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7 Movie Franchises With Way Too Many Sequels
Sometimes a film cries out for a sequel. And sometimes we cry out when we see a sequel. Here are seven movie series that fall into the second group
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Spin Cycle: Wednesday 13, The Dixie Dead
Wednesday 13's fifth proper album of spook show rock and roll is more riff heavy than previous releases and is still more hit than miss
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The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 31: Halloween
Well, was anybody shocked? Remember, when I was setting up this series — back with Day 1′s write-up of May — I warned you that the actual holiday’s corresponding movie was
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The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 30: Trick ‘r Treat
There are a lot of great horror movies out there. I mean, I wouldn’t be writing this series if I didn’t legitimately believe that: but I believe in the simple, glorious
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The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 29: The House of the Devil
Ti West’s The House of the Devil is a peculiar, unassuming little film. It’s an ’80s horror movie created in 2009, filmed with the unmistakable grit and style of the era, but
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The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 25: The Nightmare Before Christmas
So here we are: the final week of the Halloween season. It’s almost bittersweet — and in this, our last seven days together, it’s time to bring the Halloween goodies fast
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The 31 Days of Halloween, Days 23-24: Splinter & The Host
Yesterday, we discussed — among other films — Frank Darabont’s The Mist, which examined what happens when groups of people in extreme danger start to turn on each other. One of today’s
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The 31 Days of Horror, Days 20-22: A Stephen King Mini-Marathon (The Mist, The Shining, & Silver Bullet)
Nearing the home stretch of this list, I’m aware that we’ve doubled up before: the weekend of October 6th we looked at George Romero’s first two Living Dead movies, and I
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The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 19: Sleepaway Camp
We discussed, way back on day 4 of this shindig, the intangible sense of pleasure a cheesy ’80s horror movie has to offer; while that entry, Night of the Demons ,
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The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 17: Black Sabbath
There’s something about a horror anthology that has always sucked me in. I remember distinctly my fourth-grade teacher reading aloud Alvin Schwartz’s immortal compendium of terrifying tales, Scary Stories to Tell in
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