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Rick Rosenthal’s ‘Halloween: Resurrection’ (2002) – Retro Review

“And now, he’s back…” After terrorizing poor Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis: Terror Train 1980 – our retro review) at Hillcrest Academy in 1998’s Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (our retro review), Michael Myers (Brad Loree: The Day of the Living Dead 2014) came back for more stabs in the franchise’s …

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{Exclusive} Friend ‘Til The End: Interview With Kyra Gardner About Her ‘Living With Chucky’ Documentary

Kyra Gardner fondly remembers scaring the living daylights out of her childhood friends. Rather than princess-themed birthday parties, this October baby opted for Halloween-inspired gatherings that always featured her red-haired, overall-clad “little older brother.” As the daughter of puppeteer and special effects master Tony Gardner, who joined Don Mancini’s Child’s Play franchise in …

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Interview With Bella Ortiz, Star Of ‘American Carnage’

Almost a decade ago, Bella Ortiz came close to attending medical school. But instead of advancing her education, she took a risk to pursue her lifelong passion for acting. The risk paid off, with Ortiz now battling sinister senior citizens in the brand new horror-comedy flick, American Carnage, released in …

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Looking Back On Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Lost World: Jurassic Park’ (1997) – Retro Review

Jeff Goldblum might currently be a TV commercial staple as he promotes Apartments.com, but two and a half decades ago, his iconic character of Dr. Ian Malcolm was asked to put his stamp on something slightly more terrifying—a theme park of genetically engineered dinosaurs. In the original Jurassic Park, a …

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Interview With ‘A Comedy of Horrors’ Creators Dan DeLuca and Ken Arnold

What does an evil substitute teacher, killer bridesmaids, and demonic puppet all have in common? They’re part of the amazingly bizarre new project, A Comedy Of Horrors, Volume 1, from Dan DeLuca (The Wire) and Ken Arnold (House of Cards), along with Matt Servitto (The Sopranos). This latest release comes …

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Stuart Gordon’s ‘Dolls’ (1987) – A Lesson In Embracing Your Inner Child – Retro Review

There’s something so enjoyably haunting about murderous dolls that, no matter how many times it’s done in film or television, it never gets old. Typically, the plotlines of these toy-focused projects keep to the status quo — kid gets doll, doll is possessed by an evil entity, evil entity wrecks …

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The Odds Are Still In Its Favor: Gary Ross’ ‘The Hunger Games’ – Retro Review

It seems like only yesterday that millennials were flocking to the theaters to see Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence: Mother! 2017 – our review) volunteer as tribute for The Hunger Games, a twisted, annual competition that forces teens to fight to the death until a victor is named. However, March 23, …

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Jennifer Tilly Reveals ‘Chucky’ Season 2 To Start Filming In April

It’s been about four months since Child’s Play creator Don Mancini’s hit SYFY series, Chucky, which brought everyone’s favorite supernaturally possessed Good Guys doll into homes every Tuesday night, wrapped up its premiere season with a slew of cliffhangers. From Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif) having her limbs unwillingly amputated by Tiffany Valentine …

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Joel Schumacher’s ‘The Number 23’ (2007): Numbers Have Power – Retro Review

To be honest, I never really got Jim Carrey. Growing up, as friends obsessed over the 2000 live action How the Grinch Stole Christmas every holiday season and laughed hysterically at 1994’s The Mask, I’d force a chuckle or two. However, upon seeing the 2007 psychological thriller The Number 23, my opinion of …

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Martin Strange-Hansen’s ‘On My Mind’ Shortlisted For An Oscar

The 2021 short film, On My Mind, may have been shot in a record four days with a total of 10 people—seven crew members and three actors—but the latest creation of writer/director Martin Strange-Hansen and producer Kim Magnusson is making a big impact among critics. Shortlisted for an Oscar, On …

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