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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 ...

Details: Created: 20 September 2021; Published: 20 September 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Zombies! Werewolves! Atomic Mutation! Intergalactic Giant Avians! This is how you do it, kids. Get yourself $100,000, come up with an attention-grabbing title for a movie, throw a monster in it, write the script on the quick, give yourself 6-days to shoot the movie (with an editor on the set so ...

Details: Created: 03 September 2021; Published: 03 September 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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As if we needed another reason NOT to drive through the desolate region of America’s Southwest! The Brotherhood of Satan reminds us of all that could (and probably will go wrong) with an idea like that. Come across a car full of dead people? Just keep driving faster! No one is going to be helping ...

Details: Created: 29 August 2021; Published: 29 August 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Endlessly quotable and highly entertaining, a comedy classic has returned to us! A rags to riches story disguised as a romantic comedy? Who doesn’t love that idea?! No one. It was all the rage in the 1980s, which is why Overboard - a romantic comedy which breezes through some pretty ...

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

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“I hate boats. I am not getting on any boats.” One Crazy Summer, for me, is a certified blast from beginning to end. It’s massively underrated and deserves to be applauded on its own merits instead of being compared to its cinematic (and probably more traditional) ...