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Movie Review - The VelociPastor
Budget. If you’re a fan of watching how films get made, this word comes up a lot, usually from producers and never in a positive way. The...
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Apr 17, 2022
Franchise Friday - Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
While negative critical reception is nothing new for the Friday the 13th franchise, there was enough fan blowback and diminishing returns...
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Apr 16, 2022
Franchise Friday - Friday The 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan
Yeah, it’s pretty obvious why the franchise took a bit of a break after this one. It’s not that the concept of ‘Jason on a boat’ couldn’t...
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Apr 1, 2022
Franchise Friday - Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood
I’ll be honest, I didn’t expect to like Friday the 13th part 7: A New Blood. If for no other reason than it seemed like if it wasn’t the...
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Mar 25, 2022
Thriller Thursday - Night of the Creeps
There’s been some debate lately in the #MutantFam and #TheLastDriveIn communities about whether or not Tom Atkins is a cinematic god and...
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Mar 24, 2022
Franchise Friday - Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives
Friday the 13th Part 6 brings us the final chapter of the Tommy Jarvis trilogy and, in a new twist for the series, an entry that eschews...
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Mar 18, 2022
Franchise Friday - Friday the 13th Part 5: A New Beginning
Yes, there were other horror movie franchises throughout the 80s…but most people always know what you’re talking about if you just refer...
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Mar 11, 2022
Thriller Thursday - Pontypool
Yeet. 10 years ago, ‘yeet’ didn’t exist. Even now as I’m typing this, Microsoft word is telling me that ‘yeet’ isn’t a real word either....
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Mar 10, 2022
Franchise Friday - Friday the 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter
Although it was designed to finish off the series, we can see in retrospect that Friday the 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter, turns out to...
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Mar 4, 2022
Movie Review - The Phantom of the Opera (1989)
For the guys in the #MutantFam, I’m happy to present the following: a date night horror movie. Now, don’t worry, there’s no musical...
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Feb 28, 2022
Movies Against Whitey! Ganja & Hess
Sure, I could have…and probably will…go with Blacula for our blending of Whitey Wednesday and Vampire Vednesday, but first I thought I’d...
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Feb 27, 2022
Franchise Friday - Friday the 13th Part 3 (in 3D)
So here we are, Friday the 13th Part 3…in 3D. And let’s be clear, the 3D gimmick is the driving force behind a lot of the decisions in...
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Feb 25, 2022
Movie Review - Spiral: From the Book of Saw
I have my brother to blame for my distaste for the Saw franchise. He’d been an aficionado of horror films for as long as I can remember...
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Feb 21, 2022
Franchise Friday - Friday the 13th Part 2
Five years later… The boy was never found. Still, to play it safe, Camp Crystal Lake is off limits for Friday the 13th Part 2. This...
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Feb 18, 2022
Impulse Buy Theater - Killer Sofa
Seriously…like, what the hell is going on down under? Is it something in the water? The food? Just the culture? Because, whatever...
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Feb 14, 2022
Franchise Friday - Friday the 13th (1980)
“Anyone can die at any time.” Of the many ways one can describe the body count of a ‘drive-in movie’, that’s definitely one of the most...
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Feb 11, 2022
Thriller Thursday - Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
Now this is what I’d wanted all along! But the weird thing is…well, wait a sec, let me find a better way to say this: critics definitely...
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Feb 10, 2022
Vampire Vednesday - Dracula (1979)
There are many reasons to get into horror films. Every horror fan will tell you a unique story as to how they came to embrace the genre....
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Feb 9, 2022
Movie Review - Mindwarp
With The Matrix Resurrections having come and gone from Theaters (mostly)…and maybe HBO Max briefly…we turn our attention to a pre-Matrix...
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Feb 7, 2022
Lycanthropy April - The Unliving
It merits saying that many artistic icons, usually way back in the day of say Edgar Allen Poe but some instances pop up nowadays too, die...
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Apr 26, 2020
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