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Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005)

Turn Off The Light And See What Happens.

Filmmaker(s): Mary Lambert

On a prom-night dare, a trio of high school friends chant an incantation, unleashing an evil spirit from the past with deadly consequences.

24 Jan Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005)

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Locked in a Box days the game in horror is a horrible business. Pity the poor filmmaker: she has to have enough formula to give the viewer something to rely on. After all, in a horror film, most of the work is done by the...

Published January 24, 2024

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Tagged: 2000s, f2005, p2005

Phantoms (1998)

For centuries they told us the terror would come from above. We've been looking the wrong way.

Filmmaker(s): Joe Chappelle

Horror

Science Fiction

Thriller

In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.

09 Feb Phantoms (1998)

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Primeval Roles confluence of forces that were at work, when I saw ‘Lawrence of Arabia‘ I was dumbstruck. The sweep of the desert and its lonely complexities mapped thoroughly with the internal landscape this man revealed. Lonely, sexually obsessed but incompetent, determined to press through...

Published February 9, 2024

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Tagged: 1990s, f1998, p2011

Rubber (2010)

Are you TIRED of the expected?

Filmmaker(s): Quentin Dupieux

A group of people gather in the California desert to watch a "film" set in the late 1990s featuring a sentient, homicidal car tire named Robert. The assembled crowd of onlookers watch as Robert becomes obsessed with a beautiful and mysterious woman and goes on a rampage through a desert town.

09 Feb Rubber (2010)

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Erasure have a hard time with films like this. On the one hand, it explicitly deals with concepts that attract me. It is very clever and well enough put together. But there is balance between art meant to affect you and essays about the process....

Published February 9, 2024

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Tagged: 2010s, f2010, p2011

The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

Horror has a face.

Filmmaker(s): Roger Corman

Drama

Horror

A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.

09 Feb The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

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Reds, Tarot Roger Corman, this was simply another garish, cheaply made horror film, after the model of his previous Vincent Price successes. But for the rest of us, it tipped the world into a strange world of mystical influence. The script is simple enough, merging...

Published February 9, 2024

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Tagged: 1960s, f1964, p2011

Red State (2011)

Fear God.

Filmmaker(s): Kevin Smith

Horror

Action

Thriller

Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter Christian fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda.

09 Feb Red State (2011)

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State Shifting you are a filmmaker with one skill only. You know it; you have milked it as much as you can and want to grow. Kevin Smith has one talent only: to create and effectively present a world that is a bit different. The difference...

Published February 9, 2024

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Tagged: 2010s, f2011, p2011

World War Z (2013)

There will come a day when the world we know will end.

Filmmaker(s): Marc Forster

Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

05 Feb World War Z (2013)

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Angry Water understand that the development of this was a mess. What mattered to me were three things done well: The transition from normal life to the human waves was jarringly effective. What I expect is a traditional zombie story. Some explanation and setup is given...

Published February 5, 2024

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Tagged: 2010s, f2013, p2014

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)

Revenge is sweeter than candy.

Filmmaker(s): Tommy Wirkola

Fantasy

Horror

Action

After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches... their past.

05 Feb Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)

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Children's Dreams has been some time since I was exposed to how these things work. A clever writer can start with anything and extend it toward a known formula so that it animates that formula with a new disguise. In this world, the writers are...

Published February 5, 2024

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The House of the Yellow Carpet (1983)

Filmmaker(s): Carlo Lizzani

Thriller

Horror

Franca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of Franca's stepfather. One day, while Antonio is out, a strange man rings saying he wishes to buy the rug. But the man's visit begins a twisted a nightmare.

05 Feb The House of the Yellow Carpet (1983)

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Encounters with Others in One Body the first 4/5s, this is a cheaply done version of a few similar films, where a husband concocts a drama to fool his wife. In this case, it is validate a perceived infatuation with another (albeit deceased) man. But as...

Published February 5, 2024

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Tagged: 1980s, f1983, p2015

I, Frankenstein (2014)

In the battle between good and evil, an immortal holds the key

Filmmaker(s): Stuart Beattie

Horror

Thriller

200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth. But when he finds himself in the middle of a war over the fate of humanity, Adam discovers he holds the key that could destroy humankind.

05 Feb I, Frankenstein (2014)

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Evil Residents are awash in kiddie films that have the battle between good and evil made explicit in armies on each side. We will have to endure this for a while because such embodiment means we can have cinematic combat and reduction of good and...

Published February 5, 2024

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Tagged: 2010s, f2014, p2015

The Color Out of Space (2010)

No one, no one forgets it...

Filmmaker(s): Huan Vu

Science Fiction

Horror

Arkham, 1975: Jonathan Davis' father has disappeared. His tracks lead to Germany, to the Swabian-Franconian Forest where he was stationed after the Second World War. Jonathan sets out to find him and bring him home, but deep in the woods he discovers a dark mystery from the past. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's short novel "The Colour Out of Space".

04 Feb The Color Out of Space (2010)

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Boys and Brown Leaves spooky, slow. Based on a Lovecraft story. The trigger event has a meteorite landing and exhibiting inscrutable properties, diffusing into the air. It is the remnants of a craft. German scientists from the 30s — one of our most enduring stereotypes —...

Published February 4, 2024

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Tagged: 2010s, f2010, p2015