Movie Review: "The Mutilator" (1984)

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Movie: "The Mutilator"

Director: Buddy Cooper and John Douglass
Year: 1984
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 26 minutes

A college student named Ed and his friends go to Ed's father's beach house to clean it and close it up for winter...and plan to have a fun weekend while they do it. When they arrive, Ed's drunk father is lying in wait to murder them all.

Movie Review: "Bad Times at the El Royale" (2018)

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Movie: "Bad Times at the El Royale"

Director: Drew Goddard
Year: 2018
Rating: R
Running Time: 2 hours, 21 minutes

The lives of several strangers intersect at the El Royale hotel on the border of California and Nevada, resulting in bad times for everyone.

Movie Review: "The House that Dripped Blood" (1971)

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Movie: "The House that Dripped Blood"

Director: Peter Duffell
Year: 1971
Rating: PG
Running Time: 1 hour, 42 minutes

Multiple stories about all of the deaths that surround a single country manor in England that may be more related than they seem.

Movie Review: "Starry Eyes" (2014)

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Movie: "Starry Eyes"

Director: Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer
Year: 2014
Rating: NR
Running Time: 1 hour, 38 minutes

An aspiring actress desperately wants to make it in the movie business and learns she must be willing to do anything to make sure that happens.

Movie Review: "In the Mouth of Madness" (1994)

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Movie: "In the Mouth of Madness"

Director: John Carpenter
Year: 1994
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 35 minutes

An insurance investigator is tasked with finding a missing horror author for the publishing agency his company insures. As he searches for this author, he gets pulled deeper and deeper into his bizarre world.

Movie Review: "The Evil Dead" (1981)

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Movie: "The Evil Dead"

Director: Sam Raimi
Year: 1981
Rating: NC-17
Running Time: 1 hour, 25 minutes

A group of college kids heads to a secluded cabin for a weekend of fun and relaxation. However, the cabin is surrounded by evil forces. When the group inadvertently plays a tape that has a demon incantation from 'The Book of the Dead,' it unleashes the book's evil upon them.

Movie Review: "Beautiful Boy" (2018)

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Movie: "Beautiful Boy"

Director: Felix Van Groeningen
Year: 2018
Rating: R
Running Time: 2 hours, 0 minutes

The story of the bond between a father and his meth-addicted son and the struggles they face on the road to recovery.

Movie Review: "Zombi 2" (1979)

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Movie: "Zombi 2" / "Zombie"

Director: Lucio Fulci
Year: 1979
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 31 minutes

A woman named Anne and a reporter named Peter West look for Anne's missing father when his boat turns up in New York under mysterious circumstances. It leads them and two strangers to a small island in the Caribbean that is overrun by zombies.

Movie Review: Universal Monster Movies Retrospective

Think back to a time, long ago, before the Dark Universe failed, and before Brendan Fraser was forced to fight a CGI version of The Rock. Way, way back to the 1930's, when Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff reigned supreme, coming alive on the big screen to terrify your dreams as "children of the night." The original Universal monster movies have provided the basis for what we know as the horror genre today. In the spirit of Halloween, we decided to watch and review many of these films to see where and how some of these iconic characters created creeps and scares lo those many years ago.

Movie Review: "Black Belly of the Tarantula" (1971)

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Movie: "Black Belly of the Tarantula"

Director: Paolo Cavara
Year: 1971
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 29 minutes

A police inspector investigates a series of murders where each of the victims had been paralyzed with a needle before being gutted.

Movie Review: "The Wife" (2018)

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Movie: "The Wife"

Director: Björn Runge
Year: 2018
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 40 minutes

When writer Joe Castleman wins the Nobel prize in literature, he and his wife Joan and their son David travel to Stockholm where a pushy biographer's digging opens wounds of the past and causes Joan to reflect on the events that led them to Stockholm.

Movie Review: "StageFright" (1987)

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Movie: "StageFright"

Director: Michele Soavi
Year: 1987
Rating: UR
Running Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes

A group of theater actors gets locked in an auditorium during a rehearsal with an escaped homicidal psychopath begins a murder spree, slaughtering them one by one.

Movie Review: "Halloween" (2018)

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Movie: "Halloween"

Director: David Gordon Green
Year: 2018
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 46 minutes

Laurie Strode has spent the last 40 years preparing for the night Michael Myers would escape from his institution to kill once again. Halloween 2018 proves to be that night.

