Category: Horror Features
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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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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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With the recent release of Longlegs—a film that deserves every bit of hype it’s getting—it’s nice to see Nicolas Cage in the limelight again. The actor rose to fame mainly through a swathe of action movies in the late 90s/early 00s (not to mention becoming somewhat of a meme), but as his career has progressed,…
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You’d be hard-pressed to find a horror fan who’s all about made-for-TV movies. Hell, made-for-TV films don’t have a great reputation in any genre, but when they’re horror flicks, they face an additional hurdle. Unless they’re intended for a streaming service (an option that wasn’t around for most of cinematic history), they have to go…
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll probably say it multiple times again: I love vampires. Other than kaiju, they’re my favorite monster species of all time, and one of the best things about them is their versatility. Sure, there are enough Dracula remakes and rip-offs to keep you occupied for what seems like an undead…
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We horror fans have a bit of a love/hate relationship with werewolf movies. On the one hand, werewolves are one of the most recognizable monster species in the genre, and they’ve been a horror staple ever since the heyday of the Universal monsters. But despite that pedigree, even the most hardcore fanatics would be hard-pressed…
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Being the silly, early-to-mid-2000s horror that they are, the Final Destination films don’t exactly have the best reputation. Sure, they’re not classed as good horror films, but they are some of the most entertaining. Personally, I’m a fan of this era of cheesy yet gritty horror; I thrive off the overly dramatic editing, the edgy…
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Recently I had the pleasure to sit down with 25YL staff members Bronson West, Sean Parker, Brendan Jesus, Robert Chipman and Justin Drabek to discuss the Friday the 13th franchise. This was a really fun, in-depth conversation where we talked about the best and worst films from the series, kills, how it compares to other…
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2023 was kind of a weird year for movies. If you only go out to see the big blockbusters, you might’ve been disappointed with 2023’s slate. Sure, there were some real winners last year, but a seemingly disproportionate number of highly anticipated titles failed to win audiences over. It was a pretty big bummer, but…
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If you’re a horror fan, you know the critics don’t always get it right. And I’m not just talking about movies that undergo extreme reappraisals a la The Thing or The Shining. A lot of film critics simply don’t care much for horror, and while that bias against the genre is thankfully waning, it hasn’t…