tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67896351889924985282012-03-01T11:12:17.617-05:00A place that discusses classic and contemporary horror films as well as horror related topics.Rose Herediahttps://profiles.google.com/102073894389338769232noreply@blogger.comBlogger641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789635188992498528.post-46825774270657487232012-02-24T17:26:00.001-05:002012-02-24T17:26:10.265-05:00

Directed by: Matt Reeves Release Date: 2010 Finally, I watched the remake of the original Swedish film, Let the Right One In, which was released in 2008. As a skeptic of American foreign film remakes, I started watching this incarnation with much scrutiny, making comparisons from the original. Even though I was able to enjoy this based on its own merits, there were some aspects of the

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Airdates: September 4, 2011 - May 20, 2002 As a Whedonite, I had to give this show a chance. The first two seasons were a tad slow to get into even though there were some good episodes. But this middle season was absolutely stellar! Below I'll go through my ten favorite episodes of the season. Beware for those who have not seen these episodes - there are spoilers afoot. "That Vision Thing" -

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When I watched The Walking Dead on AMC two years ago, I was fascinated with the zombie show (because I love zombies) but more so to discover the show was based on a graphic novel by Robert Kirkman. Last year, (2011), I finally decided to pick up the graphic novel and explore a new medium I don't usually read. After I devoured Volume 1: Days Gone Bye, I was hooked. Reading a graphic novel

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Directed by: James Watkins Release Date: 2012 As I write this, I'm extremely disappointed after coming back from the theater. Two things before I begin this entry. 1- This is the first movie I saw in the theater as of 2012 since December 2011 (I watch on average 12-13 movies a year in the theater so I choose them wisely. My movie ticket was $14! It's not cheap to watch movies in New York

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Directed by: John Gulager Release Date: 2005 Campy, over the top, gory, and so many money shots (think blood on the lens), this movie started in the right spirit but went downhill along the way. As the first script penned by Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, I thought I would enjoy this picture but sadly, I did not. The middle dragged and by the time it was over, I barely cared

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Directed by: Marcus Dunstan Release Date: 2009 Upon the recommendation from a friend, I took this movie (high in demand, I might add) out of the library. And wow! What a movie. This movie tones down the torture porn genre started by the Saw movies and creates a new movie villian. As Marcus Dunstan's directorial debut, his background in the horror genre started on the film Feast with

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Directed by: Ruben Fleischer Release Date: 2009 With a fantastic blend of comedy and horror, this flick had me cringing and laughing at the same time. Jesse Eisenerg (whose career I've been following since Roger Dodger) starts us off with a few rules: #1: Cardio, #2:The Double Tap, #3: Beware of the Bathroom, and so many more throughout the movie. We never learn any of the protagonists'

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Directed by: Wes Craven Release Date: 2010 What a complete waste of time. I'm having less and less patience with the man who created my favorite horror villain, Freddy Krueger. Having read awful reviews of this last year when it premiered in the theaters, I waited a year until my local library was carrying the DVD. And I'm so glad I waited. A few things to mention before I

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Directed by: John Carpenter Release Date: 1978 Still as potent and scary now as it was in the seventies, Carpenter's addition to the horror genre was top notch and spectacular. Never being a fan of this picture because I was more of a Freddy girl, after more than three viewings, Wes Craven's Nightmare is fighting with this horror picture in my heart. Everyone knows the

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Directed by: Rick Rosenthal Release Date: 2002 I watched this on Halloween and I had a blast! Check the cast: Busta Rhymes, Tyra Banks, Sean Patrick Thomas (Cruel Intentions, Save the Last Dance), Katee Sackoff (pre-BSG fame), Thomas Ian Nichols (American Pie movies), and our lead, Bianca Kajlich (Rules of Engagement). The first twenty minutes are throwaway because the film starts with

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Directed by: Michael Dougherty Release Date: 2007 What an underrated horror picture this was! Talk about being way under the radar. I know friends who are horror friends who I'm sure haven't seen this picture yet. I watched this on Halloween. By myself. After watching Halloween: Resurrection and the creepy theme music. Needless to say, I had to turn every light on in every room

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Directed by: Steve Miner Release Date: 1998 A rewatch for me since I actually saw this on the big screen, I was thoroughly impressed with the story and pacing of this installment in the series. Additionally, this film was a throwback to the horror landscape in the late nineties as well as the actors starring in the picture. From the top of the dome: Michelle Williams, LL Cool J,