Movie Review: "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama" (1988)

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Movie: "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama"

Director: David DeCoteau
Year: 1988
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 20 minutes

Two sorority pledges and three horny nerds in a hazing ritual are tasked with stealing a trophy from the local bowling alley. In the process, the group accidentally releases an evil imp who proceeds to use black magic to torment and eventually kill them.

Movie Review: "The Hate U Give" (2018)

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Movie: "The Hate U Give"

Director: George Tillman Jr.
Year: 2018
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 2 hours, 12 minutes

The Garden Heights community must deal with the aftermath of an officer-involved shooting that left an unarmed African American teenager dead and the girl he was with debating whether or not to speak out about what she witnessed or stay silent.

Movie Review: "Uncle Sam" (1996)

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Movie: "Uncle Sam"

Director: William Lustig
Year: 1996
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 29 minutes

A soldier killed by friendly fire in Operation Desert Storm has his body returned to his hometown. After he is buried, he comes back to life to take vengeance on those who act in an unpatriotic manner.

Movie Review: "Blood Rage" (1987)

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Movie: "Blood Rage"

Director: John Grissmer
Year: 1987
Rating: NR
Running Time: 1 hour, 22 minutes

A deranged young man resumes a killing spree after the twin brother he pinned a murder on years before escapes from a mental institution in the hopes he can frame his brother again and get away with killing one more time.

Movie Review: "Widows" (2018)

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Movie: "Widows"

Director: Steve McQueen
Year: 2018
Rating: R
Running Time: 2 hours, 9 minutes

When her husband Harry is killed in a robbery gone wrong, Veronica Rawlings is forced into committing a crime to get back the $2 million her husband stole from a dangerous politician/gangster during their fatal botched heist.

Movie Review: "Cabin Fever" (2002)

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Movie: "Cabin Fever"

Director: Eli Roth
Year: 2002
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 33 minutes

A group of college kids heads up to a remote cabin for a weekend of raucous debauchery. Their fun is cut short when one of them gets infected by a flesh-eating virus, leaving the others wondering how to help their friend without getting sick themselves.

Movie Review: "Wolfen" (1981)

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Movie: "Wolfen"

Director: Michael Wadleigh
Year: 1981
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 55 minutes

The murder of a wealthy developer and his wife ignites a frantic police investigation. As Detective Dewey Wilson investigates, more deaths are uncovered, but it starts to seem that the murderer isn't really human and may even have a supernatural origin.

Movie Review: "The Prowler" (1981)

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Movie: "The Prowler"

Director: Joseph Zito
Year: 1981
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 29 minutes

When a soldier's girlfriend refuses to wait for him while he is off fighting in WWII, he returns from the war looking to murder his former lover and whoever she is with. Now, decades later, he returns to the same town to resume his murdering spree.

Movie Review: "The Old Man & the Gun" (2018)

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Movie: "The Old Man and the Gun"

Director: David Lowery
Year: 2018
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 1 hour, 33 minutes

Forrest Tucker is a bank robber and a senior citizen. He pulls off a string of robberies and evades capture, all while courting a woman he recently met.

Movie Review: "First Man" (2018)

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Movie: "First Man"

Director: Damien Chazelle
Year: 2018
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 2 hours, 21 minutes

A biography about the life of Neil Armstrong and how he became the first person to walk on the moon.

Movie Review: "Rabid" (1977)

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Movie: "Rabid"

Director: David Cronenberg
Year: 1977
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 31 minutes

After receiving experimental reconstructive surgery, a woman named Rose develops a mutation and starts to crave human blood. Her victims turn into rabid balls of rage that spread their disease to other hosts who survive their attacks.

Movie Review: "Rust Creek" (2018)

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Movie: "Rust Creek"

Director: Jen McGowan
Year: 2018
Rating: NR
Running Time: 1 hour, 48 minutes

When a college student on her way to a job interview in Washington D.C. is led astray by her GPS, she finds herself in the backwoods of Kentucky fighting for her life against two assailants who were looking to have fun at her expense.

Movie Review: "Basket Case" (1982)

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Movie: "Basket Case"

Director: Frank Henenlotter
Year: 1982
Rating: NR
Running Time: 1 hour, 31 minutes

A man named Duane and his physically deformed brother Belial take revenge on those who have wronged them in the past.

