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Wes Craven’s New Nightmare Feels More at Home Now Than 30 Years Ago
The year is 1994. I head to the theatre, buy a ticket for Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, and I’m not ready for what happens next. The year is 2023. I flip over to Max, press play on Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, and I’m still not ready for what happens next. A lot has changed in…
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Wes Craven’s The Serpent and the Rainbow Feels Like a Horror Time Capsule
There are two scenes in Wes Craven’s 1988 horror film The Serpent and the Rainbow that everyone remembers: Bill Pullman’s character having his groin mangled, and Bill Pullman’s character being buried alive with a tarantula. Those stick with you. Other elements of the movie are murkier — but a rewatch offers a reminder of how…
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9 Horror Movies About Horror Film Shoots Gone Very, Very Wrong
Ti West’s current hit X follows the cast and crew of a late-1970s porn film whose dreams of home-video glory are gruesomely waylaid while filming in rural Texas. The movie pays homage to horror notables, including The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but it’s also part of a subgenre that’s basically “film shoot gone horribly, horribly…
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Scream’s New Directors on Keeping Secrets, Stab Movies, and Screening in Theatres Only
A movie about killing is scary enough. A movie that could actually kill you is something else entirely. And yet, that’s the fear the new Scream movie is facing when it hits theatres Friday. While film fans returned to theatres in droves last month for Spider-Man: No Way Home, the omicron variant of covid-19 might…