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In lieu of my two year blog anniversary, I thought I'd share my Top Ten Horror Flicks. This is not one of those "best top ten lists" but my own list of movies that I appreciate, admire, adore, and abhor (in delight!). 10. Cabin Fever When I caught this a year or so after release, I fell in love with Eli Roth's humor and homage to old horror pictures with a good blend of gore (love me

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In the spirit of the Halloween season, my friends and I went to a haunted house on Friday night. Of the many there are this month, we attended one of the slightly cheaper houses - Nightmare: Fairy Tales in the Lower East Side on Suffolk Street. Having experienced different incarnations of this haunted house (I also did the vampire one; see my review here), I wondered what the creator,

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Directed by: Joss Whedon Air Date: December 14, 1999 Since it's Halloween and all, I've been watching my favorite Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes that are creepy and scary. And "Hush," is by far one of the creepiest episodes by far. For Buffy aficionados, you know this episode is so great because of all the shit going down. Riley and Buffy aren't officially dating yet, Willow meets

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Directed by: Tom Six Release Date: 2009 After hearing different responses to this film and how friends could not continue watching, I had to see this spectacle for myself. Guess what friends? I was  - dare I utter the "b" word? - BORED! Yeah, I said it. I was frakkin' bored to tears. This movie was an exercise in pure spectacle and shock factor. No shock for me. Briefly, the plot. Two

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I just watched the pilot of the new show from the creators of Glee, Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy, American Horror Story. As a horror fanatic, I was excited at the idea of a horror serial on television. The mere thought of being frightened and petrified every week was a horror fan's dream come true. With the new zombie show, The Walking Dead, I'm sure a few brave networks (FX), decided to give

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Directed by: Rodrigo Cortes Release Date: 2010 What a movie! This isn't the conventional creepy crawly slasher or monster picture.  Ryan Reynolds carries the movie completely stuck in a coffin buried underground. The scariest aspect of this ninety minute movie is imagining yourself in Paul Conroy's shoes, as he's trying to figure out why he's in this box and how he's going to get

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Directed by: Ti West Release Date: 2009 First thing's first - where's the cabin? Maybe the title should have been changed but besides this huge omission, I was completely involved with this movie. It is widely known on the internet horror community that Ti West publicly disowned this movie due to post-production issues with the company. Even though West states the movie isn't his

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Directed by: Eli Roth Release Date: 2003 Five college students on the brink of independence and entering adulthood decide to rent a cabin in the woods for the summer. In typical horror picture fashion, shit goes crazy. The question that most horror fans ask themselves when they read the aforementioned sentence is, "How is the execution of this story differ from other horror pictures with

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Director by: James Gunn Release Date: 2006 As my first introduction to the brilliance (and sexiness) that is Nathan Fillion, I absolutely had a blast watching this picture in the theater. Imagine this slug-fest in 3D? The plot is very much inspired by The Blob and Invasion of the Body Snatchers which makes this picture that much enjoyable for horror fans alike. A creature in a pod

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Directed by: John CarpenterRelease Date: 1982 When I started writing notes about movies, this was the first movie I reviewed which was back in 2002. Nine years later, the movie is still one of my favorite suspenseful horror films (top ten) as well as one of the best in makeup effects in the genre. Kurt Russell stars as R.J. MacReady, the reluctant hero in our tale. Set in Antarctica, a wolf dog

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Directed by: Joe DaneRelease Date: 1978The campy movie produced by Roger Corman as a homage to Jaws, is everything a horror fun would expect: cheesy effects, wooden acting, never taking itself seriously, and anything else you can think of. From the opening sequence where one of the victims yells out to her companion, "Last one in is a rotten egg," the audience can anticipate more than

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Directed by: Roman PolanskiRelease Date: 1968Each year at a different free summer movie event in NYC, this movie provides the thrills every time. I had the opportunity to revisit Roman Polanski's first English picture last summer at the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival. A brief summary for those who haven't seen the movie: Mia Farrow stars as Rosemary, the ingenue who marries Guy Woodhouse

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Directed by: Alexandre AjaRelease Date: 2010Last summer's 3D extravaganza started with a cheeky homage to Jaws with none other than the lead actor, Richard Dreyfuss wearing the same wardrobe from said picture. I kept saying, "We need a bigger boat" in my head throughout the first death scene. Having never seen the original Joe Dante version, I'm interested to see the similarities between the two

