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How Pet Sematary Changed My Life

In 1989 I was eleven years old and I was not fond of horror movies. I had seen horror movies but they scared me and I didn’t understand why a person would choose to do something that scared them. I didn’t enjoy the sensation of fear and there were things …

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Silent House

I knew very little about this movie before going into the theater tonight. It was playing at the cheap theater by my house which is crazy old and outdated but they sometimes get the movies that either didn’t play at the big multiplexes or only played for a weekend before …

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The Loved Ones

There’s a certain style of movie that tends to bother me. It’s this deliberately tacky, chaotic, nightmarish satire of modern culture. John Waters is a master of it. It’s one of the reasons I disliked the second Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie. It’s also one of the reasons I’ve never been …

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Lake Mungo and Home Movie

I watched two different “found footage” style horror movies within the last week, and they represent how this style of movie can work and can fail. Let’s start with the good. Lake Mungo 2008 – Directed by Joel Anderson Lake Mungo is an Australian movie about a family grieving the …

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The Innkeepers

The Innkeepers – Ti West Something I will never understand is the kind person who proudly proclaims that they never get scared while watching horror movies. Why watch them then? The chief purpose of a horror movie is to scare the audience. A good horror movie scares people. What’s the …

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Cannibal Holocaust

Cannibal Holocaust – Directed by Ruggero Deodato this is what I wrote about Cannibal Holocaust in March of 2007: Well shit. That was kind of fucked up. I knew very little about this movie before watching it tonight. I knew it was controversial and that it was considered very disturbing, …

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

A Nightmare on Elm Street – Directed by Samuel Bayer I just watched the special features on the 2010 Nightmare on Elm Street Bluray. There was an alternate ending that was pretty interesting. I was one of the few supporters of that movie and even though it had some problems, …

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Paranormal Activity 3

Paranormal Activity 3 – directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman There seems to be a portion of the horror going audience that looks down on the Paranormal Activity movies. I’m not entirely sure why this is. I can certainly see where this style of filmmaking doesn’t work for some …

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The Thing (2011)

The Thing (2011) – Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. ::EDIT:: Apparently, according to this interview that a friend showed me, the majority of the effects in this movie were indeed practical effects rather than CGI. So I stand corrected on that. It’s pretty goddamned amazing effects then, because compared …