Movie Review: "The Fog" (1980) vs. "The Fog" (2005)

Today, we are here with another installment in our series, FEATURE FILM FACE-OFF! In this series, we take two movies and pit them against each other in a battle for the ages! We break down each film and see which one will be the winner.

Back in 1980, John Carpenter directed a little movie called "The Fog." It was not a critically acclaimed film, and it was not a smash hit, but was a modest success and has become a bit of a cult classic. 25 years later in 2005, director Rupert Wainwright decided to release his version of "The Fog." With better technology at his disposal, he figured he could make a newer, sharper looking horror film than Carpenter's low budget feature. Carpenter has managed to outdo an original film with his own remake in the past ("The Thing"), so can Wainwright outdo Carpenter at his own game? Let's take a look at this Feature Film Face-Off: "The Fog" (1980) versus "The Fog" (2005).

Movie Review: "Inferno" (1980)

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Movie: "Inferno"

Director: Dario Argento
Year: 1980
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 47 minutes

A woman living in New York reads an old book about the Three Mothers, who are evil witches that live in three different cities: one in Greighberg, one in Rome, and one in New York City, where the evilest Mother resides. The Mothers don't like this information getting out and are ready to kill anyone who knows it.

Movie Review: "Excision" (2012)

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Movie: "Excision"

Director: Richard Bates Jr.
Year: 2012
Rating: NR
Running Time: 1 hour, 21 minutes

An unstable teen who aspires to be a surgeon falls deeper and deeper into self-delusion.

Movie Review: "Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween" (2018)

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Movie: "Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween"

Director: Ari Sandel
Year: 2018
Rating: PG
Running Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes

When two teens find an old R.L. Stein book, they open and unwittingly release an evil dummy named Slappy, who then proceeds to bring Halloween to life to wreak havoc on their small town.

Movie Review: "Demon Wind" (1990)

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Movie: "Demon Wind"

Director: Charles Philip Moore
Year: 1990
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 36 minutes

A man named Cory and a group of his friends get together at Cory's old family cottage so he can investigate the mysterious death of his grandparents. Once there, they discover that the place has supernatural powers and may be a gateway to another world.

Movie Review: "Stella's Last Weekend" (2018)

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Movie: "Stella's Last Weekend"

Director: Polly Draper
Year: 2018
Rating: NR
Running Time: 1 hour, 42 minutes

The bond between two brothers is put to the test when they discover they are in love with the same woman.

Movie Review: "Lake Placid" (1999)

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Movie: "Lake Placid"

Director: Steve Miner
Year: 1999
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 22 minutes

A group of people tries to stop a giant crocodile that has been killing the local citizens of a small town in Maine.

Movie Review: "Wild Nights with Emily" (2018)

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Movie: "Wild Nights with Emily"

Director: Madeleine Olnek
Year: 2018
Rating: NR
Running Time: 1 hour, 24 minutes

A look into the life of Emily Dickinson and her possible romantic relationship with her sister-in-law Susan Gilbert Dickinson.

Movie Review: "House" (1985)

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Movie: "House"

Director: Steve Miner
Year: 1985
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 33 minutes

A man returns to his childhood home, which he recently inherited from his aunt, to finish his novel. Once there, he is haunted by demons from the past and may have the opportunity to correct a past mistake.

Movie Review: "Raw Force" (1982)

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Movie: "Raw Force"

Director: Edward D. Murphy
Year: 1982
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 26 minutes

A group of vacationing martial arts students heads for an infamous forbidden island that is said to house the souls of disgraced martial arts masters. En route, they are forced to face off against human traffickers, but it can't prepare them for what they will encounter when they actually get to the island.

Movie Review: "Blue" (2018)

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Movie: "Blue"

Director: Karina Holden
Year: 2018
Rating: NR
Running Time: 1 hour, 16 minutes

Numerous conservationists look into the damage humans are doing to ocean life because of overfishing and the pollution of plastics.

Movie Review: "The Beyond" (1981)

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Movie: "The Beyond" / "...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà"

Director: Lucio Fulci
Year: 1981
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 27 minutes

A woman inherits a hotel that she is fixing up. What she doesn't know is that it was once a haven for witchcraft and was built over a doorway to hell.