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Directed by: M. Night ShyamalanRelease Date: 1999Still holding the place as M. Night Shyamalan's Best work to date, The Sixth Sense is still as suspenseful and thrilling from beginning to end. Watching this after knowing the twist only makes the viewer pay attention to the acute attentiveness Shyamalan took to include clues for the end result (using red) in every frame of the movie. This movie

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Directed by: Chuck RussellRelease Date: 1988A remake of the original 1950s version, this modern take on the classic was gore-tastic, campy, and a watchable picture. The basics of the original stay the same - alien crater lands and wreaks havoc in small town except - there’s a catch. Science and man are involved. I’ll leave it at that not to ruin the plot for anybody. The special effects in this

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Directed by: Roman PolanskiRelease Date: 1965As a Roman Polanski and Wes Craven fan (this movie is referenced in A Nightmare on Elm Street), I decided to take the plunge and watch this picture. Upon viewing, I was glad I watched but wasn't very entertained. Catherine Deneuve, the leading star, plays Carole, the ingenue who is frightened by sex and anything involving sex. Roman Polanski, a

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Directed by: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. Release Date: 1958 This marks the first time I’ve ever seen a Steve McQueen movie (I know, don’t judge me) and he was so dashing and handsome as Steve Andrews, the teenager who discovers the blob of this monster that creates a crater in the Earth. Having not been familiar with many fifties movies, I enjoyed the score exponentially and the old fashioned

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directed by: wes cravenrelease date: 1994Ten years after the first film premiered in theaters (and made New Line millions at the box office), Wes Craven was asked to return and close the franchise with his own take on Freddy Krueger’s character. The whole story was very meta - which made the movie that much more creepy because we were with Heather Langenkamp (who was playing herself) and not

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directed by: wes cravenrelease date: 2011This film starts with a bang - the meta metaness of the film within the film within the film worked well even though this went on for a hair longer than necessary.  The new faces to be sliced and diced were pleasant (Anna Paquin, Kristen Bell, et. al) and fun. As soon as the first scene started, I was sucked in. The story this time around revolves around 

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directed by: wes cravenrelease date: 1996Ah yes, the original movie that started it all. Drew Barrymore (the most notable star in the picture at the time of the release) plays Casey, the naive student that gets some horror trivia wrong but that doesn’t matter, because she is eventually “gutted like a fish” as Ghostface promises her. Thus the iconic opening scene of new slasher films began in

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directed by: ti westrelease date: 2009Based on true events regarding satanic cult rituals in the eighties, this film is about those events. Very slow but concise in execution, the director played up the suspense for seventy-five percent of the movie (or even more) but this drawn out narrative proved to be successful for this die-hard horror film fanatic. The story is simple – down and out girl,

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directed by: wes cravenrelease date: 1997Some horror sequels, okay, let’s be honest, most horror sequels are subpar to the original movie. I don’t think this can be said for the second installment in this franchise though. Plot summary goes like this: Sidney is in college, dating Derek (Jerry O’Connell), has a roommate, Hallie (Elise Neal), and life is swell until…the opening sequence with Jada

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directed by: Vincenzo natalirelease date: 2010The whole time while watching this movie I kept thinking, “I want to watch The Fly with Jeff Goldblum because it’s way more engaging than this drivel!” Premise of the movie is simple: scientific experiment gone bad – but not necessarily Frankenstein bad just bad in affecting everyone around it bad. This is only generalizing because I wouldn’t want to

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Directed by: wes craven release date: 2000 Because Scream 4 will be released in a week, I needed to refresh myself with the characters and the story. Watching this reminded me why this installment in the series is the most forgettable with me and most fans. Before going any further, let’s discuss plot summary, shall we? Stab 3, the latest film based on the Woodsboro murders is in production

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Scream 4 is premiering in theaters in two weeks!! Can you tell I'm excited? In lieu of the newest installment in the series, my friends and I are watching the prior sequels to refresh our memories. And also, for your viewing pleasure, the trailer to Scream 4. Enjoy! Scream 4

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directed by: james wanrelease date: 2011From the minds that created the Saw series and Paranormal Activity, comes a new haunted tale involving a child. As most horror movies begin, the audience is introduced with a picture perfect (nearly anyway) suburban family with two boys and an infant girl. When Dalton, one of the oldest of the two, falls down while exploring the attic, the audience knows

