WATCH NOW “Stir of Echoes” is a supernatural chicago neighborhood.” Kevin Bacon stars in one of his best performances as a telephone lineman named Tom Witzky, who plays in a band, and desperately wants to free himself from the monotony of his life – which he is very successful at achieving. “I never wanted to […]
WATCH NOW Let the Right One In is a vampire movie, but like with everything else, it is not what you think. It is, and I’m sorry to say this, dully dread. It treats vampires as serious threats the same way Murnau and Herzog’s versions of Nosferatu do which is very serious indeed. It is
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WATCH NOW There is always a thin line of stupidity that a character, be it a detective or a horror movie protagonist, cannot cross with you losing interest. The South Korean horror mystery blend The Wailing crosses that line several times and yet manages to stay effectively atmospheric. This sounds like an impossible task given
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WATCH NOW The Cabin in the Woods starts off with an old, well-known story template. One weekend, five college students get into a van and drive deep into the woods where they plan to stay at a cabin. Naturally, they make a stop at a gas station and meet a strange attendant who seems to
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WATCH NOW We recently watching Stephen Cognetti’s ‘Hell House LLC‘ series while recovering from COVID. We first thought it was about a haunted house filled with body modifications, but we soon discovered that it had much more to offer. The film portrays the mystery surrounding the deaths and disappearance of the public near the Abaddon
WATCH NOW In a Larry Fessenden movie, everybody is a character and sets the stage for something greater by merely existing. And in Blackout, we get just a glimpse of that. The movie is an unsatisfactory but rather interesting attempt at adapting Fessenden’s audio drama which makes use of the routines of Fessenden’s company, Glass
WATCH NOW When it comes to humongous monster films, I have to admit I am not a fan. I wouldn’t call this one a great film either, but I do enjoy Octopi, and it was that spirit that made this a bit more palatable for me, even though the creature has a very limited range
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WATCH NOW Being buried alive is a nightmare like no other. It certainly feels as though it should be feared by all, at least it was for me after I read Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Premature Burial” at age 7. The fact that you can move and scream but not a single soul hears you
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WATCH NOW One by one, the crows are landing in the schoolyard with a view of the Bodega Bay. They seem spellbound with the nursery rhyme chanted by the kids or attracted by the green glow of Tippi Hedren’s matching skirt and jacket. Or, perhaps, they are lured by the overbearing smell of her lit
WATCH NOW As a child, this was the first Universal Monster film I watched, and it made me want to watch more. I still find it very entertaining and it serves as an excellent sequel to The Wolf Man from 1941. The absence of Frankenstein’s Monster may be disappointing to some, as well as how
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