Big budget spectacles are a dime a dozen these days. Bad guys don’t just want to pull a big heist or assassinate a politician, they want to destroy the world or take it over. Those stakes can be hard to take in huge doses, so sometimes it’s nice to scale back a bit and watch […]
Month: March 2017
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The 10 Most Promising Horror Movie Directors Working Today
There’s no denying we are in a good era for horror films in 2010s. Year after year, we have been surprised with amazing new creative voices in this genre that have been awarded at great festivals and have received recognition worldwide. In this list, we approach some directors that do not have many movies under […]
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5 Reasons Why “The Searchers” is the Best American Western Movie of All Time
Since Edwin S. Porter’s The Great Train Robbery released in 1903, western films became a popular genre among audiences and an important studio product until a ‘recent’ decline – which started somewhere around the late 1970s – leading the genre from a wider screen presence to an art house confinement. When referring to western films, […]
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6 Reasons Why “Audition” is a Modern Classic of Horror Cinema
“Audition” is quite a historic production (at least for its cult following), since it was the film that established Takashi Miike as a prominent member of the category and Eihi Shiina as a “priestess” of the grotesque. Here are five reasons that justify the title. Please note that the article contains many spoilers. 1. […]
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20 Recent Horror Movies With Unusual Antagonists
Demons. Vampires. Werewolves. Mummies. The horror genre has them all. More so, thanks to Stephen King’s dramatization as well as subsequent creature movies, even clowns have become a common scare. From secluded geeks to talking dolls, anyone and anything can become a horror movie villain, as long as they’re fueled by fear and special effects. […]