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directed by: George mihalkarelease date: 1981From the back of the DVD cover: “Twenty years after a Valentine’s Day tragedy, a small town prepares for its annual holiday dance. When a box of candy arrives containing an eerie warning and a blood-soaked heart, the townsfolk realize that this Valentine’s Day romance is dead…and so are they.” How clever of them, aren’t they? Having watched the

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Tonight, I had the privilege of watching Teller’s play, “Play Dead” in Greenwich Village.  Because we couldn’t take any pictures during the performance (it would reveal all the secrets and then no one would want to come!), I took pictures of the inside. Below is the only good picture from the interior of the theater. And that’s where my picture taking stopped. This show is filled with thrills,

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directed by: tom hollandrelease date: 1985“Apparently your generation doesn't want to see vampire killers anymore, nor vampires either. All they want to see is slashers running around in ski masks, hacking up young virgins,” says Peter Vincent, the fired host from the show, Fright Night on late night TV to Charlie Brewster who tries to recruit Vincent to help kill the vampire who has moved in

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Directed by: Rick Rosenthal Release Date: 1981 Written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill, the sequel in the Halloween franchise provided the thrills and the screams without the blood. Starting from where the first film left off, we see Laurie Strode tell the little ones to go off to find help. Dr. Loomis comes to the rescue, shoots Michael, the bullets pushing him to land

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Directed by: Stanley Kubrick Release Date: 1980 Being a fan of the original incarnation of this story by Stephen King, I was already a skeptic. When I watched this film ten years ago, I hated it because the film was nothing like the book. When the mini-series of the story was broadcasted in 1997, I appreciated its close interpretation of the story. Recently, I re-watched this and realized

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directed by: wes cravenrelease date: 1984Last night, I watched my favorite horror film of all time on the big screen at the NYC Horror Film Festival with an audience for the first time ever. The experience was thrilling, exciting, and energetic. The fact that Freddy Krueger was actually in the building made the evening that more electrifying for me. Prior to the start of the film, Robert Englund

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The New York City Horror Film Festival is back and ready for action! Being an alumni of the film festival for four years from 2004 - 2007  (I wasn’t asked to volunteer once staff changes were made after), I must say that I was always delighted to see the new faces, the new movies and shorts that were festering the whole year for us horror fans to consume. Additionally, I like to see who receives

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AMC’s new show, The Walking Dead has been a huge success for being the first ever zombie television series in history! Well, I take that back. Apparently, in the UK, a show called Dead Set premiered in which only five episodes were filmed in the form of a reality show like Big Brother. This year, IFC showed all five episodes this past Halloween weekend. Now a part of their on-air schedule, the

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Directed by:Robert hiltzik Release Date:1983 When I first discovered the Internet a decade or so ago, I read a list of “must see” horror films and Sleepaway Camp was at the top of this list. Having absolutely no idea what I was in for, I rented this movie and definitely did not expect the ending I saw. Briefly, for those interested in a basic plot summary with no spoilers: A boy, girl,

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Directed by: Fred waltonrelease date: 1986Bought on a whim and having never heard of the film prior to watching it, the suspense was built up masterfully and was successful in execution of the plot and story. The story goes like this: a bunch of college students are asked to visit their classmate, Muffy St. John, whose father has a house on an island. Yes, they are on an isolated island. There

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Directed by:Tommy WirkolaRelease Date:2009I watched this Norwegian film a few months back after a friend mentioned how much she enjoyed it. The premise revolves around Nazi zombies that live in the snow. The victims are very American Pie (with subtitles, of course) in which there are some memorable lines. However, the film as a whole, didn’t work for me. The death scenes were funny and gruesome;

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Directed by: Stephen KingRelease Date: 1986 Stephen King’s first and last directorial debut was atrocious. Based on his short story, “Trucks,” this incarnation of the tale is supposedly campy and tongue in cheek. However, I couldn’t appreciate whatever elements of “comedy horror” that are present in this feature. Emilio Estevez stars as the cute cook of a truck stop who along with a group of

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Directed by: Wes Craven Release Date: 2005 I saw this was on IFC one night when I DVR’ed the movie. I remember when the film was released in the theaters but there wasn’t much buzz about it. The film stars some actors that were popular at the time and some that have since become household names: Christina Ricci, Jesse Eisenberg (even more of a star now with The Social Network), Joshua

