Aside from Orson Welles and Jean Rollin, no filmmaker cut such a strong visual image right out of the gate like David Lynch.
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With both Halloween and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre receiving newfangled releases, behold 1980’s slasher Prom Night.
With both Halloween and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre receiving newfangled releases, behold 1980’s slasher Prom Night.
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Of all the mega-franchises, Godzilla’s has been the most secure despite the myriad potholes it has faced.
Of all the mega-franchises, Godzilla’s has been the most secure despite the myriad potholes it has faced.
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Blu-ray review: Mr. Majestyk
Somewhere between the simmering racism in Billy Jack and the juiced-in hick mobsters of Walking Tall lives Mr. Majestyk.
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Blu-ray review: Only Lovers Left Alive
As ancient as the vampire genre is, there always seems to be something fresh that can be derived from it.
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Blu-ray review: The Sacrament
Six films into his career, Ti West has proven to be the best and smartest guy in the horror game.
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Love Streams, newly released on Blu-ray and DVD by Criterion Collection, is a soulful, tragio-joyous amalgamation of Cassavetes’ entire universe.
Love Streams, newly released on Blu-ray and DVD by Criterion Collection, is a soulful, tragio-joyous amalgamation of Cassavetes’ entire universe.
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Day of the Dead
By the time 1985 rolled around, Romero had made one other Dead film: the brilliant Dawn of the Dead. Other countries, especially Italy and Spain, turned zombie movies into virtual cash machines and zombies, for the first time, were everywhere. So there was great anticipation for Day of the Dead, Romero’s third film in what […]
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The Lords of Salem
The story is pretty slight. One third of a popular radio team in Salem, Mass., Heidi Hawthorne (Sheri Moon Zombie) becomes affected by strange visions and mysterious ailments after listening to a song that is delivered anonymously to her radio station by a group called the Lords. As these things turn out, the song is […]
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Seconds
Seconds tells the story of Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph), a terminally unsatisfied and bored executive whose familiar life has grown stale. Lately, he has been in communication with a supposedly deceased friend who promises him a chance at a new life. Taking the plunge, Hamilton wanders into a shadowy corporate world of identity transplantation in […]