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Vision Quest has, over the years, become a cult classic. While it enjoyed success at the box office way back 1984, its greates succwss has been in cult circles of fans who either following wresting, or follow coming of age films. I personally watch this ting on averagte once a month or every six weeks … Continue reading Watching the Classics: Vision Quest – Shute was NOT a Villain.
It pains me to bring you this news but the new Firestarter movie is an epic fail. This will be brief, just like the movie. Yes, that’s right, an hour and thirty-four minutes and that’s counting credits. This felt like such a shell of a movie. Have you ever watched someone do Karaoke? Kind of … Continue reading Movie Review: Firestarter
. Two sisters deal with the disappearance of one ‘s husband. The wife declares him dead through Absentia after seven years and right after she does, he reappears. But something isn’t right with him. Oh, did I mention she was pregnant with another man’s child when he returns? This was a dark movie with some … Continue reading Movie Review: Absentia (2011)
While there are numerous filmmakers (writer/directors) who have brought amazing works to the horror genre of film, the past several years has seen incredible contributions from Mike Flanagan, who is gaining attention not just from the horror community of fans, but from some of horror’s most famed creators. https://youtu.be/rxZuop1d3hc Flanagan got his start with the … Continue reading The New King of Horror
Very few horror fans become horror fans without, at some point, experiencing the masterful works of one of the greatest writers in American Literature, Edgar Allan Poe. Now, another master of Horror, writer/director Mike Flanigan (Haunting of Hillhouse, Midnight Mass), is taking on a project to revive the nostalgia of the weird macabre that is … Continue reading Mike Flanagan Breathing Life Into Works Of Poe
Horror Franchises have been around as long as the horror genre has. With the first installments of Frankenstein and Dracula in 1931, followed by the Mummy and The Wolfman, horror movies spawned sequels and follow up movies creating franchises for each character or story. Hammer Films was masterful at creating these, producing nine Dracula films … Continue reading Top 30 Definitive Stephen King Adaptations
As if the release of Halloween Ends in October isn’t exciting enough, horror fans may get their a chilling prep in September eight the announced theatrical release of Salem’s Lot, a reboot of the 1979 mini series based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name. With an outstanding cast working on the film in … Continue reading James Wan Reboot Of Stephen King Classic Novel Set for Release
Stephen King’s novels and stories adapted to film is an entire horror franchise in itself. As with all adaptations, there are some really good ones and some really bad ones. We have to go back to 1976 for the first, Carrie, to see how well King’s works would translate to film. Here is my list … Continue reading Stephen King’s Best Films
I’m always excited when I hear about a new horror movie that has created a “buzz” in the horror community. So you can understand how anxious I was to finally get to see Ti West’s “X” after reading a few reviews. Now that I’ve spent 106 minutes of my life watching this movie, I sit … Continue reading Movie Review: X
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