“We have such sights to show you.” I figured I owed Clive Barker a fairer shake than I initially gave him when I shat all over Hellraiser a few years ago. Sure, his brand...
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31 Days of Fright: The Cave
“All European legends have sad endings.” I’m going to start describing a movie, and I have a good feeling that you’re going to think I’m talking about The Descent. I want to assure you...
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Every Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld
The Other Nominees: Anthony Adverse; Dodsworth; Libeled Lady; Mr. Deeds Goes to Town; Romeo and Juliet; San Francisco; The Story of Louis Pasteur; A Tale of Two Cities That’s right, this column is still...
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31 Days of Fright: Tigers Are Not Afraid
“Tigers are Kings in this Kingdom of broken things.” People die in horror movies all the time. It’s kind of a hallmark of the genre. What we don’t see as often is the emotional...
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31 Days of Fright: Castle Freak (2020)
“That castle is filled with evil.” So, you want to remake a Stuart Gordon film? Well, that’s not a bad idea in and of itself. Let’s see, you’ll want to stick to the Big...
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31 Days of Fright: Near Dark
“The night has its price.” It’s not very trenchant to point out that some movies are cool. Cool isn’t the same as good, and a movie can be both, or one, or neither. Citizen...
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31 Days of Fright: The House By the Cemetery
“Blood! Blood! Not just blood – his name! I hear it now!” Lucio Fulci is one of those names you’re not going to be able to stay away from. He’s part of the Holy...
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31 Days of Fright: Child’s Play (2019)
“Are we having fun now?” The only thing more predictable than comic book movies these days are reboots. Hell, there’s a new Texas Chainsaw Massacre coming to Netflix soon, which will make the ninth...
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31 Days of Fright: In the Mouth of Madness
“Do you read Sutter Cane?” John Carpenter was so ubiquitious in the 1980s that it’s easy to think that he fell off in the ’90s. There was the poorly-received Memoirs of An Invisible Man...
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31 Days of Fright: Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
“He’ll never die.” It’s safe to assume that once a franchise has reached its fifth installment, it’s safe to call it quits. At that point, it’s most likely in the hands of greedy, creatively...
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31 Days of Fright: A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
“It’s a boy!” Right off the bat, we should establish that there’s no good reason for A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child to exist. I mean, none of the Nightmare sequels...
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31 Days of Fright: Grave Encounters
“This place is about as haunted as a sock drawer.” It feels like a lot of modern found-footage horror movies follow the same playbook: a group of skeptics goes into a place they believe...
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