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Saturday Night Shorts: Film 276
The tale of Anthony's first day at school.
It's been almost a month since my last film review. For the first time in four years I fell short of my annual goal. Sixteen reviews short to be exact. I even had twelve days off from work and still couldn't bring myself to watch a film. I guess I was burned out. Today I am going to try to get back into the swing of things…
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Charlotte is a young girl with a wild imagination. In her free time, she travels through her apartment building's ventilation ducts, getting herself into all kinds of mischief. One day during a meteor shower, a tiny piece of space material lands in the building and a spider emerges from it. Not knowing its origins, Charlotte takes it home and quickly discovers that it's highly intelligent, growing rapidly, and insatiably hungry.
Let me preface this by saying I absolutely hate spiders…
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"In the year 2022, the international prison system is operated by private corporations. Criminals from all over the world are exploited at a profit. Prisons have become big business."
In the distant future of 2022, Captain J.T. Robbins is sent to prison for murdering one of his commanding officers in the military. He is condemned to a maximum-security complex reserved for inmates deemed too dangerous for the standard international prison system. The sentence? Life. Here, prisoners live under the thumb…
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"From the sky will come the Black Fortress. From the Fortress will come the Slayers to devour the planet of Krull. Then shall a girl of ancient name become queen...she shall choose a king...and together they shall rule the planet, and their son shall rule the galaxy."
The world of Krull is invaded by an alien menace known as The Beast with his army "The Slayers," who quickly spread destruction on a quest to take over the world. With impending…
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31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 35
On an island in Asia, scientists experiment on the body of a terrorist, but the result is a failure. When the government arrives to claim the results, a chain of events leads to a chemical leak that mixes with the rain. The result is an island doomed to a zombie outbreak.
Don't let the title Zombi 3 fool you. This is actually the sequel to Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2, known in America…
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★★★★ Rewatched 31 Oct 2024
31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 34
"There's no need for hate, now, or love."
Citizens of San Francisco become alarmed when they start noticing that people they've known their entire lives have changed. Not physically, but on a personal and emotional level, becoming almost drone-like. Matthew and Elizabeth, who both work for the San Francisco Department of Health and take pride in their work, start to notice the same unsettling pattern, and it’s spreading fast. Worst of all,…
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31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 32
Saturday Night Shorts: Film 266
A father and his young son have a tradition of reading a short horror story before bed. This leads the boy to believe that he sees a monster in his room at night.
The Monster is an incredibly well-done short horror film directed by Neil Stevens. The production value is tremendous, maximizing what can be done in three rooms for an awesome presentation. I've seen a few…
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31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 31
The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs - Joe Bob's Beelzebub Bash - Film 1
Dougie is a naïve young boy who loves video games and the idea of Satan. On Halloween he starts to follow around a silent masked killer who he deems Satan and asks to be it's helper. What he thinks is all fun and games couldn't be further from the truth.
Satan's Little Helper has been on the…
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31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 25
Dani is beckoned to the door of a new house she's renovating by a strange individual. The next day, she's found murdered in a gruesome fashion. It's been almost a year since her twin sister Dani died that night, in what everyone believes was the work of a psychopath. Her twin, Darcy, who is blind and owns an antique shop brimming with macabre objects, reconnects with her ex-brother-in-law to dive deeper into…
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★★★ Rewatched 20 Oct 2024
31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 22
A scientist ships a relic from Brazil back to Chicago's Museum of Natural History. A relic that unleashes an ancient creature in the museum. A homicide detective and another scientist join forces to figure out what is causing the rash of gory killings which all have one thing in common. A missing piece of the brain.
The Relic is one of those late 1990s films that I saw a million times when…
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★★★★½ Rewatched 16 Oct 2024
2,100th Review
31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 19
The Silence of the Lambs is a landmark of psychological thrillers with a twist of horror. What better film to mark my 2,100th centennial review milestone? As part of my ongoing 31 Days of Horror, this film stands out not just as a critical and audience favorite, but as one that reshaped the genre and I've had it pegged for today since I reviewed Braveheart for 2,000.
The plot centers…
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31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 11
Jerusalem's Lot, known to the locals as Salem's Lot, is a quaint small town nestled in the beautiful state of Maine. It's the kind of place where everyone knows each other, and you don’t have to lock your doors at night. The long-vacant Marsten House, perched ominously on the hill, has recently been purchased by two mysterious men from Europe, Barlow and Straker. While Mr. Straker runs an antique shop in town…
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