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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 It was playing at the cheap theater by my house which is crazy old and outdated but they sometimes get the movies that either didn’t play at the big multiplexes or only played for a weekend before …

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Alien

I’m gonna have to pick up a copy of Alien on Blu-Ray. I haven’t really sat down and watched it all the way through in probably a good ten or twelve years. I bet it looks pretty decent in HD. Plus, I gotta get ready for Prometheus. For me, it’s …

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Martha Marcy May Marlene and Take Shelter

I’m writing about these movies together for two reasons. The first is because I watched them almost back to back. The other is that they’re both about paranoia and mental illness. One is due to external influences and the other is internal. Both feature brilliant performances by their leads, and …

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Grave Encounters

There’s something that people say that bothers me. They say basically the same thing about comedies and horror movies, which is “As long as it scares me/makes me laugh, that’s good enough”. No. Fucking no. That’s not good enough. I will agree that in order for a horror movie to …

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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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The Woman in Black

There were two specific defining events in my life that directly and intensely influenced what can effectively frighten me as an adult. The first was a reoccurring thing that happened around when I was four or five years old. My father was greatly amused by the fact that there were …