November 2011
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Top 13 Horror Films to Watch at Halloween: Never...
#3: Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010)
Directors: Daniel Farrands, Andrew Kasch
Starring: Heather Langenkamp (Narrator)
Every year until this year, I’ve embarked on a traditional weekend-long Nightmare on Elm Street marathon, usually never making it beyond Dream Child. Thankfully, I now have a way to enjoy all eight films in a single sitting (okay, maybe two) with Never...
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Top 13 Horror Films to Watch at Halloween: REC
#4: REC (2007)
Directors: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
Starring: Manuela Velasco, Ferrán Terraza, Pablo Rosso
Embedding realism into a zombie flick can be a difficult task. Films that are rich with fast-paced action, well-developed characters and skilled cinematography often struggle to maintain their believability factor. Sometimes, the war-like personalities of central characters become...
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Top 13 Horror Films to Watch at Halloween: The...
#5: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Director: Tobe Hooper
Starring: Marilyn Burns, Gunnar Hansen
As I enter the Top 5, I’d like to take a moment to point out some common themes in my Halloween films list. Though some of the pieces I’ve chosen revolve around Halloween specifically, most simply have a Halloween-esque or Autumn-like feel to them. I have an affinity for the...
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13 Horror Films to Watch at Halloween: High...
#6: High Tension/Haute Tension/Switchblade Romance (2003)
Director: Alexandre Aja
Starring: Cécile de France, Maïwenn Le Besco
During the last decade, a stylistic movement called the “New French Wave of Extremity” swept through the world of horror and raised the bar for and the entire genre film industry. New works such as Martyrs, Inside and Irreversible challenged tired cliches about...
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The Amityville Horror (1979) with commentary
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What peaceful music over the credits. Such lovely, pastoral singing. Is this really a horror movie?
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October 2011
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Top 13 Horror Films to Watch at Halloween: The...
#7: The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Director: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
Starring: Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams
1999 was an intense year of pop culture for me. I gave up my fandom of the Spice Girls after the release of their ominously-titled Goodbye album and picked up CD singles of “Baby One More Time” and “No Scrubs.” Nickelodeon retired Stick Stickly and I...
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Top 13 Horror Films to Watch at Halloween: Repo!...
#8: Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Starring: Bill Moseley, Sarah Brightman, Paris Hilton
When I sat down recently to watch this film, I really questioned my own taste in cinema. Fundamentally, I understand that Repo! The Genetic Opera is not a good movie. Plot-wise, there’s too much going on at once to digest in two-hour sitting. While cohesive, its pacing...
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Top 13 Horror Films to Watch at Halloween: Dead...
#9: Dead Alive/Braindead (1992)
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver
Dead Alive is an epic zombie gorecore splatterriot that takes blood, guts, and bits of flesh to a gross new level of intensity. The story centers around Lionel, a mousy suburbian Northeasterner who lives with his rich mother, and Paquita, his sweet love interest. One day, Lionel takes his mother on...
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Top 13 Horror Films to Watch at Halloween: Pet...
#10: Pet Sematary (1989)
Director: Mary Lambert
Starring: Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne
Louis and Rachel Creed just moved into a beautiful home paralleling a busy country highway. Their new neighbor, Jud Crandall, warns them that the highway is dangerous and has taken the lives of many pets. Sadly, it doesn’t take long for the Creed family cat, Winston Churchill, to fall victim to the...
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Top 13 Horror Films to Watch at Halloween: Silent...
#11: Silent Hill (2006)
Director: Christophe Gans
Starring: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean
Rose and Christophers’s adopted daughter, Sharon, is being plagued by recurring nightmares about a far away town called Silent Hill. After a terrifying incident that sends Sharon sleepwalking to the edge of a cliff, Rose and her daughter take off to Silent Hill in hopes of putting an end to the dreams....
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Top 13 Horror Films to Watch at Halloween: The...
#12: The Amityville Horror (1979)
Director: Stuart Rosenburg
Starring: James Brolin, Margot Kidder
I’ve been having this nightmare about The Man With The Gun for nearly three years now. He usually finds me in the wooded acreage surrounding my childhood home, though sometimes it’s while I’m hiding in a cupboard or crawling through the space between walls. His objective is...
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Top 13 Favorite Horror Films to Watch at...
#13: Bones (2001)
Director: Ernest Dickerson
Starring: Snoop Dogg, Pam Grier
The year is 1979, and Jimmy Bones (Snoop Dogg) is the leading man on the block. Bones maintains community order, busting drug dealers and giving money to those in need, until one night when a conflict with a drug dealer and a corrupt police officer leaves him dead on his apartment floor. Twenty-two years later, four...
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WatchThe Fantastic Mr. Starfox
“I can’t barrel roll away from who I am.”
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“We won’t always agree on everything all of the time, but that’s...”
– Ben is kind of wonderful.
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youveescaped:
But to you, without my moving,
Without seeing you, distant you,
Go my blood and my kisses,
My dark one and my fair one,
My broad one and my slender one,
My ugly one, my beauty,
Made of all the gold
And of all the silver,
Made of all the wheat
And of all the earth,
Made of all the water
Of sea waves,
Made for my arms
Made for my kisses,
Made for my soul.
--Pablo Neruda, "The Fickle...
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