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The Dark Universe’s Bride of Frankenstein Would have Been a Time-Hopping, Gothic Horror Film
Universal’s Dark Universe died before it could even get off the ground, one of multiple attempts at building a cinematic universe after Marvel’s made it look so cool in the present day. But audiences very much said “yeah, no” to its debut film, the Tom Cruise-led The Mummy, back in 2017. Among the various plans…
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12 Horror Anthology Movies That will Haunt Your Nightmares
Horror and anthologies go together like peanut butter and chocolate, knives and showers, zombies and shopping malls. While sometimes it’s worth it to commit to a single story over the course of a two-hour movie, it can also be just as scary (and just as entertaining) to watch a film that’s chopped its narrative into…
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V/H/S/94 Is a Grimy, Gory Found-Footage Throwback
The first V/H/S movie came out in 2012, arriving at the tail end of the low-budget found-footage horror craze (Paranormal Activity and REC came out in 2007; Cloverfield was 2008) and capturing the last moment in culture before VCRs became totally obsolete. Two sequels followed, with 2014’s V/H/S: Viral embracing phone footage and the power…
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17 Bloody Great Horror Movie Part 2s
Evil Dead is a low-budget horror classic. Its sequel, conveniently titled Evil Dead II, came out six years after the original and is also a classic — an amped-up version of the first film that adds more humour and gore with the help of a larger budget. However, not every “part 2” in the scary-movie…