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Brad Pitt’s Horror Movie ‘Cutting Class’ Is So Bad It’s Hysterical
Remember when Brad Pitt made an ’80s teen slasher movie? Despite the potential embarrassment a question like that brings, Pitt…
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Review: Wes Anderson Tome Tries Too Hard to Mimic the Man Himself
The moment I realized Wes Anderson had become a major figure in American film was when I met a partygoer…
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Tobe Hooper’s ‘Funhouse’ – A Trip You’ll Never Forget
This year should have been the 98th annual county fair that takes place in my state. While some have never…
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Landmark ‘Dead of Night’ Still Haunting 75 Years Later
You can tell if a movie is genuinely a classic by how many works were influenced by it. After all,…
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How ‘Dead & Buried’ Got Overshadowed by Its Own Marketing Campaign
The poster and trailer for Gary Sherman’s “Dead & Buried” is more iconic than the film itself, and that’s a…
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Why ‘The Dark Half’ Captures Stephen King at His Confessional Best
Stephen King’s “The Dark Half” novel addressed the multifaceted nature of being a horror writer – specifically, the question of…
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Why Genre Mashup ‘The Cell’ Still Thrills Us 20 Years Later
Twenty years ago, the once independent New Line Cinema (now owned by Warner Brothers) made expensive art movies for mainstream…
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Ahoy! Why ‘Cutthroat Island’ Isn’t the ’90s Shipwreck We Were Told
As we look back on 1995 and the cinematic buried treasure it left us, it’s time to give overdue praise…
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Unsolved Mystery: Why ‘Young Sherlock Holmes’ Never Became a Classic
Barry Levinson’s “Young Sherlock Holmes,” a prequel story about the legendary detective’s student years, never graduated to true cult movie…
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Halloween 6: When the Iconic Horror Franchise Went the Full MCU
Joe Chappelle’s “Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers” had the kind of deeply troubled production that made the behind-the-scenes drama…
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