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John’s Horror Corner: Deadly Friend (1986), an 80s-modern teenage...
MY CALL: This playful creation-gone-wrong film by a young Wes Craven brings back a wonderful 80s nostalgia to this lifetime horror lover. Just enough zany gore, silly scenarios and a wack-tastic...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Returned (2013), a perfect zombie movie that...
MY CALL: A perfect zombie movie that doesn’t at all feel like a “zombie” movie in the best possible way. Shift your expectations appropriately away from gory horror to a very human, relationship-driven...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Monkey’s Paw (2013), a cautionary tale warning us...
MY CALL: My greatest cautionary advice would be to skip this cautionary tale and watch something else instead. After all, this theme has been executed much better in the past. WHAT TO WATCH INSTEAD OF...
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John’s Horror Corner: Killer Mermaid (2014), a promising micro-budget movie...
MY CALL: Although suffering from a slow pace and over-exposition, this was a promising little micro-budget movie by a filmmaker early in his career. After seeing this man-eating water...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014), a creepy horror...
MY CALL: This film came out of nowhere and blew away viewer expectations by bringing us smart characters, a creepiness that developed with the story, and a not-so color by numbers plot. Very good...
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John’s Horror Corner: The ABCs of Death 2 (2014), and a guide to its short...
MY CALL: Only die hard gore and horror anthology fans should even consider this schizophrenic mix of wildly inane short films. Overall this is nothing special. But I’ll bet you could make one Hell...
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John’s Horror Corner presents Strong Opinions: on the Poltergeist (2015)...
Two rather related horror franchises have recently been gaining traction in the movie rumor mills: Poltergeist and Paranormal Activity. Now, Poltergeist (1982) and Poltergeist II (1986) stand as...
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15 images for 15 years of horror: some of the greatest, goriest, most...
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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Trailer Talk: The Void, an unfinished Lovecraftian horror labor of love that...
So, there’s a new concept trailer for a horror movie that is so fresh you won’t even find it on IMDB yet from the writer/director team Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie, the guys who made Manborg...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Sacrament (2014), with an excellent mid-movie...
Did Ti West seriously just sit back and let the marketers put a spoiler on the movie poster!?!?! “Live as one. DIE as one.” MY CALL: Very much a mixed bag. The ending…so terrible…the cult leader’s...
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John’s Horror Corner: The House at the End of Time (2013), a cerebral house...
MY CALL: A cerebral house movie that bends time, genres, reality and expectations. Venezuela’s #1 thriller of all time is truly a winner. MOVIES LIKE The House at the End of Time: I’ve seen my...
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Housebound (2014), a dark New Zealand horror comedy that just may be the...
MY CALL: A dark New Zealand horror comedy that just may be the hidden gem you’ve been looking for. MORE MOVIES LIKE Housebound: Dead Alive (1992), although more extreme in all aspects, captured...
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John’s Horror Corner: Mine Games (2012), a B-movie that surely makes an...
Let’s talk about misleading movie posters, shall we? Misleading movie poster #1: Movie is called Mine Games. The poster has a picture of a cabin in the woods. REALLY? MY CALL: This B-movie makes an...
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The Best Moments of one of the Worst Years in Horror: looking back 20 years...
There are great horror films (e.g., Saw, The Conjuring), there are typically color-by-numbers trope-rich sequels (e.g., A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise) and there are zany, gory, low budget...
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The Damned (2013), a solid premise and great atmosphere that fails to deliver...
MY CALL: A solid premise and great atmosphere that fails to deliver an effective possession movie. Despite some good performances and a decent ending, we are not completely reimbursed for the...
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Trailer Talk: Other Halves, about a strange dating app that causes strange...
Other Halves features Mercedes Manning (Strictly Sexual, Zipper) and Lauren Lakis (Hybrids, Gun Woman) as the developers of a revolutionary new dating app called Other Halves. On the night before the...
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John’s Horror Corner: It Follows (2015), entrancing and unsettling, this...
MY CALL: Entrancing and unsettling, this gritty timeless film serves as a powerful cautionary metaphor to the consequences of unprotected sex. Beautifully executed and a unique experience; quite an...
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“That Awkward Moment” in Horror: Part 1: Classic Horror, Sexuality and Dating
Horror is a genre rich in recycled concepts, cookie-cutter plots and trope-y character archetypes. But if you wind things back to the classics, there was a time when horror was doing things for the...
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The MFF Podcast #6: The Best Moments in Horror since 2000
Proudly sponsored by the audiobook company Audible, your new MFF podcast episode is here! We hope you enjoyed our previous episode on The Best Worst Movie Monsters and Horror Villains! This week the...
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John’s Horror Corner: Absentia (2011), a quietly scary adult fable melding...
MY CALL: This minimalist, quietly scary adult fable melds the Billy Goats Gruff with a hauntingly melancholy atmosphere. The budget is low, but the film does not rely on effects as characters and...
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