“There’s no way for me to show you the things that I can tell you.” I don’t think anyone saw this coming, but Blumouse has quietly become one of the most progressive studios making...
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5 Minutes
5 Minutes
31 Days of Fright: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
“You can’t kill damnation, mister. It don’t die like a man dies.” Going in to watching Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, you need to be aware, from the jump, that this movie...
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7 Minutes
31 Days of Fright: A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
“How do you handle your nightmares?” Generally speaking, if a movie has both a number and a colon in the title, you’re justified in assuming it’s going to be awful. In fact, there’s only...
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31 Days of Fright: Marrowbone
“You’re the one who’s really dead.” Gothic horror is a genre to which it’s hard to bring anything new. It’s so well-known and so defined by its classics (The Haunting of Hill House, The...
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6 Minutes
31 Days of Fright: Puppetmaster
“We put the dead to rest.” I am absolutely baffled by the longevity of the Puppetmaster franchise. There have been 12 of these since the first one came out in 1989 – the most...
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4 Minutes
31 Days of Fright: Lake Mungo
“Death takes everything eventually. It’s the meanest, dumbest machine there is.” You’re going to see the title Lake Mungo pop up on a ton of lists, all of which will have titles along the...
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31 Days of Fright: The Legend of Hell House
“It’s the Mount Everest of haunted houses.” There’s a nonzero chance that you might not know the name Richard Matheson; he doesn’t come up in conversation as often as he should. Matheson helped define...
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31 Days of Fright: Verotika
“Hello, my darklings.” It’s hard to know where to start when discussing Verotika. This film is so astoundingly bad, so astonishingly inept in every single direction, so unintentionally hilarious, that I’m tempted to just...
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4 Minutes
31 Days of Fright: The Bad Seed
“Children can be nasty, don’t you think?” I’m not sure if The Bad Seed was the first creepy kid movie, but it was certainly the most popular. The 1956 film comes off the heels...
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31 Days of Fright: The Changeling
“That house is not fit to live in. No one’s been able to live in it. It doesn’t want people.” Death is a big part of horror as a genre. So why isn’t grief?...
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31 Days of Fright: We Are Still Here
“Nobody knew what was under this house until it was too late!” Retro-style horror is a curious thing. Sometimes – and this is a compliment – it can play like a mixtape, or a...
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31 Days of Fright: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
“The saw is family.” How would you even begin to make a sequel to a document as perfect as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Why would you even try? There’s a reason that Aliens is...
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