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John’s Horror Corner: Dread (2009), beautifully made yet difficult to watch
MY CALL: The After Dark Horrorfest breathes cinematic life into a 30 year old Clive Barker story in this difficult-to-watch film about obsession, fear and psychological torture. MORE MOVIES LIKE...
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John’s Horror Corner: Head of the Family (1996), a delightfully tasteless...
MY CALL: Colorful characters, sleazy humor and a silly plot make for a fun and delightfully tasteless B-horror comedy. MORE MOVIES LIKE Head of the Family: Hideous! (1997), Puppet Master (1989),...
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Smug dragons, barrel battles and one arrow killing two orcs. The Desolation of Smaug is proof that Peter Jackson has course corrected the series and given it some urgency and emotional heft. The...
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The 2013 Random Awards: Celebrating the Good, Bad and Good Bad of Cinema.
Hello all. Mark here. I’ve already unleashed my best of 2013 but here is my overly long wrap up of 2013. The awards are aplenty and they cover copious amounts of film genres. Some are good. Some are...
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The Wolf of Wall Street: Excess Perfected
The Wolf of Wall Street is grandiose absurdity told by a director at the top of his game. Wolf does not celebrate the villains but shows how ambitious and ridiculous the circumstances were. It is the...
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Ninja II: Shadow of a Tear (2013), redeeming the flawed original with...
MY CALL: Ninja (2009) was VERY entertaining but VERY flawed. This sequel strongly sets right and continues the franchise with crisper and more brutal fights, a better story and none of the...
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John’s Horror Corner: Order of the Ram (2013), a short film hiding a great idea
MY CALL: An unoriginal British film hinting at a VERY interesting idea that I’d like to see realized in a feature length film. MORE LIKE THIS: This film contains elements and potential that smack...
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A certified bro’s perspective on Beautiful Creatures (2013)
MY CALL: Carrie meets Titanic in this angsty supernatural high school love story. There’s just something about teenagers talking about destiny that makes me angry. MORE FROM “a certified bro”: Try...
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John’s Horror Corner: Haunt (2013), unoriginal but recommendable for...
MY CALL: Loads of plot holes and an unoriginal story…yet, I swear, this is an enjoyable worthwhile haunting film due to excellent direction, production and character development. MORE MOVIES LIKE...
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John’s Horror Corner: Nurse 3D (2013), a stylishly culty exploitative delight
MY CALL: This film is well-executed, often cheesy, stylishly produced, gory, exploitative cult film fun. MOVIES LIKE Nurse 3D: There are a few movies like this that come to mind for different...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Killer Eye (1999), an erotic horror gone horribly...
MY CALL: The horrible erotic horror story of a horny mutant eyeball from the 8th dimension…AWFUL! MOVIES LIKE The Killer Eye: I haven’t accidentally stumbled across such a raunchy movie since They...
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John’s Horror Corner: Haunter (2013), a “reverse haunting” mingling teen...
MY CALL: To an adult horrorhound this may be more interesting than satisfying; teen angst meets PG-13 family-friendly horror and cleverly surreal storytelling in this highly original film. MORE...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Haunting of Helena (2013), a dark fairy tale about...
MY CALL: This movie was good, but the key word here is creepy. Good old-fashioned creepy storytelling done well with an excellent creepy atmosphere. MORE MOVIES LIKE The Haunting of Helena:...
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Lovelace (2013), the story of Deep Throat and the destruction of Linda Boreman
MY CALL: AMAZING acting and crushingly real character transformations make Lovelace a great film worthy of a bigger release than it received. MOVIES LIKE Lovelace: The People versus Larry Flint...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Unholy (1988), demon seductress versus Catholicism
MY CALL: 20 great gory good-versus-evil minutes numbed by a stagnant 75 minute middle. See this flick, but exercise your fast forward function. MORE MOVIES LIKE The Unholy: Want to see the unholy...
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John’s Horror Corner: Grabbers (2012), evil blood-chugging space tentacles...
MY CALL: More fun than a drunk panty raid full of tentacles…okay, that probably didn’t make any sense. It has evil blood-chugging space tentacles and a sense of humor like Shaun of the Dead. So...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Stuff (1985), a social commentary told by a...
This movie cover reminds me of the scene when the parents come home in The Gate (1987)…but they’re not really the parents. MY CALL: Unintentionally hilarious and lush with social commentary, this...
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John’s Horror Corner: Chopping Mall (1986), a crazy melee of killer robots...
MY CALL: There’s nothing iconic about this bad 80s sci-fi/horror and I’m not saying it should be on your “must see list.” But this has everything I miss about the 80s; it’s so awful and cheesy and...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Woods (2006), an R-rated witch movie for young adults
MY CALL: Overall this movie failed at being interesting, scary or creepy, and it hardly maintained any sense of atmosphere or suspense at all. Another weak witch flick for young adults (despite the...
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John’s Old School Horror Corner: C. H. U. D. (1984), cannibalistic humanoid...
MY CALL: This throwback is slow-paced (until the fun-filled third act), not at all scary, and doesn’t pack a particularly gory punch, but it is fun and cheesy nonetheless and should be on every...
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