Category: Updates
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Ode to the unsung Slashers (The Hills Run Red)
Over the last decade or so, the concept of a slasher movie has become pretty broken. I’ve discussed in earlier posts before that when it comes to the slasher-genre people are quick to point out its flaws. In the 80’s there was a huge slasher boom with studios trying to cash in on the popularity…
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Nine Eternities in Doom!)
Well when I do one thing it makes me think of another and sooner or later you have yourself a theme. We’re going to be showcasing another Vincent Price movie to kick off September and boy do I have a great one. The 1970’s would see a lot of changes in the horror genre and…
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The Last Man on Earth
Awhile I ago I was writing about the zombie genre through the last hundred years or so in film, when I got to Night of the Living Dead, I explained that Romero’s inspiration for the Ghouls that devoured the flesh of the living was derived from Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend. A lot of…
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Cronos
There is a lot of horror out there, and I mean a lot. No scratch that. There is a lot of cinema out there. The sheer number of films that get made a year is staggering. Especially if you consider every film that gets released, not just the stuff that makes it to theatres. We…
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