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Incredible Movie Opening Scenes That Hooked the Audience

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Tom Jolliffe looks at 15 great movie openings which hook the audience immediately… Audiences are a difficult bunch to please sometimes. A film’s goal is to grab the attention of viewers and hold them until the final credits roll. In the age of streaming and a lust for instant gratification, where Tik Tok videos all […]

Jack Champion talks about the “hard left turn” of Avatar 3 and how Scream VI is the most brutal yet

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If you’re one of the many people who’ve contributed to Avatar: The Way of Water‘s almost half-a-billion dollar haul since it opened last week, then you’ll have spotted that there is a decidedly non-Na’vi looking character hanging out with the Sully clan on Pandora. That’d be Spider, played by Avengers: Endgame‘s Jack Champion, and he […]

Scream VI looks to up the ante by being “100 times gorier”, says Melissa Barrera

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If you saw 2022’s Scream, the fifth film in the long-running slasher franchise, you know actress Melissa Barrera took part in one of the film’s goriest moments. But things are getting bloodier as we move to the next movie, says the new Scream leading lady. During an interview with Collider, Barrera hyped up the upcoming […]

Scream: The TV Series Halloween Special Review

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Martin Carr reviews the Scream: The TV Series Halloween Special… There is something distinctly old school about this feature film length Scream special which is reassuring, run of the mill but nonetheless engaging stuff. Acting as a bridge between seasons two and three, this here is proper haunted house, isolated island cliché with lashings of […]

Scream: The TV Series Season 2 Episode 12 Review – ‘When A Stranger Calls’

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Martin Carr reviews the twelfth episode of Scream: The TV Series season 2… Little known but relevant, ‘When A Stranger Calls’ mirrors the predictable conclusion to Scream as it concludes for another season. On the run but still trying to figure out who their tormentor might be, Audrey and Emma hightail it from one end […]

Scream: The TV Series Season 2 Episode 11 Review – ‘Heavenly Creatures’

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Martin Carr reviews the eleventh episode of Scream: The TV Series season 2… As usual I am running behind schedule. Up against it and the creator of my own predicament. Having watched the finale to this second season I obviously know the outcome but have no intention of spoiling it for anyone. With the unveiling […]

Scream: The TV Series Season 2 Episode 9 Review – ‘The Orphanage’

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Martin Carr reviews the ninth episode of Scream: The TV Series season 2… Over the course of ‘The Orphanage’ there is some serious film referencing beyond that obvious tagline, which includes the eponymous Phantasm series and B-movie mainstay April Fool’s Day. This of course remains the charm of a series for anyone who ever loved […]

Scream: The TV Series Season 2 Episode 10 Review – ‘The Vanishing’

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Martin Carr reviews the tenth episode of Scream: The TV Series season 2… This week we are treated to references outside the horror genre, which for someone like me who has instant recall is a whole barrel of fun. Aside from the tagline we get direct and indirect hat tipping for Dirty Harry, Buried and […]

Scream: The TV Series Season 2 Episode 8 Review – ‘Village of the Damned’

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Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of Scream: The TV Series season 2… Some smoking remains and the decapitated right hand of a known philanderer form the basis of our latest trip to Lakewood. As further suspicions are raised, fingers pointed and bodies pile up, Scream fulfils another in a large number of tick lists […]

Scream Season 2 Episode 7 Review – ‘Let The Right One In’

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Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Scream: The TV Series season 2… Unlike other shows Scream is a good old fashioned pastiche to its very marrow. There are no genre boundaries being traversed, no wild revelations or people trying too hard in the drama department. This is just predictable slaughter on a weekly basis […]