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‘Nightmares’ Is Creepy, Campy ’80s Fun
Horror films aren’t often cited as nostalgia generators, period pieces or movies that bottle up a specific time and place.…
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Yes, Both ‘Chinatown’ and ‘The Two Jakes’ Are Screen Classics
Some cinema textbooks list two unlikely works representing the post-Watergate/post-Flower Power Generation at its most cynical: “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”…
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How Brian De Palma’s ‘The Fury’ Overcomes Its Sizable Flaws
Brian De Palma’s “The Fury” was a transitional film for the famed director, both in terms of his career trajectory…
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The Undeniable Reason ‘Clue’ Became a Cult Classic
The board game “Clue” goes all the way back to the 1940s when it was branded “Cluedo” oversees and presented…
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‘Pump Up the Volume’ – Let the Kids Speak
Allan Moyle’s 1990 cult hit, “Pump Up the Volume” is about teen rebellion, making it akin with most other films…
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How ’12 Monkeys’ Directly Ties to Our Current Pandemic
When the Coronavirus initially began to spread, it made many consider how fiction has been warning us of such a…
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Dismiss ‘Exorcist III’ at Your Own Peril
“The Exorcist III” begins in Washington, D.C., with a priest walking around Georgetown, stopping to observe a steep staircase. These…
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How ‘The Tenant’ Captured a Disgraced Auteur’s Mindset
A few years after I graduated from college, I found myself living in a what seemed like a nice apartment…
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Why ‘American Psycho’ Doesn’t Want Our Love or Pity
Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel, “American Psycho,” begins with “Abandon all ye who enter here,” as it appears as graffiti…
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‘Altered States’ Remains Ahead of Its Time – 40 Years Later
Ken Russell’s “Altered States” begins with a close-up of a shirtless William Hurt, wires sticking out of his hair and…
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