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The director of my favorite horror movie of all time, A Nightmare on Elm Street, has come back from…wherever he was. According to the Internet Movie Database, the last thing he directed (apart from a short excerpt in Paris Je T’aime) was the forgettable Red Eye with Cillian Murphy and Rachel McAdams. The premise for My Soul to Take is interesting enough but I’m wary because I see elements of the

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Directed by: Sidney J. FurieRelease Date: 1983 Based on a book by of the same title by Frank DeFelitta, this story is about a woman who is repeatedly sexually assaulted by an unseen force. Filled with lots of gratuitous T&A and repetitious shots in which people seen in the foreground and background are both clear, this feature's only salient feature is the score when Carla Moran is attacked. The

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Directed by: William Friedkin Release Date: 2006 A story about a lonely woman who takes in a disturbed man who sucks her into his insanity. Wonderfully acted by Michael Shannon, he embodied the psyche of this man from the moment he was introduced to the last shot of the film. Why isn’t Michael Shannon a household name yet? Friedkin (The Exorcist) did a phenomenal job directing Shannon and

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Directed by: Samuel BayerRelease Date: 2010 Alright, I went and saw this opening night and I must say, I wasn’t completely dissatisfied with the outcome. Without revealing too many spoilers, this remake delves more into Freddy’s background and also his crimes. As for thrill factor, not so much. The deaths in the original make the deaths in this movie cringe. Insipid, bland, and forgettable ways

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Directed by: John Fawcett Release Date: 2000 Ginger and Brigitte Fitzgerald are high school juniors in the town of Bailey Downs.  There is a beast mutilating dogs and the town is all fussy about the grisly deaths but yet, no one really does anything about the situation. Ginger finally becomes a woman and then is attacked by the beast.  Needless to say, her appetite becomes insatiable for

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Directed by: Eli Roth Release Date: 2007 Part two continues in which we see Paxton again on the train but I refuse to divulge plot details so as not to ruin the film for anybody. This sequel completely did the original justice and this is a rarity, especially in the horror genre. Eli tones down the gore in this installment which provides the film to stand on its own merits while

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Directed by: Tomas Alfredson Release Date: 2008 Because Hollywood doesn’t know how to be original anymore, this film is being remade and will be tentatively be released this year in October.  Before even attempting to watch the original, please, fellow horror fans, watch this movie instead. Oskar meets Eli (pronounced Elee), the female vampire that lives next door to him.  He is

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Directed by: Oren Palin Release date: 2009 After spending two years in oblivion, the film Paranormal Activity was released into theaters.  But the new wave of marketing that will soon be mainstream in the coming years was by internet “Demand it!” options for lovers of the film to have it screened in their city and of course, by hearsay. The hype in the media surrounding this movie

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On Hallow’s Eve, I had the pleasure of rounding up a group of my friends and participating in a 90 minute walking tour about Peter Stuyvesant and the many haunted places in the East Village. We started at the St. Mark’s church on tenth street and 2nd avenue. Our tour guide was entertaining and informative.  I forget her name but she made the walk that worthwhile in the wet weather.  She talked

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Directed by: Jeremy Haft Release Date: 2005 Tamara tried to be the Carrie for the modern audience but was very unsuccessful.  Additionally, Carrie’s powers were inherent versus Tamara gaining power from a witchcraft book but I’m getting ahead of myself. Tamara is a homely girl who lives with a negligible alcoholic father and reads books on witchcraft.  She’s a great writer who’s in love

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Directed by: Clive Barker Release Date: 1987 After claiming to be a horror fan for so many years, I finally rented this film and watched it.  I must say, it spooked and freaked me out.  Clive Barker is a sick man and I want to be Just Like Him! The story is suspenseful by setting up the portrait of a couple moving into an old house.  Then we are introduced to Julia’s (the wife)

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Directed by: John Erick Dowdle Release Date: 2008 As is the theme of the current Hollywood climate, this horror film was the remake of the original Spanish film named [REC].  At the time, I wasn’t privy to any details about the movie other than it was shot in Blair Witch fashion.  Watching the remake after the original didn’t leave me satisfied.  Something got lost in translation even

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Recently, my friends and I went to a haunted house. The haunted house was at the CSV Cultural Center. The theme this year was Vampires. Last year, it was Nightmares and prior to that, it was a Haunted Maze all at the same location. The coolest thing about this year was that the story started with a tour of the Museum of Vampyric Artifacts. This museum is open during the day for its

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