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Buddy: Too Many Cooks, Too Much Blood and One Angry Unicorn

I was in my teens when Barney & Friends began airing on PBS, so I was not exactly the show’s target audience. Barney was mostly the butt of jokes among my high school friends. I understood that the show was… Continue Reading →

Dead Media is a Throwback to Following the Rules of ’90s Horror

Back in the day, renting movies was a weekly exercise in patience. Finding the best entertainment options while beating your neighbors to the local store’s limited inventory (or not) felt like beating your head against the wall at times. For… Continue Reading →

Unholy Night Brings the Dead Home for Christmas

Growing up, Christmas with my family followed a carefully rehearsed routine, even though none of us had actually rehearsed it. My sister and her family would come over for dinner. Since I was older than my niece and nephew, I… Continue Reading →

Rose of Nevada Navigates Nautical Nightmares

Cold Open: After a long-and-intentional panning of scenery slowly bleeds into partially spoken sentences as the audience deciphers a boat has mysteriously returned after 30 long years of being declared lost at sea, the story of Rose of Nevada (which… Continue Reading →

Pitfall Turns a Simple Hike Into a Nightmare

When I first heard about Pitfall, my mind immediately went to the old Atari 2600 game. For a brief moment, I wondered if someone had finally decided that a guy swinging across vines, dodging crocodiles and jumping over pits deserved… Continue Reading →

The Dead Place Comes Alive When David Howard Thornton Arrives

I was never one of the popular kids in high school. I wasn’t necessarily bullied, either. I just ran with a group that most people would have described as socially awkward. We were the band kids, the gamers, the movie… Continue Reading →

The Mortuary Assistant Understands Fear, But Not Storytelling

I honestly believe there are two types of people in this world: The people who think haunted attractions stop being scary once the customers leave and the people who have actually spent time inside one after hours. A few years… Continue Reading →

Pizza Movie: All Crust, No Pepperoni

I have always believed there are two types of high-school experiences. There are the ones you see in movies, where everyone is always cool, effortlessly social and somehow always at the right party. And then there are the rest of… Continue Reading →

Film Masters’ Monster Mayhem Collects the Classics

Blockbuster movies demand special attention for home video releases, but cult classics deserve preservation, too. And Film Masters spares no effort to restore four iconic ’50s creature features together for the first time in Monster Mayhem Collection, a two-disc special… Continue Reading →

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