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John’s Horror Corner: A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985), a...
MY CALL: This sequel maintains everything we love about Freddy while delivering a very different (however sloppily told) story. I think it’s a worthy sequel even if not comparable to the...
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John’s Horror Corner: Creepshow (1982), a classic, campy, nostalgic horror...
MY CALL: This is one of the more campy and fun anthologies from the days before anthologies were the “in” thing. Looking for a film that features sea zombies, silly murderous revenge, alien weeds,...
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John’s Horror Corner: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987),...
MY CALL: Featuring a very different setting and more creative kills, this may be the most re-watchable NOES film. The franchise is getting slightly sillier, but it remains eerie and dark. MOVIES LIKE...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Visit (2015), M. Night Shyamalan’s latest twist...
MY CALL: This film is strange, loaded with disarming comic relief, geriatrically creepy, twisted, and doesn’t feel like found footage…all in a good way. The theme would have worked better if rated-R,...
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John’s Horror Corner: Things (1989), bizarre Canuxploitation mutant...
NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW Let’s be clear, there’s a porn star, a bloody foot, an ant monster and a power drill on the DVD cover. NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW Don’t read this...
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John’s Horror Corner: Harbinger Down (2015), the entertaining yet lackluster...
NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW MY CALL: Did I care about the characters? Not at all. Was the creepy, dire atmosphere captured? No. Was it a fun tentacle monster movie?...
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30 Days until Halloween! October Horror Movie Pick #1: Grave Encounters (2011)
I have to point this out. What a great tagline! “They were searching for proof…they found it!” WHAT MAKES THIS A GOOD HALLOWEEN MOVIE? Just because it’s Halloween doesn’t mean all horror movies are...
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John’s Horror Corner: Cooties (2015), an excellently flesh-eating horror...
MY CALL: Fresh, hilarious and smartly scripted, this film was a joy. The gore, humor and story fall shy of Shaun of the Dead, but this horror comedy remains something very impressive. MOVIES LIKE...
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28 Days until Halloween! October Horror Movie Pick #2: The Conjuring (2013),...
WHAT MAKES THIS A GOOD HALLOWEEN MOVIE? Just because it’s Halloween doesn’t mean all horror movies are a good fit. Some fit the October’s mood better than others and I consider The Conjuring to be a...
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15 Days until Halloween! October Suggestion #3: An American Werewolf in...
WHAT MAKES THIS A GOOD HALLOWEEN MOVIE? It’s Halloween! And when we think of Halloween we often think of the classic monsters: Dracula, the Mummy, Frankenstein’s Monster and, of course, the Wolf...
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10 Days until Halloween! October Pick #4: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
WHAT MAKES THIS A GOOD HALLOWEEN MOVIE? Not quite as scary as it used to be but every bit as fun, Wes Craven’s original Nightmare is a creation that no horror fan should be without. It remains...
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John’s Horror Corner: Nothing Left to Fear (2013), a mediocre religious...
LOADS OF SPOILERS LOADS OF SPOILERS LOADS OF SPOILERS LOADS OF SPOILERS LOADS OF SPOILERS LOADS OF SPOILERS MY CALL: Barf! This religious ritual/possession movie will leave you...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Final Girls (2015), an excellent horror satire and...
MY CALL: This film is all about celebrating metamoviedom. Not kills, not gore, not action, but geeky commentary and smart, playful satire. I highly recommend it and would even prescribe it to people...
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3 Days until Halloween! October Pick #5: Trick ‘r Treat (2007)
WHAT MAKES THIS A GOOD HALLOWEEN MOVIE? More like why is this “the” Halloween movie?!?!?! This is 77 minutes of impressively nuanced Halloween anthology goodness with diverse effects and expertly...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Haunting of Morella (1990), a smutty,...
NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW MY CALL: This may not be softcore porn, but it’s absolutely an exploitation film with nothing to offer anyone looking for any form of horror...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Pyramid (2014), death by starving feral Sphinx cats...
MY CALL: This is one of those movies that you “hope” will be good, but isn’t. Maybe it wasn’t the worst thing I’ve seen this month either. I won’t recommend it to anyone looking for a good “scary...
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John’s Horror Corner: Night Angel (1990), the pleasantly gory tale of the...
MY CALL: This is campy 80s horror at its best. Gory and sexualized with a diversity of special effects, zany scenes and plot elements that are melodramatically over-explained…this put a 90 minute...
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John’s Horror Corner: Victor Frankenstein (2015), much more than a monster...
MY CALL: Critics may justly tear it apart for its screaming exposition and limp secondary characters, but ultimately I thought this was spectacular popcorn entertainment and the Ratcliffe-McAvoy...
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John’s Horror Corner: Krampus (2015), a dark Christmas-themed fantasy film by...
MY CALL: This was a really fun movie experience. Not at all scary, hardly even jumpy, and with minimal gore…yet very funny (in the first act), thoroughly entertaining and perpetually delivered with...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Church (1989), yet another haphazard Italian horror...
NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW MY CALL: I wouldn’t call this film a conquest for the genre, but instead just a stop on the tour of ludicrous 80s horror films to be...
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