Last week’s $64 million opening weekend for Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible–The Final Reckoning showed that audiences will still turn out for spy movies. The genre probably hit its zenith back in the late 1960s and early ’70s. James Bond,…
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“No, on second thought let’s not salute Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It is a silly film.” Are you a Baby Boomer male who came of age in the late ’70s? If so, you’ll recall how your place on…
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Few filmmakers are influential enough that their very names become synonymous with the cinematic style their bodies of work present. To this day “Hitchcockian” means flights of movie mystery and nerve-tingling suspense. Sentimental melodramas of basic American values are dubbed…
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As a longtime film fan who is entering “the September of my years,” I’ve come to realize there are some movie-related moments which I’ll never get to experience. Odds are I’ll never watch the lost Lon Chaney silent shocker London…
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Many, many moons ago (October of 2012, to be precise), I wrote an article for this very site listing 12 of the oddest, shoddiest, and least frightening menaces to ever grace the silver screen. From disembodied heads in lab pans…
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Arguably the most beloved animated cult film ever made, Heavy Metal is a cutting-edge anthology inspired by the popular fantasy magazine. The fantastic stories, which revolve around the powers of a mysterious jewel called the Loc-Nar, include a futuristic cab…
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Chh-chh-chh! Dance-dance-dance? My personal favorite of all the Friday the 13th films was 1982’s Friday the 13th: Part III. Originally released in 3D — which afforded viewers in the theater the opportunity to have the film’s thrills (and the occasional…
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Starting life as one half of the exploitation revival flick Grindhouse, this expanded version of Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror concerns a mishap with a bio-weapon on a nearby military base that begins mutating the residents of a small Texas town…
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Think you know all that there is to know about horror movies? Then see if you can match the following taglines to their respective films! 1 – The ultimate in alien terror 2 – They won’t stay dead 3 –…
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There’s nothing wrong with sticking to popular classics like Psycho or A Nightmare on Elm Street, but why not challenge yourself to watch something you may not have seen before this Halloween. Here are my suggestions for ten underrated fright…
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