What I Liked: If it wasn’t the first, The Blair White Project was the one that catapulted the found film horror genre to its apex. It changed the game forever. On such a low budget, it created a story of a documentary about a myth of a witch in the woods. It never lets on…
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The Story: Friends defy the rules of a legendary murderer and discover he is real when they start celebrating Valentine’s Day. (Google) What I liked: This film is a classic for creating a good ol’ fashion slasher flick on a holiday known for canoodling with a lover. Canadian accents and jukebox rock aside, My Bloody…
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The Story: The novel is written in the voice of eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine “Merricat” Blackwood, who lives with her sister and uncle on an estate in Vermont. Six years before the events of the novel, the Blackwood family experienced a tragedy that left the three survivors isolated from the rest of their small village. (Wikipedia)…
Read moreWith this pick, I know I am dating myself. The fact that there will be some out there who don’t know about this ground breaking, progressive series, doesn’t come as a shock. Many shows today – their comedy, their pop culture references, their episode story lines and character developments – exist today because Buffy the…
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Originally published and edited from All Things MJ Cross Blogger 1/24/15. Carrie (2013) stars Chloe Grace Cortez as the film’s titular character and Julianne Moore as her deranged Christian-Fundamentalist mother, Margaret. By now, you may already know her name and the story. If you don’t please stop now and pick up the book. Spoilers follow!…
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Originally published and edited from my All Things MJ Cross Blogger on 12/17/2015. Yet another found-footage film. There’s something about having a first-person POV as you turn the corner of some dark tunnel, praying that there’s nothing on the other side. As Above, So Below is rift with these twists and turns. Essentially the story…
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Day 10 of #31daysofhorror reviews Parasite is a South Korean black-comedy thriller that came out in 2019 and near damn swept thee Academy Awards on its path to collecting many other accolades. So why watch Parasite for this or any other Halloween? First The Story: Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship…
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Day 9 of #31daysofhorrror review. The Story: It sounds like just another urban legend — a videotape filled with nightmarish images leads to a phone call foretelling the viewer’s death in exactly seven days. Newspaper reporter Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) is skeptical of the story until four teenagers all die mysteriously exactly one week after…
Read moreStephen King is so prolific that he name is synonymous with American Horror. I doubt there’s no one who couldn’t name one of his works. Or in the least, conjure up movie that was inspired by King. It’s my hope to one day mirror his success. So while your hear, please take a look at…
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For Day 7 of #31daysofhorror review, I present to you Black Christmas (2019). Apparently, this is a remake of a remake of the original (1974). Try wrapping your head around that one. The Story: Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays as students travel home to spend time with their families. But as Riley…
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