Author: Sean Parker
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Indie films are kind of my jam. If you’ve read any of my work on this or any other site, there’s a good chance it was for an underdog movie made by passionate people. When it was announced that A Most Atrocious Thing would have its World Premiere at the Make Believe Film Festival, I…
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If you’re a fair-weather horror fan who only takes in the biggest Hollywood horror titles and rarely ventures into the mid-level or microbudget worlds of the macabre, then the name Graham Skipper might not ring a bell. But for the rest of us, the prospect of new Graham Skipper material is always great news. Skipper…
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Almost a hundred years ago, the archetype for the first suburban community was developed. A well-marketed staple of the American dream, a suburban home was a sign of prominence and social status. People were escaping a life of inner-city crowding and, if you ask those marketers, potential violence for a safer, cleaner living space away…
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I’ll start honestly. I had low expectations for Michael Mohan’s latest film Immaculate. The Voyeurs, Mohan’s last film, which also starred Sydney Sweeney, struck me as a knockoff of Polanski’s Apartment trilogy mixed with a heap of Rear Window. But more than anything, it was a bit lifeless. Then, I saw the jumpscare heavy trailer…
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During the Christmas season a year ago, I gifted myself my first Vinegar Syndrome subscription. Filling my 2023 with endless B-movie entertainment from robust psycho-erotic thrillers to beguiling straight-to-video actioners, these eyes have seen things they’ll never understand, and gleefully so. Some of the stuff out there from the bygone heyday of video rentals aren’t…
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The return of the legendary Hammer studio brought an ear-to-ear grin to my face with the announcement of Doctor Jekyll in 2020. Hammer is responsible for a plethora of monster films, including some based on the Universal creations, usually with an unequivocal look of Technicolor and a propensity for a deeper macabre than the monster…
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In a time when life is a literal nightmare, it seems ridiculous to look into the past for primordial terror. The election looms. Covid is on the rise again, rampantly spreading and evolving. And the number of mass shootings in the United States exceeded the number of days in the calendar year again in 2023.…
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Welcome to 2024. It’s bleak and cold, about as February as February gets, and the year is already equipped to unsettle us with election primaries right around the corner. To fight the inundation of pundit soundbites and attack ads, I had been diving into the deep end of festive films during my holiday break. I…
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Someone will have to tell me why Punch and Judy dolls were ever as popular as they were. Not only are they before my time, they’re pretty much before everyone’s time. Punch originates in 16th-century Italy but became “a staple of the British seaside scene,” according to The Daily Telegraph. Plotlines in the puppet theatre…