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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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Contagion

Best part about Contagion: stupid Gwyneth Paltrow dies right at the beginning. YAY! Worst part: they kept showing her in flashbacks all through the movie. BOO! Second best part: When they autopsied her brain and flipped her scalp up over her face. Second worst part: It started off not being …

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Salem’s Lot

Salem’s Lot – Directed by Tobe Hooper Dude. Fuck that movie fifty times in the face. I was a little kid living in England when I saw the Salem’s Lot TV movie and it scared the ever loving shit out of me. It wasn’t even a particularly good movie but …

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Death Race 2000

Death Race 2000 – Directed by Paul Bartel Death Race 2000 is a fantastic movie. It’s exciting, it’s dark, it’s brutally violent  and sexually deviant and it’s awesome. There’s a heavy handed commentary on our lust for violence while completely and shamelessly indulging it as well. That’s fine by me. I …

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Carriers

(FYI, this should be a mostly spoiler free review) In 1978 Stephen King published what many consider to be his best and most important novel, The Stand. It followed the survivors of a pandemic superflu (nicknamed Captain Trips) that killed 99.9 percent of the human race as they divide up …

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Zombies

With everyone on the internet talking to much about Robocop lately (seriously, what’s up with that people?) I can’t help but think about other things I watched as a kid that affected me well into adulthood. It’s pretty clear that, at least in my case, the entertainment that I was …