Category: Horror Movies
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District 9 (2009)
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Read more: District 9 (2009)As action flicks go, District 9 excels beyond measure, but leave it to a genre film with B-movie splatter gore sensibility to create an immersive experience that generates more human pathos than a hundred overcooked dramas about the holocaust or racism.
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Subtext Cinema: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
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Read more: Subtext Cinema: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)My sociology degree tells me that director intent doesn’t matter.
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Bubba Ho Tep
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Read more: Bubba Ho TepElvis lives, but his pecker does not. I read some dumb-ass (non-Ruthless) review where the person wrote that Campbell “lovingly portrays Presley.” Hogwash I say! Bruce ripped old Elvis down to the bone, and then rebuilt him as a far superior caricature.
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Audition
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Read more: AuditionMy girlfriend and I agreed that this was the best of the three movies we watched last night. Now, the other two movies were Kung Pow; Enter the Fist and Death to Smoochy, but they could have been much better movies and Audition would still have been the best of the three.
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Psycho
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Read more: PsychoAn early—perhaps, only—highlight in Resident Evil: Code Veronica features a palace sitting below a private residence atop a hill on a southern ocean island facility overrun by the bioengineered monstrosities it helped create. That gothic castle looms in the background, and as you, the player, forge an eventual path toward the perched building, the eerie…
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The Thing (1982)
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Read more: The Thing (1982)Kurt Russell and his hat burn several aliens dead.
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The Wicker Man (1973)
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Read more: The Wicker Man (1973)Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) is a good chap. A good cop, if you must know, and one of the realm’s most dedicated men of principle. He’s the sort who will cite chapter and verse of the legal code, but only after bringing a congregation to its feet in what amounts to the isle’s most piously…
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A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge
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Read more: A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s RevengeThough my previous in-depth takes on movies such as Little Monsters, Beethoven, and Baby’s Day Out have provoked responses ranging from “imaginative,” to “a bit of a stretch,” to “outright pants-shitting lunacy,” there is not a movie buff worth their salt who disagrees that A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge is the…
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Ruthless Recommendations- 29 Horror Movies for Children available for streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime, or YouTube
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Read more: Ruthless Recommendations- 29 Horror Movies for Children available for streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime, or YouTubeI may have a skewed sense of what is child-appropriate, but these movies do not contain any great amount of violence or sexual content, and as such, might qualify for being spooky, but not traumatizing. Children do want to be scared sometimes, and in the right conditions and pre-requisites, there can even be a benefit…
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Haunted Mansion
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Read more: Haunted Mansion“Haunted Mansion” – Disney Scary. The Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland was my favorite ride when I was a kid. I loved it so much that I would listen to my 78-rpm story-book record over and over until I fell asleep at night. And don’t think that I’ve grown out of it. I own Haunted…