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Marvelous Mad Max Rip-Offs That Are Pure Guilty Pleasure!

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Marvelous Videos presents more Mad Max rip-offs for your guilty pleasure…. George Miller’s Mad Max took advantage of the deserted landscape of the Australian Outback to create a post-apocalyptic setting that made an impact on audiences everywhere in 1979. So influential was it that it, like Star Wars and Indiana Jones, ended up inspiring a legion of clones that tried […]

Great Action Horror Movies Let Down By Bad Promotion!

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Marvelous Videos with a selection of great action horror movies which were let down by bad promotion… Marketing can make or break a film. Sometimes independent pictures get lucky when they’re picked up by a bigger distributor, others happen to go viral by virtue of sheer opportunity. But most of the time, you often see […]

Horror Movie Remakes That Did Justice to the Originals

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Marvelous Videos with a selection of great horror movie remakes… Remakes and reboots get a bad rep. When you have an established product that resonated with a lot of people, it can be hard to replicate that feeling. Most of the time, it seems studios try to compensate for the lack of charm with more […]

The Lost Crusade: The Truth About Arnold Schwarzenegger and Paul Verhoeven’s Abandoned Epic

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Marvelous Videos explores the story behind the abandoned historical action epic Crusade… We have all heard or advocated for something that has ultimately never gotten produced. Zack Snyder’s Justice League aside, the reality is such cases of fan advocacy leading to actual development of a long-awaited project are few and far between. No matter how […]

The Most Maniacal Villains From the Judge Dredd Universe

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Marvelous Videos on the most maniacal Judge Dredd villains… Judge Dredd is one of those characters who has weaved his way into pop culture through hard grit. As part of the British comic book series 2000 AD, Dredd had a hard enough time competing against other popular titles by popular writers and artists, and yet […]

Mind-Bending Cerebral Sci-Fi Movies That You Must Watch

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Marvelous Videos presents cerebral science fiction to scramble your brain…. In his review of Ex_Machina, film critic Matt Zoller Seitz remarked that real sci-fi was about ideas, and we can’t help but mostly agree. Science fiction, at its core, is about challenging our perceptions of the real world- expanding our horizons if you will. Some auteurs […]

The Most Powerful Monsters in the Godzilla Universe

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Marvelous Videos delves into the most powerful kaiju of the Godzilla universe… Godzilla kickstarted the kaiju genre with his successful debut in 1954, ensuring giant monsters would become a mainstay of pop culture for decades and decades to come. That doesn’t mean it’s fall fun and games though. The great giant radioactive monster has had to […]

Devious Horror Villains From the VHS Era Who Deserve More Love!

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Marvelous Videos with a selection of devious horror villains who deserve more love… Back when Blockbuster was still a retail force to be reckoned with, readers may recall the horror section of the shop. This was an unofficial “adults only” area that was meant to be a showcase for all kinds of terrifying thrillers, ranging […]

The Best David Cronenberg Movies of All Time

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Marvelous Videos presents Cronenberg nightmare fuel… David Cronenberg is one of the most iconic horror directors of all time. His name has come to be synonymous with a subgenre of terror that focuses on the degradation of the human body by internal and external sources. And boy that does that get to us! The natural […]

Action-Packed Kung Fu Horror Movies You Need to Watch

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Marvelous Videos recommends a selection of kung fu horror movies… Kung fu is one of the most popular martial arts to emerge from Asia – it’s popularity so big, that an entire genre of films have been, and continue to be, influenced by it. We have all seen the many offshoots of the wuxia category, […]