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Details: Created: 16 February 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Well, well, well, what do we have here? Scream Team Releasing drops a surprise release this month proving that it is never too late or too early to celebrate the Halloween season. 10/31 Part 2, with Malvolia, The Queen of Screams (Jennifer Nangle) once again hosting the beginning and ending bookend pieces in this ...

Details: Created: 19 January 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Kitty’s back on the cell block! Woot! Woot! Let the sweat-dripping orgies begin! Violence in a Women’s Prison, originally released in 1982, is a damn ugly exploitation flick. Even when you lower the bar when it comes to Women in Prison flicks, this ...

Details: Created: 01 November 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Interior: DARK, GIN-SOAKED MOVIE THEATER CAMERA - SLOW PAN LEFT TO RIGHT. It was a dark and stormy night. Flickering frames of light pierced the smoky darkness, casting shadows on the tattered silver screen. The projector’s jittery rays revealed the forlorn faces of a checked-out audience while the stormy night’s deafening ...

Details: Created: 05 February 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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You want swampy southern gothic shenanigans in your entertainment? Swamp Thing, as produced by DC Universe, has all your needs covered. DC Universe really screwed up. I mean, royally. Swamp Thing, as a web series, is dark and disturbing ...

Details: Created: 28 May 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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You say want sex and violence? Well, the Masked Mutilator has EXACTLY what you are looking for. Just be respectful because this house parent will definitely kick your ass ...

Details: Created: 04 November 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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There are few directors out there that have the distinction of making sequels to hit films that not only reach the quality of the original, but surpass it. James Cameron is one of them. He is an auteur that never rested on his laurels, always coming at things with a fresh take for a follow up and never settling for ...

Details: Created: 02 February 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Boom boom acka-lacka lacka boom! During the late 1980s and the early 1990s there was a boom in Dinosaur-themed entertainment. Thanks to Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, these massive beasts were stomping into sitcoms

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Details: Created: 22 January 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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There couldn’t possibly be a creepier basement in the history of Horror films! Lucio Fulci's House by the Cemetery is re-opened once again thanks to Blue Underground. ...

Details: Created: 25 January 2020; Written by Christopher Symonds

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With Disney’s current dominance at the box office, it is difficult to believe it, but they weren’t doing so well (theatrically) in the latter half of the 1980s. They had experienced, especially in the animation realm, a series of costly underperforming features and the sure thing that used ...

Details: Created: 18 October 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

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The road trip through the zombie apocalypse continues with Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland: Double Tap, which comes some ten years after his Zombieland caught the front end of the zombie resurgence in the ‘90s and rode it into undead lore. ...

Details: Created: 21 January 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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The heat is BACK on! Long before Detectives Mike Lowery (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) hit the streets in pursuit of crime and criminal activity there was plainclothes Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) bringing his rather chaotic (and hilarious) brand of law and order to the colorful streets of ...

Details: Created: 13 January 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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The Golem's not headed your way, Willie. The Golem has arrived!A beloved animated project - with some fans still clamoring for a live action movie version - is back on store shelves! Batman Beyond, containing all three seasons of the cult classic and its movie finale, has landed on ...

Details: Created: 20 January 2020; Written by Christopher Symonds

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The last decade of the 20th Century in movies saw the pinnacle of star-powered excess-driven extravaganzas peak with Kevin Costner’s Waterworld. One of the biggest stars in the world, at the time, he could write his own ticket, dictate all terms, and will anything he wanted into existence. That ...

Details: Created: 11 October 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Rarely does conventional wisdom hold in Hollywood. Particularly with regards to the notion that less is more and that simplicity is superior to elaborate embellishment. Take, for instance Jerry Bruckheimer, the titan of TNT, who subscribes to the theory that if a candle is needed ...

Details: Created: 15 January 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Watching wickie Ephraim Winslow, who is already having visions of mermaids and tentacled monsters, fly into a momentary fit of rage, grab a one-eyed seagull, and then beat it religiously against a cistern until it is beyond dead might be one of the most memorable scenes in The Lighthouse, a ...

Details: Created: 09 January 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Finally. With this Collector’s Edition from Scream Factory, a long-requested top 10 horror film arrives on blu-ray with a cleaned-up transfer and NEW supplemental items. ...