Movie Review: "Hell Fest" (2018)

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Movie: "Hell Fest"

Director: Gregory Plotkin
Year: 2018
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 29 minutes

A group of college kids heads to a horror festival for a night of fake frights but are met with real terror when a killer disguised as a performer starts to murder festival patrons one by one.

Movie Review: "The Sacrament" (2013)

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Movie: "The Sacrament"

Director: Ti West
Year: 2013
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 39 minutes

When a man receives a letter from his estranged sister, he invites a documentary team to do exposé on the commune his sister has joined because he thinks he may need to rescue her. Once they get there, it isn't at all how they imagined, and not everything is as it seems.

Movie Review: "Venom" (2018)

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Movie: "Venom"

Director: Ruben Fleischer
Year: 2018
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 1 hour, 52 minutes

When a research company brings back parasitic organisms from outer space, one of the creatures, known as a symbiote, bonds with a reporter named Eddie Brock, who is looking into this company's unethical practices in human testing. Now, the company's owner Carlton Drake wants his symbiote back and will do whatever it takes to get it.

Movie Review: "Splinter" (2008)

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Movie: "Splinter"

Director: Toby Wilkins
Year: 2008
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 22 minutes

An escaped convict and his girlfriend take a couple on their way home from a camping trip hostage in their vehicle. When the group comes across a deadly parasite that turns its victims into ravenous zombie-like creatures, they must take shelter in a gas station and find a way to work together so they can survive.

Movie Review: "Living in the Future's Past" (2018)

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Movie: "Living in the Future's Past"

Director: Susan Kucera
Year: 2018
Rating: NR
Running Time: 1 hour, 23 minutes

A documentary that examines the nature of man and the environment as told in terms of energy in its forms.

Movie Review: "A Star is Born" (2018)

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Movie: "A Star is Born"

Director: Bradley Cooper
Year: 2018
Rating: R
Running Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes

A country music star suffering from substance abuse issues stops into a drag bar to get a drink after a gig one night. It is in this bar where he discovers a talented young singer, and the two quickly fall in love. He helps launch her career, but as her star begins to rise, his starts to fade as the years of drug and alcohol abuse begin to catch up with him.

Movie Review: "Dude Bro Party Massacre III" (2015)

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Movie: "Dude Bro Party Massacre III"

Director: Tomm Jacobsen, Michael Rousselet, and Joe Salmon
Year: 2015
Rating: NR
Running Time: 1 hour, 31 minutes

A college student joins a rowdy fraternity that has been plagued by a serial killer on two separate occasions to investigate the murder of his twin brother, which has set off the third string of killings.

11 Horror Comedies That Are A Scary Good Time

We love watching horror movies year-round. Some movie watchers, on the other hand, don't like to be disturbed beyond reason but still want to get in the Halloween spirit. Today, we wanted to share a list of our favorite horror comedies that will make you laugh and get you in the Halloween spirit at the same time!

Movie Review: "Hell Baby" (2013)

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Movie: "Hell Baby"

Director: Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon
Year: 2013
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 38 minutes

When a pregnant woman named Vanessa and her husband Jack move into a fixer-upper in New Orleans, the couple is plagued by strange happenings. Matters only get worse when it appears that Vanessa may now be possessed by a demon that is growing inside her.

Movie Review: "Dodging Bullets" (2018)

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Movie: "Dodging Bullets"

Director: Kathy Broere and Bobby Trench
Year: 2018
Rating: NR
Running Time: 1 hour, 40 minutes

A look at how historical trauma has influenced the present day lives of America's indigenous people and how the exploitation the Native American individuals continues even today.

Movie Review: "Society" (1989)

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Movie: "Society"

Director: Brian Yuzna
Year: 1989
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour, 39 minutes

A high school student named Bill begins to suspect his parents and his sisters aren't who he thought they were. It turns out, he's right. They are actually part of a strange society that performs bizarre rituals and has influential members who secretly control everything.

Movie Review: "Night School" (2018)

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Movie: "Night School"

Director: Malcolm D. Lee
Year: 2018
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 1 hour, 51 minutes

Teddy is a high school dropout but is still a master salesman. When an accident blows up his old place of employment, his buddy offers to get him a job as a stockbroker under one condition: Teddy has to get his GED from night school first.