
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31 Days of Fright: Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
“Ever dance with the devil?” I was wary at first about including Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon in this year’s lineup of horror movies, because I made a “no horror comedies”...
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31 Days of Fright: Girl on the Third Floor
“Houses have personalities just like people, and some are rotten.” “Good bones” is a phrase you’ve probably heard. When a house has a solid foundation but needs some work, you say it’s got good...
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