Details: Created: 15 January 2020; Written by Christopher Symonds

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2004’s Hellboy was a well-received if unspectacular performer at the box office, and the studios were not in a hurry to spend on another one. Undeterred, Guillermo Del Toro pressed on pitching various iterations of what could be the follow up. Oh, and since he had some time to kill ...

Details: Created: 09 January 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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A tiny horse. One mad scientist. And a really big wrench. These are only part of the gonzo territory of Ernest R. Schoedsack and Merrian C. Cooper’s shrink ray-centered tale of B-grade science and terror. Dr. Cyclops and the obsession with shrinking things lives on! The heroes ...

Details: Created: 13 January 2020; Written by Michelle Duy

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Movies like Miracles from Heaven and Heaven Is for Real tell allegedly true stories of divine intervention. The latest such movie is 2019’s Breakthrough. About four years ago in Missouri, teenager John Smith (Marcel Ruiz) fell through the ice of a frozen lake. After 15 minutes underwater he clinically died. But when ...

Details: Created: 30 December 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Satanism and switchblade violins make quite the combination in this blast from the past! Luigi Cozzi’s Paganini Horror probably shouldn’t exist. Sure, sure, I mean, the film does have some merit thanks to its wicked premise, but its execution - amounting to a bunch of screaming (mostly) female rock and ...

Details: Created: 12 January 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Somewhere in Colts Neck, New Jersey there sets a horse farm owned by Bruce Springsteen. And on those 378 acres there is a two-story barn which, on certain nights, doubles as a performance area for Springsteen, his wife Patti Scialfa, and some close friends. The voices coming out from ...

Details: Created: 28 December 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Murders in the Rue Morgue was a gift to Bela Lugosi. After being axed from Frankenstein, Universal Pictures’ President Carl Laemmle Jr. offered him the role of the lunatic scientist who abducts women and then injects them with the blood of his pet ape, Erik (performed by Charles Gemora). Lugosi, not willing ...

Details: Created: 13 January 2020; Written by Christopher Symonds

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Tenacious is the first word that comes to mind when thinking of Sylvester Stallone. He was once one of the highest-paid and most successful actors in cinema’s history, and, like most, has had his fair share of career highlights and—lets be kind—lulls. ...

Details: Created: 04 October 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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Joker was frightening proposition for this reviewer, who has been a lifelong Batman fanatic. Firstly because it presumed to make the focus of its narrative on one of the greatest antagonists in storytelling history, without the hero; secondly because it wasn’t going to stick with ...

Details: Created: 27 December 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Teen Titans, GO! The pseudo-anime style. The jokes. And, man, the storylines. Teen Titans has it all! This cartoon series - with a cast of superhero characters that included Robin, Beast Boy, Starfire, Cyborg, and Raven - kicked all sorts of ass during its original three year run. Now, thanks to ...

Details: Created: 05 September 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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When Stephen King’s doorstop novel was adapted for TV in the 90’s, it accomplished what shouldn’t have been possible. King’s novel is a behemoth tome, with dozens of characters, and was one of his truly graphic forays into the horror genre for ...

Details: Created: 26 December 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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More thrills and even more chills! Karloff. Lugosi. Rathbone. And Vincent Price in his film debut. What’s not to love about these names or their film legacies? Absolutely nothing at all and the proof is Scream Factory's new 2K scanned release of the films that make up the ...

Details: Created: 20 December 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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There are touchstone pictures that transcend any generation, no matter when they were born, that fall under the MUST WATCH category. They are masterpieces. Films like Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre, (I know! Bogart nut) it doesn’t matter. If you are a film aficionado, a general viewer, a ...

Details: Created: 22 December 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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And this is why you do NOT overdo it with peanut butter. Thank God we can all learn from Michael’s (Matthew Mackay) messy misadventures with a lot of gooey crap and way too much peanut butter. If David Lynch made a children’s movie, it is no stretch of the imagination to suggest that it ...

Details: Created: 20 September 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Polish the silver, set out the good china, and put a kettle on. The Crawleys are back! Fans of the popular PBS television series that aired for six seasons can once again spend a little time at the sprawling English countryside estate as the film version of Downton Abbey finally hits theaters. And even ...

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