“You were born for this. You know it. It’s a gift.” It’s a common adage that only bad or mediocre movies should be remade, and as a result of that, everyone’s mileage varies on...
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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: I Trapped the Devil
“Evil is whatever hurts you the most.” There are two kinds of horror movies – well, wait, that’s not even remotely true; there’s about a hundred different kinds of horror movies. But for the...
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31 Days of Fright: Tales From the Hood 2
This movie sucks! Sorry, just had to get that out of the way, because it was my prevailing thought during and after finishing Tales From the Hood 2. The original film is a landmark...
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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: V/H/S 94
“All are welcome. All are watching.” Any time I write about a found-footage movie, or an anthology movie, I always make the same stupid point: that the film needs a really good reason to...
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31 Days of Fright: Sea Fever
“Are my eyes open or closed?” The open water, like deep space, is so perfect a setting for horror that it’s kind of amazing that we don’t see it more often. It’s the complete,...
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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: 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: 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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31 Days of Fright: Vampires
By the end of the twentieth century, the bloom had come off the rose for John Carpenter. After dominating the entire horror genre in the 1980s, the 1990s proved to be less profitable for...
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