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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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If you’re not familiar with Well Go USA, you need to remedy that. They’re one of the best genre distributors out there, and they especially excel at bringing Korean films to the States. For example, they’ve introduced American audiences to modern classics like Train to Busan and The Wailing, and just last month, they gave…
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You’d be hard-pressed to find a more dementedly sadistic horror movie than The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Sure, the film isn’t particularly gory, but despite that lack of on-screen blood and guts, the insanity of the Sawyer family still hits you like a ton of bricks. It’s a visual and psychological assault on our sense…
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To riff on the opening line of another recent review of mine, horror and religion go together like peanut butter and jelly. It’s a classic combination that’s given us some of the greatest horror films of all time, like The Exorcist, The Wicker Man, and The Witch, so when I first heard about Sheeps Clothing,…
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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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I’m always up for a new Blumhouse film. Sure, Blumhouse has their fair share of stinkers just like any other studio, but they’ve also put out some of the best horror movies of the past decade and a half, like Paranormal Activity, Get Out, and The Black Phone. They’ve more than earned the benefit of…
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As a horror fan, whenever I mention enjoying any specific monster movie, I’ve grown used to having another horror fan pop out jump scare-style to say, “I like slasher movies because they’re realistic. It’s something that could really happen!” If you “just don’t relate” to people facing monsters, films like Renfield (2023) (screenplay by Ryan…
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I’m a big fan of H. P. Lovecraft. His proclivity for esoteric cults, horrors beyond human description, and ancient creatures far older than mankind resonates with me on a deep level, so I’ll watch just about anything adapted from his works. In fact, I’m always on the lookout for great new Lovecraftian horror, so when…
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2023 was a great year for modern takes on classic monsters. For example, Renfield, and The Last Voyage of the Demeter put fun new spins on the classic Dracula story, and The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster was a touching remix of Frankenstein. But in my opinion, one 2023 reimagining stands head and shoulders…
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I love cryptids. When I was a kid, I read books about things like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster all the time, and even now, I’m still a big fan of TV shows like Monsterquest and Destination Truth. So naturally, when I first got wind of Frogman, I was instantly intrigued. Not only did…