Category: Arts & Entertainment
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Boys From County Hell, or, When Irish Eyes Are Bleeding
The Irish horror comedy that says Lend me ten pounds, and I’ll buy you a drink… of BLOOD!
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Point/Counter-point: Preserving the Mystery
Two tangentially-related tunes arguing about the virtues of being blissfully ignorant
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Oculus, or, Antiques Creepshow
Oculus is Mike Flanagan doing his thing in a story about interior decorating and intense trauma
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Members Only
Two tangentially-related tunes for all the international nasty girls
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Good Boy, or, Every Dog Has His Day of the Dead
Good Boy is a fairly scary and upsetting haunted house movie about a very good dog
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Bone Lake, or, The Odd Couple
I can tell that Bone Lake is doing something right, because it does as much with social anxiety as with violence and gore, but it was still pretty fun
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Dream Warriors, or, One, Two, Eighties Coming For You
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 might’ve been a somewhat cool movie if not for its franchise and its decade
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Under the Skin, or, Black Widow
A striking and unsettling science fiction horror story that makes the most out of a black void and Scarlett Johansson
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Dracula, or, There’s Some Horrors in This House
Some quick thoughts about Hammer’s 1958 classic Horror of Dracula. (Spoilers for a movie from almost 70 years ago)
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Sooner or Later
Two tangentially-related tunes for two dozen other dirty lovers
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The Innocents and the surprising rarity of satisfying ghost stories
My thoughts on the 1961 film The Innocents and how hard it is to find a good old-fashioned haunting
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Reaction Heroes
A simple yet shockingly insightful observation about super-hero inflation and bringing the stakes back into action movies