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Details: Created: 05 October 2021; Published: 05 October 2021; Written by Emily Strong

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“That’s the one thing I’ve learned about clients. Dead ones don’t pay their bills.” Famed scientist and cheesemaker John Hay Forrest has died driving off of a cliff. It seems to be suicide, but the daughter of the noted man, Juliet Forrest (Rachael Ward) suspects something else: murder ...

Details: Created: 01 October 2021; Published: 01 October 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Ending up in a ditch with a flat tire and no spare is just the beginning of Sue Ellen, Patty, Cindy and Rose’s problems in the regional thriller Shallow Grave ...

Details: Created: 30 September 2021; Published: 30 September 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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You can slice 'em and dice 'em any which way you want to, but they simply don't make movies like this anymore! No budget? No problem, when done correctly! Just ask Deke Slater, the man thought responsible for the killings at Tall Grass Country Club ...

Details: Created: 28 September 2021; Published: 28 September 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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“I’m the master of the ghost ship!” Come for the zombie in the Nazi uniform killing random people and stay for the nonstop hilarity as director Bernard Launois gives audiences a wild tasting slice of French horror pie in Devil Story, his first and last horror film. This is a Z-grade movie where ...

Details: Created: 28 September 2021; Published: 28 September 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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The umbrellas. The Flowers. And Mother’s collapse. Every year, it is the same thing. Welcome to the cruel and keyed-in paranoia of Dementia 13. If the headaches brought about by this dysfunctional family don’t get you, the axe murderer just might ...

Details: Created: 26 September 2021; Published: 26 September 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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“Alright, they’re crazy! Isn’t everybody?” We are all crazy. Every one of us are absolutely insane and little separates us from those poor individuals committed due to their uncontrolled impulses. Working with this idea, Alone in the Dark condemns all of society, showing just how ...

Details: Created: 24 September 2021; Published: 24 September 2021; Written by Emily Strong

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“Didn’t you ever need someone?” “All the time.” As director Neil Jordan would describe it, Mona Lisa revolves around the idea of (and I’m paraphrasing here) a man not understanding women. And while the film does indeed center on this theme, Jordan and co-writer, David ...

Details: Created: 24 September 2021; Published: 24 September 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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What’s the secret ingredient to your fantastic meat pies, Auntie Lee? Inquiring minds want to know. Opening with a violent roadside altercation which results in the death of a kindly preacher (Night Patrol‘s Pat Paulsen) with a cross on his car for a hood ornament might not be for everyone, but ...

Details: Created: 23 September 2021; Published: 23 September 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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"I can't help it, Joe! I just gotta have it!" These girls are nothing but trouble! Smokin’ weed, sellin’ stolen cars, and knockin’ men over the head until they are unconscious and, you know, mostly left for dead. And it is all because of the greasy tactics of Joe (Timothy Farell) and his notorious needle ...

Details: Created: 23 September 2021; Published: 23 September 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before!“ There was a time when those words - no, that entire opening ...