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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 […]

Video Game Review – Spider-Man

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Ricky Church reviews Spider-Man… After what has been a very long time, Insomniac Games’ Spider-Man has finally been released. The game is a very welcome entry to superhero video games and takes its place among the very best of them as players step into the wall-crawling shoes of Spider-Man and fights some of his most famous […]

Movie Review – Housewife (2017)

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Housewife, 2017. Directed by Can Evrenol. Starring Clémentine Poidatz, David Sakurai, Alicia Kapudag, Defne Halman, and Ali Aksöz. SYNOPSIS: On a snowy eve, Little Holly’s sister and father are killed by her frantic mother. Years later, Holly is married, lonely, and her life is soon about take a turn for the ultra weird, when she […]

October Horrors 2018 Day 4 – Possession (1981)

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Possession, 1981. Directed by Andrzej Zulawski. Starring Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennet, and Johanna Hofer. SYNOPSIS: Mark, an international spy, returns home from his latest mission to be confronted with a demand for a divorce from his wife Anna after she admits to having an affair. This marital spat, however, is merely […]

October Horrors 2018 Day 3 – Eraserhead (1977)

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Eraserhead, 1977. Directed by David Lynch. Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anne Roberts, and Jack Fisk. SYNOPSIS: Henry Spencer is informed that his longtime girlfriend Mary X has given birth to his hideously disfigured child and the two move in together. After X abandons her lover and her child, Henry is forced […]

October Horrors 2018 Day 2 – The Night of the Hunter (1955)

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The Night of the Hunter, 1955. Directed by Charles Laughton. Starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin and Sally Jane Bruce. SYNOPSIS: Shortly before he is executed for murder, young John and Pearl Harper’s father makes the two swear to never reveal the location of the $10,000 he stole from his victims. The […]

Movie Review – Black ’47 (2018)

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Black ‘47, 2018. Directed by Lance Daly. Starring Hugo Weaving, Jim Broadbent, Stephen Rea, James Frecheville, Freddie Fox, Barry Keoghan, Moe Dunford, and Sarah Greene. SYNOPSIS: Set in Ireland during the Great Famine, the drama follows an Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, as he abandons his post to reunite with his […]

October Horrors 2018 Day 1 – Dracula (1931)

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Dracula, 1931. Directed by Tod Browning. Starring Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye and Edward Van Sloan. SYNOPSIS: The mysterious Count Dracula arrives in London from Transylvania and begins to charm his way into the life of the beautiful Mina. However, it soon becomes clear Dracula is something far more sinister than a […]

Movie Review – House of Salem (2016)

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House of Salem, 2016. Directed by James Crow. Starring Jessica Arterton, Jack Brett Anderson, Liam Kelly, Leslie Mills, Robert Lowe, and Dean Maskell. SYNOPSIS: A gang kidnaps a young boy but instead of receiving a ransom they discover they are part of a satanic ritual. Writer/director James Crow’s House of Salem is a film full […]