Category: horror
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Five Nights at Freddy’s
3 outta 5 Five Nights at Freddy’s is a strange film, and not only because it’s primarily concerned about killer animatronic mascots going on a slasher spree. The strange thing is that for a horror slasher absurdist film, it seems to be contradicting itself on what tone it wants. There’s an intense character drama about…
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Totally Killer
4 outta 5 Totally Killer is definitely a unique film, considering there aren’t a huge amount of slasher/ comedy/ horror time/ travel movies. The influence of Back to the Future is readily apparent because the main character keeps mentioning it, along with slasher standards like Scream and Halloween. The winning performance by the lead makes…
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Appendage
3 outta 5 Appendage is an interesting body horror film that diverts a bit into human relationship melodrama and angsty moments between a daughter and mother, but there’s an icky monster movie at its core. The description on the DisneyPlus app calls it a “horror comedy” but there really isn’t a lot of comedy here,…
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Evil Dead (’13 review)
4 outta 5 The Evil Dead trilogy is actually one of the more inventive series out there because each take bounces into a different genre. Evil Dead is an indie horror exploitation flick, Evil Dead 2 is a gore horror comedy and the third, Army of Darkness, is a slapstick horror medieval quest film. Now…
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Scream VI
As Randy hollered in the first Scream from 1996, “There’s a very specific formula!” which is something that Scream VI sticks to. There are more than a few structural and plot movements in Scream VI that, seemingly intentionally, takes from Scream 2 which is appropriate as this is the second movie in a new Scream…
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