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2017 Horror Supernatural

Rings

From the “why now?” file, we have the third installment in a horror franchise that has been dormant since 2005. I haven’t seen the first two movies since they first came out, but I remember thinking that The Ring is quite good. The Ring 2 is awful but is totally worth it for the deer […]

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2017 Horror Supernatural

It

               It is my most anticipated film of the year. Yeah, Last Jedi, I know. But back when I was a kid and the world had not yet crushed my spirit, I wanted to be a writer and I idolized Stephen King. Starting in third grade, I read everything that he wrote. I read books […]

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2017 Comedy Horror

Happy Death Day

               I love horror movies and I particularly love slasher movies. When I was a kid, slasher movies dominated the horror genre, but they are pretty rare these days. In the 3+ years that I have been going to the movies every week, I have not seen a single slasher movie in a theater as […]

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2017 Horror Science Fiction

Flatliners

               Flatliners is the kind of remake that I’m not, in theory, opposed to seeing. While the 1990 film is decent, there is ample room for improvement. The original has a strong concept, but did little with it and was overly serious (even though the sight of Kiefer Sutherland repeatedly getting his ass kicked by […]

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2017 Horror Supernatural

Friend Request

               Friend Request is a German production that was filmed in South Africa in 2014 and has been available on DVD in Europe for the last couple of years. If that isn’t a recipe for a quality theatrical release, then I don’t know what is. At the same time that this was being made, there […]