Category: Horror
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Frankenweenie: Where everyone looks dead, and the dog is.
Frankenweenie – 2012 Directed by Tim Burton Starring Charlie Tahan, Frank Welker, Winona Rider, Catherine O’Hara, Martin Landau, Martin Short, Robert Capron, Atticus Shaffer Screenplay by John August Tim Burton has occupied this strange place in Americana as “macabre for the family.” His mixture of preciousness, precociousness and comedy has been imitated, but not as often as his…
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The Apparition: The only thing we have to fear is bad cinema
The Apparition – 2012 Written and Directed by Todd Lincoln Starring Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton, Juliana Guill, Luke Pasqualino, Suzanne Ford There are lots of dumb aspects to The Apparition: The acting: There are plenty of decent actors in the film. Felton spent the better part of a decade being one of the nemeses of Harry Potter.…
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: An Acceptable Farce
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter – 2012 Director Timur Bekmambetov Cast Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rufus Sewell, Martin Csokas, Alan Tudyk Screenplay Seth Grahame-Smith There is something good to be said for just going for it. In the case of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, we have a concept that is ridiculous beyond measure. The 16th…
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Halloween Gems: Cool Papa E Reviews The Firefly Films Of Rob Zombie
It’s a nearly classic duo of films waiting for a third. Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects have a place in the sickened hearts of cult followers. He had something big on the horizon when he was derailed by the quick but unfulfilled success of the Halloween remake and its dud of a…
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Dark Shadows: Tim Burton is strange, but still knows how to cash in
Dark Shadows – 2012 Director Tim Burton Starring Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Helena Bonham Carter, Jackie Earle Haley, Johnny Lee Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz, Bella Heathcote, Gulliver McGrath, Alice Cooper, Christopher Lee Screenplay Seth Grahame-Smith based on the TV show by Dan Curtis Anyone who’s seen Beetlejuice will instantly recognize a family dynamic demonstrated in the early part…
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Cabin In The Woods: Good work, Zombie arm
Cabin In The Woods – 2012 Director Drew Goddard Starring Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Fran Kanz, Anna Hutchinson, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, Sigourney Weaver Screenplay by Goddard and Joss Whedon Cabin In The Woods is one of the coolest, most original horror stories every made. It’s Toy Story for the genre. All the most remarkable things one could…
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Possession is as good as it gets for it’s kind
The Possession – 2012 Director Ole Bornedal Starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgewick, Natasha Calis, Madison Davenport, Grant Show, Matisyahu, Ella Wade Screenplay Juliet Snowden, Stiles White There is a scene early in the film, Possession, where, with the process already started, older sister Hannah (Davenport) notices her sister, Emily (Calis) acting lethargically while the first-born practices a…
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Silent House gives it away for free
Silent House – 2012 Directed by Chris Kentis, Laura Lau Starring Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Julia Taylor Ross, Haley Murphy, Adam Bennett Written by Laura Lau based on the Uruguayan screenplay by Oscar Estevez Silent Househas a promising premise: a single shot horror film in real-time. The story is that of a young woman named Sarah (Olsen),…
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Piranha 3DD is the best DD movie ever
Piranha 3DD – 2012 Director John Gulager Starring Danielle Panabaker, Matt Bush, David Koechner, Chris Zylka, Katrina Bowden, Gary Busey, Christopher Lloyd, David Hasselhoff Screenplay Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunston, Joel Soisson “Josh cut off his penis because something came out of my vagina.” Piranha 3DD is like the people who arrive at the party when most of the cool…
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