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October Horrors 2018 Day 8 – Dracula (1958)

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Dracula (a.k.a. Horror of Dracula), 1958. Directed by Terence Fisher. Starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, and Carol Marsh. SYNOPSIS: After his friend Jonathan Harker goes missing, vampire hunter Dr Van Helsing finds himself locked into a battle against his murderer, the centuries-old vampire known as Count Dracula. To say that Bram Stoker’s […]

Movie Review – An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn (2018)

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An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn, 2018. Written and directed by Jim Hosking. Starring Aubrey Plaza, Emile Hirsch, Jemaine Clement, Craig Robinson, Sam Dissanayake, Matt Berry, Zach Cherry, and Sky Elobar. SYNOPSIS: Lulu Danger’s unsatisfying marriage takes a turn for the worse when a mysterious man from her past comes to town to perform an event […]

DVD Review – Bad Samaritan (2018)

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Bad Samaritan, 2018. Directed by Dean Devlin. Starring David Tennant, Robert Sheehan, Kerry Condon, Jacqueline Byers, Carlito Olivero, and Lisa Brenner. SYNOPSIS: A pair of thieving valets get more than they bargained for when they come across a kidnapped girl in the home of one of their customers. Bad Samaritan is a smart movie. Smart […]

Movie Review – Glass Jaw (2018)

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Glass Jaw, 2018. Directed by Jeff Celentano. Starring Lee Kholafai, Korrina Rico, Jamie Camil, Boosie, Brandon Sklenar, Reynaldo Gallegos, Vernon Wells, and Mark Rolston. SYNOPSIS: A champion boxer goes to prison and loses everything for a crime he didn’t truly commit. Once out, he fights to earn everything back. Glass Jaw is a boxing movie. […]

Movie Review – The Book of Birdie (2017)

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The Book of Birdie, 2017. Directed by Elizabeth E. Schuch Starring Ilirida Memedovski, Suzan Crowley, Kymberly Mellen, Kitty Hall, and Kathryn Browning. SYNOPSIS: A young girl with an obsession for blood is taken to a convent after some unmentioned trauma. The Book of Birdie is legitimately a film that is hard to categorize. Is it […]

October Horrors 2018 Day 7 – The Conjuring (2013)

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The Conjuring, 2013. Directed by James Wan. Starring Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston, and Lili Taylor. SYNOPSIS: Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren are called in to help a family in Rhode Island who finds that their new dream home is trapped under the curse of an evil force hell-bent on forcing the new […]

October Horrors 2018 Day 6 – 28 Days Later (2002)

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28 Days Later, 2002. Directed by Danny Boyle. Starring Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston and Brendan Gleeson. SYNOPSIS: Jim awakens from a coma to find London decimated by a deadly virus that has reduced its remaining inhabitants into a horde of rabid violent creatures. It’s safe to say that we’re entering the late stages […]

Movie Review – A Star Is Born (2018)

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A Star Is Born, 2018. Directed by Bradley Cooper. Starring Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Sam Elliott, Dave Chapelle, Anthony Ramos, and Michael Harney. SYNOPSIS: A musician helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral. Hollywood adores a film about itself. It’s infatuated […]

October Horrors 2018 Day 5 – Night of the Living Dead (1990)

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Night of the Living Dead, 1990. Directed by Tom Savini. Starring Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman, Tom Towles, McKee Anderson and William Butler. SYNOPSIS: Barbara and her brother Johnny are visiting their mothers’ grave when the two are attacked by seemingly deranged assailants and Johnny is killed. After escaping to a nearby farmhouse Barbara is joined […]