The element of surprise is a major weapon in any storyteller’s arsenal. Their seeming voyeuristic delight in watching someone expecting one thing and delivering the complete opposite must be ultimately satisfying. To kill off a major character unexpectedly (happens a few times in this list) when the character is ingrained in the viewers mind as […]
Author: Daniel Evans
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The 10 Scariest Horror Movies of All Time
“Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.” – Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) People love to be scared. Even as they clammily grasp, white knuckled, at the sheets or the arm of whoever’s next to them, terrified at what horror’s are unfolding on the screen, be it […]
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All 9 “Nightmare On Elm Street” Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
Macbeth was in the fortunate position of not being able to sleep most nights, something the juvenile adolescents of Elm Street could only hope for. The dream world for these unfortunate souls is inhabited by a fedora wearing dream stalker, scratching around in the deepest recesses of the slumbering mind, ready to tear and claw […]
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All 7 Movies From The “Saw” Franchise Ranked From Worst To Best
“Why should things be easy to understand?” so says Thomas Pynchon, author of the famously near impenetrable Gravity’s Rainbow (1973). “The device you’re wearing is hooked into your rib cage. By the time this tape is finished, you will have one minute to find a way out” so says Jigsaw, the puppet master that haunts […]
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All 14 Mummy Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
Osiris was a trendsetter. The God of the dead, after having his body parts unfortunately scattered to the four corners of the earth (happens to the best of us) was put back together by his long suffering wife Isis, who, after wrapping him in the finest of linen and without the need for a gigantic […]