The Era of Hollywood’s Tried and True Formula The early 2000s saw so many remakes of wildly popular, highly successful Asian horror films. From The Ring to One Missed Call, and Pulse, there was a wave of remade films that got a lot of hate. Sometimes fairly justified. The originals …
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It’s unbelievably difficult to acknowledge the film class of 2010 is turning 10 this year. Movies like Inception and The Social Network certainly don’t feel ten years old, but maybe that has more to do with my own unwillingness to accept being in my mid 30s than I’m ready to …
Read More »George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968) is one of the most revered horror films of all time. It spawned no less than 5 sequels and influenced multiple generations of filmmakers and their films. It is adored by critics and audiences alike. The Library of Congress added the …
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This is an article on Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley) as portrayed in Samuel Bayer’s 2010 reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street (read our retro review here). On that note, let me address the huge elephant in the room: This is not really a review of that movie, which is …
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While Friday the 13th and Halloween were decade-defining horror franchises in the 1980s, the 1990s belong to the Scream series. The original film breathed new life into horror by popularizing the self-aware slasher film. It was a game changer, bringing in new fans and re-energizing veteran ones. Horror master Wes …
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All of you classic horror fans are in luck, because in a wildly experimental and damn curious fervor, I watched both the Jacob’s Ladder movies back to back, the 1990 version starring Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption 1994), and the upcoming Jacob’s Ladder reboot starring Michael Ealy (Underworld Awakening 2012), Jesse …
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Just announced Saturday, March 30, 2019, at WonderCon, was the exciting news that Mark Hamill will voice the killer doll Chucky in the Child’s Play remake that is due out this summer. This new version will be directed by Lars Klevberg (Polaroid) and will also star Aubrey Plaza (Ingrid Goes West), Brian …
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Streaming service Hulu has acquired the rights to stream and remake the hit Israeli vampire show, Juda. The original was an eight part series that will be shown on Hulu in the first part of 2019. The show is written by and stars Zion Baruch, and is set in the …
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Remakes of ’70s and ’80s horror films were all the rage in the 2000s. The box office success of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre remake in 2003 started a bit of a renaissance. What followed was a hodgepodge of mostly watered down studio fluff, including The Fog, The Wicker Man, …
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Stephen King’s Pet Sematary is coming to a new generation of moviegoers in 2019 courtesy of Paramount Pictures. What we know so far: the release date is April 19, 2019. We know that John Lithgow is playing Jud Crandall. Jason Clarke is playing Louis Creed. Amy Seimetz will portray Louis’s wife …
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