Chances are pretty good that you’ll be hunkered down in front of a horror film at some point this weekend. So for this week’s Open Thread, I wanted to hear what your Top Five horror films are. I’ll start: 5…
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Arguably the most influential fright flick ever made, Night of the Living Dead is a true masterpiece. Director/cowriter George Romero‘s gruesome and groundbreaking cult classic pioneered the zombie genre of horror movies and spawned a host of sequels, remakes, and…
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With the coming remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, one wonders how today’s attitudes about sex and sexuality won’t completely kill all of the charm and fun that made the original great. In 1970s’ cult films, attitudes seemed to…
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For some inexplicable reason, today, I decided to find the name of, or the movie it came from, of a song that has haunted me for several years. I knew some of the words, most of the melody, and that…
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We are at the point in the year where the major studios rush their summer releases to DVD and Blu-ray just in time for the holiday shopping season to begin. Thus, this week’s titles are dominated by films that reached…
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Woody Allen’s 2016 film Café Society invites you to enjoy a warm fantasy of 1930s’ Hollywood and New York. Ostensibly, you’re there to follow the life and loves of a young New Yorker named Bobby (Jesse Eisenberg) searching for his…
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Abbott and Costello. George Burns and Gracie Allen. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Laurel and Hardy. And on and on and on. These comedy teams of yesteryear have brought endless laughs to audiences across the…
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Following the success of the first two Halloween movies Jamie Lee Curtis had established herself as America’s premiere scream queen. She became the go-to actress for low-budget horror films, and soon found herself starring in the 1980 low-budget affair Terror…
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1984’s Night of the Comet poses a very interesting question: What if the only people left alive in the world were Southern California teenagers? That’s the start in this campy, enjoyable tale of two sisters who must fend off zombie-like…
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