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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 […]

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 […]

The Best Religious Horror Movies of All Time

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Red Stewart presents religious horror movies… Many of the world’s religions have a sprawling mythos associated with them. Combine that with the general human morality conflict of good vs. evil and you have some fascinating theories and storylines about the way the metaphysical world works. Well, a lot of auteurs in the filmmaking field who […]

Will Godzilla vs. Kong be a monster disappointment?

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Red Stewart on why Godzilla vs. Kong could fail to live up to its promise… Not since Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has a big budget blockbuster brawl been as hyped as Godzilla vs. Kong. This remake of the 1962 classic will see the two giant monster franchises crossover in spectacular fashion. Or will […]

Animalistic Monsters Who Made Mediocre Movies Awesome

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Marvelous Videos presents animalistic monsters who made mediocre movies awesome… Humans in conflict with monstrous beasts is a tale that goes back to our hunter-gatherer days. We have this instinctual fear of behemoths: predators who would love to make us their prey should the opportunity arise. Horror movies have capitalized on that fervor, particularly among […]

The Most Powerful Terminators of All Time

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Marvelous Videos presents a look at the most powerful Terminator models… Sequelitis is a problem that a lot of films suffer from- the idea that you have to make each successive entry in a franchise bigger and brasher to compensate for the lack of originality they will inherently have. Yet, if there’s one franchise that […]

Michael Bay’s Transformers Franchise Is Even Worse Than We Remember

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Red Stewart delves into why Bayformers was really that bad… It’s been close to four years since the latest Michael Bay-directed Transformers film, and yet their legacy lives on. Bay decided to imbue these flicks with dumb insults and crass humor, and so his work deserves to be critiqued forever. Here are five of the […]