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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
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One Thing I Like About One Battle After Another
One Battle After Another is full of outstanding performances and virtuosic, genuinely daring filmmaking. I just wish more of it had connected with me.
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One Thing I Like About Dead of Winter
Almost certainly the only review of the Emma Thompson thriller that compares it to Paddington