Richard Schertzer

Why Horror Movies Have Lost their Campy Quality

Beetlejuice - pretty campy, right?

Horror has evolved a lot in the decades, but that doesn’t mean that it’s for the better. Horror movies began their inception with practical effects that shocked and terrified audiences with makeup, dark themes, fake blood and invisible wires. Some of the wires in those movies were somewhat visible, to …

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Thordur Palsson’s ‘THE DAMNED’ (2025) – Review

The Damned

It’s fair to say that most people will never understand the hard cold or of living off your own kill and possibly starving if you don’t hunt. Evidently, Thordur Palsson’s film The Damned reveals things like that and more.  The film revolves around a small group of people in the …

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Andrew Bell’s ‘BLEEDING’ (2024) – Movie Review

I’ve seen good films and I’ve seen bad films. This is, indeed, not a good film by any stretch of the imagination.  Evidently, a new drug that is adjacent to vampire blood is being bought and sold on the black market for profit and pleasure, which already sounds like something …

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Marielle Heller’s ‘NIGHTBITCH’ (2024) – Movie Review

There are movies that can exceed expectations and then there are movies that don’t do anything other than exist and fulfill a slot in theaters and a resume-builder for some actors. Nightbitch is the latter of the two options. The story centers around a middle-aged mother named…..Mother. That’s her name …

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Why ‘THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY’ (1945) Is Uniquely Terrifying

When people think of horror movies, they might think of Universal Monsters, 2000s campy, scary movies or comedy horror movies. You might not think of Albert Lewin’s 1945 film The Picture of Dorian Gray. It might seem like a random pick for a terrifying horror movie, but it certainly checks …

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Blasphemy? Why ‘THE EXORCIST’ (1973) Is Not Scary

The Exorcist

Yes, the movie is over 50 years old, but it’s only fair that we discuss this scary – or unscary – issue. The Exorcist is not scary. At least, it’s not scary…anymore. Let me elaborate! When it was released in 1973, the film was considered to be one of the …

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