Author: Sean Parker
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Introducing your partner to your parents can be a nerve-wracking experience. Such is the case for The Parenting’s Rohan (Twisters’ Nik Dodani) and Josh (Hellraiser 2022’s Brandon Flynn), who have decided to whisk their polar opposite parents away to a cozy, isolated Airbnb in the woods to get to know each other as Rohan prepares to ask Josh…
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No one can resist a good zombie movie. When done right, these tales about feral monsters and animalistic impulses have ways of asserting more humanity than many of the thousands of films put out each year. Zombie movies have a rhythmic road map: outbreak, meet the survivors, attack, hard loss, grandiose overture, and aftermath. They’re…
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Hulu has been growing their original horror content for a long time. For those of us who remember the premiere of Into the Dark in October 2018, horror fans eagerly anticipated monthly original movies from the streamer in collaboration with Blumhouse Television. I was heartbroken when it ended. As Into the Dark faded out, Hulu…
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John Lithgow is an American treasure, and if you disagree, we can never be friends. I grew up watching him as the loveable yet oafish head of an alien family on 3rd Rock From the Sun after countless rewatches of Harry and the Hendersons with my family. Back then, I would never have considered a…
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How Was Your Weekend? These four banal little words we ask our coworkers to preserve office etiquette that often has a joyless auto-response attached. I suppose it depends on your corporate culture, but most offices simply don’t care what you’re going through these days. They just need you to be productive. So, what if the…
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As horror movie lovers, we’re captivated by ghost stories—the fun ones, the dramatic ones, and the ones that are hauntingly unshakable. When The Sixth Sense was released twenty-six years ago, it shook audiences. The symphony of gasps released in the auditorium as traumatic truths were revealed from a specter-seeing boy to his therapist are the…
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We’ve been leaning into independent films distributed through Cranked Up for a while now. While still relatively new, Cranked Up has been putting out films for over a decade as the genre offshoot of Good Deed Entertainment. Though not every title has been gold, Cranked Up is a studio focused on championing great ideas and…
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Ever since Nosferatu’s Max Schreck’s shadow slinked across the screen, movies have been subverting storytelling conventions and providing alternative perspectives. Nosferatu, an abject social metaphor for post WWI plague and German xenophobia, proved horror movie storytelling could instill philosophic concepts beyond that of its Hollywood counterparts, mainly seen for entertainment. Nosferatu is the grandfather of…
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Taking chances is what movies are all about. From the patron angle, you’re taking a chance going to a movie you may know little to nothing about, hoping to have a great experience. For filmmakers, it’s not much different. They’re trying their best to make that experience memorable. But modern-day filmmaking isn’t what it used…
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Somewhere between the beginning of your life and inevitable death, there’s chaos. Sometimes prosperous, but often not, mischief and difficulties are bound to rear their ugly little heads when you least expect them and, on occasion, to a devastating degree. So what do we call an entity of entropy so provocative it only leads to…