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The MFF Podcast #113: Elise, her Demons and the Insidious Franchise
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John’s Horror Corner: Jason X (2001), a wonderfully bad movie featuring a...
MY CALL: This is bad in all the ways I like. Despite ignoring almost everything that ever mattered in the franchise, this was gory, had good pacing and energy, funny and clever death scenes, and was...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Alien Factor (1978), a goofy sci-horror B-movie...
MY CALL: Really ambitious, yet really bad. Honestly, as bad as it is, I was also sort of impressed by the ambition behind it. MORE MOVIES LIKE The Alien Factor: Perhaps Alien Predators (1985),...
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The MFF Podcast #114: Office Horror, Mayhem (2017) & The Belko Experiment (2016)
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The MFF Podcast #115: Bram Stoker’s Dracula
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15 Images for 15 Years of Horror, Part 3 (2002-2016): some of the greatest,...
Greetings, horrorounds! We spend so much of our time complaining about re-used, recycled, unoriginal, tired-out horror tropes and stories and stale archetypal horror character roles presented by...
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The MFF Podcast #117: Event Horizon, Hellraiser in Space, and wrestling Graboids
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John’s Horror Corner: Because Reasons (2017), Independent Short Film Review.
MY CALL: This lower budget short opens splendidly, but then middles and closes with blaring financial weaknesses. However, the good that I saw has piqued my interest. MORE Indie Reviews: Here at MFF...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Dunwich Horror (1970), an early Lovecraftian...
MY CALL: An early Lovecraftian adaptation that packs less punch, but rather nostalgia as I recount the subsequent films it clearly influenced. MORE MOVIES LIKE The Dunwich Horror: For more movie...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Ritual (2017), a great Netflix Original creature...
MY CALL: This film really kept me on my toes. It never leads where you’d expect, but always tends to satisfy with its dark atmosphere and the mysterious evil force in the woods. MORE MOVIES LIKE The...
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John’s Horror Corner: Hatchet II (2010), an intestine-strangling,...
MY CALL: Not holding a candle to the former glory of its predecessor, this sequel offers a redeemingly gory third act after a rather boring first hour. MOVIES LIKE Hatchet II: Of course see the first...
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John’s Horror Corner: Hatchet III (2013), Kane Hodder returns as Crowley in...
MY CALL: Perhaps redeeming the franchise for the previous sequel, and matching the former glory of part 1! Oh, and sooooooooooo wonderfully, deliciously, splatteringly gory!!!! MOVIES LIKE Hatchet...
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John’s Horror Corner: Veronica (2017), an underwhelming Spanish film based on...
MY CALL: Incredibly derivative and unoriginal—yes, even in the context of the horror genre in this day and age. This just felt like a watered down Insidious (2010-2017) film and I’m shocked that Placo...
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John’s Horror Corner: Heartless (2018), Independent Short Film Review.
MY CALL: Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tell-Tale Heart” meets American Psycho (2000) and Mayhem (2017) in this very promising gory office horror short film. MORE Indie Reviews by MFF: We occasionally do...
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John’s Horror Corner: Hellraiser X: Judgment (2018), an inspired yet...
MY CALL: Great ideas do not necessarily make great films. Great ideas, awful execution. I mean… it’s passable as an almost interesting bad horror film if you’ve never seen a Hellraiser film. MORE...
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The MFF Podcast #123: The Ritual, scenic Swedish hiking and the Norse Jötunn...
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John’s Horror Corner: Victor Crowley (2017), Kane Hodder returns for the gory...
MY CALL: My least favorite of the franchise—and it pains me to say it. But there is still much gory fun to be had in the second half of the movie even if it fails to measure up to its lower-budgeted...
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John’s Horror Corner: Razorback (1984), a nostalgic giant Australian killer...
MY CALL: More satisfying in its classic 80s nostalgia and animatronic monster, than actually “good.” MOVIES LIKE Razorback: For more Australian horror try Wolf Creek (2005), The Howling III:...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Strangeness (1985), a bad tentacle monster movie...
MY CALL: A very, very, very boring tentacle monster movie. MOVIES LIKE The Strangeness: For more tentacle monster movies, please consider The Boogens (1981), The Kindred (1987), Wicked City (1987),...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Creature Below (2016, aka The Dark Below), a...
MY CALL: A perfectly serviceable bad movie that really tries to be good, and fails. Nothing special here. You won’t miss anything if you just move on. (also released as The Dark Below). MOVIES LIKE...
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