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Extreme Cinema – The Idiots (1998)

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The Idiots, 1998. Directed by Lars von Trier. Starring Bodil Jørgensen, Jens Albinus, Anne Louise Hassing and Nikolaj Lie Kass. Lars von Trier’s The Idiots (Idioterne, 1998) features the potentially offensive story of a group of middle class people who pretend to be handicapped as they are unhappy with society. The film begins with Karen […]

Underrated Horror Comedy Movies That You Must Watch

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Marvelous Videos presents ten laugh-out-loud horror comedies… Horror comedy – it’s literally an oxymoron. How can any piece of storytelling make sense if it’s trying to both scare someone and make them laugh their head off? Genre mixers have existed for a while now, but those combinations have at least made sense: action and fantasy, […]

Cheesy But Entertaining B-Movie Monster Horror Films That No One Talks About

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Marvelous Videos presents B-movie monster horror films from the depths of cheesiness… B-movies have consistently benefitted from lack of interference from studio heads. They represent what happens when you have unadulterated auteurism; filmmakers given a limited budget and told to go nuts. Producers are aware that there is a niche appeal from moviegoers. The best […]

The Best Superhero Horror Movies

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Marvelous Videos presents the best superhero horror movies… One of the reasons the superhero genre will never go the way of the western is because of how malleable it is. Thanks to wonderful productions from DC and Marvel, we have already seen it occupy a variety of categories, from thriller to western to crime drama […]

Underappreciated B-Horror Movies By Great Directors

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Marvelous Videos presents under-loved B-horror films from great directors…. Even famous niche directors have underrated gems in their filmography. They’ve created so much wonderful content for audiences (and fans!) to digest that some of their smaller/undermarketed works fly under the radar. Which is a shame because they put just as much effort into them as […]

Underrated Horror Franchises That Are Ripe for Reinvention

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Marvelous Videos presents with a selection of horror franchises ripe for reinvention… When a horror movie strikes gold, it’s almost guaranteed a slew of increasingly worse sequels courtesy of its guaranteed box office draw. However, when a horror movie doesn’t strike a chord with audiences, it means you’re lucky to get a sequel in direct-to-DVD […]

Marvelous Space Horror Movies That Will Leave You Shaken!

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Marvelous Videos presents space horror nightmares that will leave you shaken… We fear the unknown, and nothing elicits a greater fear of the unknown then the vast infinite abyss that is space. What lies behind the stars? What other sentient beings exist? As Arthur C. Clarke put it “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone […]

Well That’s Just Prime: 25 Years of Beast Wars: Transformers

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Ricky Church on the 25th anniversary of Beast Wars: Transformers… In the 1980s The Transformers franchise was a massive worldwide hit with a successful toyline, animated series, comic and a feature film which recently celebrated its 35th anniversary. There was a lot to enjoy as the franchise depicted the battles between the heroic Autobots against the evil […]

Drive’s 10th Anniversary of Character Driven Story and Visuals

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Ricky Church marks the tenth anniversary of Drive… While a certain franchise that is both fast and furious may have dominated the car heist genre in the past decade plus, every now and then there comes along a film that gives the genre a shot in the arm for how dramatic and captivating its story […]