Category: Film
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After ten films, a crossover, a reboot, and an upcoming television series, you’d think every avenue in the Friday the 13th franchise had been thoroughly exhausted. Honestly, finding any originality in the slasher genre is difficult. However, on rare occasions, the horror gods favor us with something special. Last weekend, The Boston Underground Film Festival…
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What’s the movie you’ve watched more than any other? For me, it’s The Devil’s Rejects. On the surface, that may seem odd to pick due to its graphic nature and pleasantly unpleasant leads (who weave the line of protagonist and antagonist). When I was growing up, we would take one family vacation a year, and…
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What’s your reaction when you hear that an upcoming horror movie is going to be rated PG-13? If you’re like most genre fans, that kind of news most likely makes your anticipation for the film plummet. You probably start to think that the studio has watered down the violence and the scares just so they…
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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’ve been a huge fan of the Ghostbusters franchise ever since I was a little kid. I love the original two movies and Ghostbusters: Afterlife (although I never saw the remake), I watched the animated series back in the day, and I even had the “real-life” Ghostbusters appear at my birthday party one year. So…
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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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I’ve been aching to see Late Night with the Devil for a while now. I first got wind of the film when it was making its rounds on the festival circuit last year, and the positive buzz it garnered made it an absolute must-watch for me. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to catch it at any…
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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…