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Unsung Action Heroines Who Deserve the Spotlight

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Marvelous Videos presents underappreciated action heroines… It’s a fact that men dominated the action genre of the 80s and 90s. Sure, occasionally you had some women stand out like Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor and Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, but studios were more prone to highlight their male counterparts in the marketing department. And […]

Dark and Gritty Movies That Judge Dredd Lovers Will Cherish

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Marvelous Videos presents gritty movies for Judge Dredd fans… One of the major appeals of the Judge Dredd universe is its hellish landscape. Mega-City One is a monstrous metropolis full of crime, moral decay, and everything you can possible hate about humanity. In some ways, it makes sense that brutal law enforcement methods are employed by the […]

Ultimate Evil Movie Villains from the 1980s

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Marvelous Videos presents 80s movie villains who were deliciously evil… Man, what was it about the 80s that made their action genre so damn good? This was an era that somehow knew where to draw the line between B-movie thrills and A-list production value. The writers, directors, and producers were all aware of the core […]

Terrifying Cosmic Horror Films Inspired by Lovecraft

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Marvelous Videos delves into the dark depths of cinema for a selection of cosmic horror films inspire by H.P. Lovecraft… Long before Alfred Hitchcock and Stephen King dominated the genre, H. P. Lovecraft was pioneering a new form of horror that would shock the world: the idea that humans weren’t all that great. “The most […]

The Most Powerful Horror Villains Of All Time

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Marvelous Videos on the most powerful horror villains… When your genre is predicated on terrorizing your protagonist, it inherently means giving your antagonist an extra oomph. They need some kind of power or ability that allows them to easily scare a group of humans without succumbing to some mishap like a bullet or fall. Horror […]

Mechanical Monster Horror Movies That Went Unloved!

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Marvelous Videos presents underloved mechanical monster movies… Man vs. Machine. This is a conflict that has gained even more attention thanks to the advent of AI, but on its own merits it deals with a facet of warfare that we don’t really think about- unthinking robots sent out to exterminate humans. When you reflect on […]

Sick and Twisted Movies For Hellraiser Fans

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Marvelous Videos presents twisted films for fans of Hellraiser… Clive Barker’s Hellraiser touched on the concept of alternate dimension beings – demonic entities from a parallel world whose have come over to terrorize us for their own sadistic pleasure. It wasn’t the first film to do this, nor the last, but it was one of the better […]

Horror Movies With Unbelievable Practical Gore Effects

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Marvelous Videos serves up a slice of practical gore effects… Computer-generated imagery, or CGI, has gotten a bad rep these days from film school dropout channels that believe the older way of creating is inherently better. No matter the flaws in their arguments, though, they do raise a point that, without proper rendering, CGI has […]

Insanely Absurd Martial Arts Movies for B-Movie Lovers

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Marvelous Videos with martial arts movie recommendations for B-movie lovers… When it comes to depictions in film, martial arts is as much about technique as it is about style. People come to these movies to watch some variation of hand-to-hand combat, and the results must be entertaining regardless of practicality. Some filmmakers, however, have taken […]

Terrifying Horror Anthology Movies You Cannot Miss!

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Marvelous Videos presents terrifying horror anthologies… Sometimes a writer doesn’t have enough juice for a feature length project. Sometimes a filmmaker doesn’t have the budget to make a 1.5-2 hour motion picture. In both cases, a solution exists- the anthology! Over the many decades that cinema has existed, we have seen anthologies produced by studios […]