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Every year, the Music Box Theatre in Chicago hosts the Music Box of Horrors movie marathon. For 24 hours, Chicago’s 95-year-old repertory movie house becomes the home of 12 to 15 horror movies, carefully curated to entertain, shock, and terrify a sell-out crowd of degenerate horror movie fans. Frequently, there will be Q&A sessions with…
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When someone mentions Beauty and the Beast, what comes to mind? For most people, it’s probably the animated film from the 1990s, but the story is actually much older than that. It’s a centuries-old fairy tale that’s been adapted for the big screen multiple times, and my personal favorite is the 1946 French version. But…
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I’m not going to sit here and tell you that the Venom movies are great. They’re not. They have all sorts of storytelling problems, but despite that, I still think they’re a ton of fun. I’ll always be a fan of this franchise, so when I heard Sony was making a third Venom film, I…
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Whether you’re a longtime horror veteran or you just like to dip your toes in the genre every once in a while, I’m sure you’ve seen at least one film where a priest saves a helpless victim from a malicious demon. Ever since The Exorcist, exorcism, and specifically Catholic exorcism, has been a staple of…
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Before we get into this week’s episode of Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch, I wanted to bring up something that came to light around the morning of October 13th. Users across TikTok reported something odd over the skies of Washington D.C., Virginia, and North Carolina. It should be noted that this story seemingly doesn’t have…
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Stalkers just might be the scariest monsters in all of horror cinema. The idea of someone being so obsessed with you that they start to intrude on your personal life is pretty terrifying, so it’s no surprise that filmmakers keep going back to this well. Films like Someone’s Watching Me!, The Invisible Man (the remake),…
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The Huluween season is alive and well, with the streamer’s third dose of original horror titles just in time for Halloween—and Jack O’Lantern season. Plucking Justin Harding’s 2018 short film Carved from the Pumpkin Patch, Hulu keeps with their trend of turning short film concepts into feature-length narratives, as they did with the recent Mr.…
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There’s something incredibly satisfying about a good revenge flick. Maybe it’s because bad people don’t always get what they deserve, or because so many of our problems are caused by impersonal enemies we can’t punish, but whatever the reason, this genre holds a special place in a lot of film fans’ hearts, mine included. I…
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Uzumaki ends with a terrifyingly apocalyptic finale that doesn’t quite undo the weaknesses of the series post-Episode 1. While the series overall has struggled with pacing issues, Episode 4 is focused and tight, rarely feeling rushed or overpacked with plotlines. The result is a wonderful cosmic horror ending that ratchets everything up as far as…
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Black Eyed Susan has been on my radar for a little while now. I first heard about this film when it debuted at Fantasia a few months ago, and it immediately caught my eye. It was billed as a hard-hitting takedown of male sexual abuse and exploitation of women, and if you’re familiar with my…