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I hadn’t intended a marathon of director Daniel Stamm‘s filmography when I decided to watch The Last Exorcism and 13 Sins back-to-back.…
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ObscureI hadn’t intended a marathon of director Daniel Stamm‘s filmography when I decided to watch The Last Exorcism and 13 Sins back-to-back.…
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Obscure“I don’t know who he is, but he’s burned and he wears a weird hat and a red…
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ObscureWhat is the difference between a remake and a reboot? A reboot is when a franchise erases some…
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ObscureIt was inevitable that, following the success of “A Nightmare on Elm Street“, a sequel would follow and…
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ObscureThe Elm Street sequel train keeps rolling with this 1987 entry in the franchise. Considered by many (yours…
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ObscureIn 1988, the fourth instalment in the Elm Street series hit screens around the world and became the…
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ObscureBefore I continue my journey through the Elm Street movies, I was reminded of a very salient point…
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ObscureWith his 1987’s film Prison behind him, Renny Harlin’s directorial career advances forward with the 1988 film A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, released…
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ObscureI didn’t have what I would call strong expectations heading into this film. Although it feels like we…
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ObscureI was excited to see A Quiet Place: Day One in theaters. A part of that is simply…
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ObscureAbigail is the most recent film from Radio Silence, an aspiring film duo that has already made their…
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ObscureWhen I watched All Hallows’ Eve, the film brought a disturbed, little anthology that left me wanting more from Damien Leone and Art the…
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ObscureAll Hallows’ Eve is a 2013 anthology horror film directed and written by Damien Leone in his feature-film debut. The director…
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ObscureAll I Need is absolutely an ideal candidate for a review on Readers Digested, a low-budget horror film…
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ObscureOne of the first retrospectives I did for Readers Digested was The Howling, a contender for one of my…
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ObscureI went into Assimilate with little to no expectation and no insight ahead of the fact. I wasn’t even…
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ObscureReaders Digested was started with a certain outlook, … a mission statement of sorts, and that was to provide…
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ObscureWhen The Black Phone arrived, it told a complete story. Does Black Phone 2 earn its keep, or…
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ObscureBooks have been adapted into some of the finest films we’ve ever seen, and so, why is…
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ObscureIn 1987, writer Clive Barker directed Hellraiser. This wasn’t the first film he’d written but it was the first he directed. His…
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ObscureAlthough it might be a contender for understatement of the year, Charles Manson is a controversial man and a…
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ObscureRecently, I did a review ofTom & Jerry on Readers Digested. If you didn’t notice it, I am not surprised. Our website’s…
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ObscureI watched a horror movie called Christmas Evil. It has a erie grimy atmosphere that I really liked.…
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ObscureAs I certainly don’t need to tell any of you, the entertainment industry has fallen under hard…
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ObscureWhether you like them or not, there is a lot to be said for Full Moon Features’ turnaround time when…
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ObscureZombies are everywhere!! Thankfully that’s not an actual proclamation but, over the last ten years or so, it…
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ObscureBefore talking about our next film, let’s reflect a little bit on Renny Harlin’s directorial career thus far…
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ObscureDie’ced is a film I don’t think I would normally write about on Nickelbib.com. First and foremost, it was…
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ObscureDonnie Darko is a 2001 American fantasy drama film written and directed by Richard Kelly. (Other-wise known for his…
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ObscureFantastic Planet (French: La Planète sauvage, lit. The Wild Planet) is a 1973 cutout stop-motion science-fiction film directed by…
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ObscureBlumhouse tries their hand at bringing FNAF fans a new film. Does it succeed? It's complicated, but my…
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ObscureI’ll be honest, the Five Nights at Freddy’s film left a bad taste in my mouth, but my…
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ObscureChristopher Landon and Blumhouse collaborated in 2017 and created a comedy slasher film called Happy Death Day, a small, but enthusiastic film that took the…
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ObscureI should note early on that is part of my Elm Street Retrospective series so will lean slightly…
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ObscureDespite featuring in three more movies after this, Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare really does represent the last solo appearance…
Log in to Add to Movie DeckAll of the Elm Street movies have their quirks, but Freddy's Dead is perhaps the most sentimental of…
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ObscureHere we are with Friday the 13th: Jason Lives, the sixth installment in the Friday the 13th franchise (as of…
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ObscureI have talked about Full Moon Features at length over the years. I haven’t always met their filmography with…
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ObscureGingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust is a far more interesting film than its predecessor. This isn’t meant,…
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ObscureThe first Godzilla (that is, of Warner Bros.’ new Monster-Verse) was either a failure or success dependent on who you ask…
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ObscureAs a devout fan of the slasher genre, I was looking forward to the eleventh installment in the…
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ObscureIt isn't the best of the bunch, but it's an interesting curiosity.
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ObscureAlthough I was born in 90s, a lot of the films I was exposed to in my childhood either…
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ObscureWriting about movies has been a hobby of mine for a very long time now. I have…
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ObscureI have never been very invested in the Hellboy despite my best efforts to approach Mike Mignola‘s…
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ObscureHellraiser: Inferno is the fifth installment in the Hellraiser film series, and is notable for two major reasons. It…
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ObscureDaniel Radcliffe has taken an interesting turn with his acting career since starring as the broom-riding wizard in the…
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ObscureYouTube sensation Markiplier tries his hand at cosmic horror.
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ObscureIt: Chapter One set the horror scene ablaze when it first arrived in September 2017, receiving a warm reception…
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ObscureMerry Christmas or Happy Holidays (depending on what you may celebrate) from ReadersDigested.com. I hope you receive whatever gift you were…
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ObscureI was curious of how I'd feel about the film that heavily inspired Silent Hill.
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ObscureIt is crazy I haven’t ever talked about Killer Klowns from Outer Space on The Bib. On paper, Killer Klowns is…
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ObscureI like to delve into foreign films whenever I can. As a committed genre film devotee, I often opt for South…
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ObscureAlthough I may sometimes seem cynical when I talk about the more modern movies from Full Moon Features, and,…
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ObscureIt isn’t everyday I am able to direct a horror trilogy from a single director. I reviewed…
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ObscureI’ll be honest – I can’t say I’ve ever been a fan of giant monster movies and it’s a…
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ObscureSometimes I think it can be difficult to be optimistic or enthusiastic about anything you have watched…
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ObscureKristen Stewart is an actor who can sometimes sway me on a film if I know she is in…
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ObscureMegan is Missing is a film I can’t say I think a lot about. If I were…
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ObscureOur fourth and final film for this edition of the series is the 2004 film Mindhunters. This is not the Hannibal Lecter film Manhunter nor is this the fantastic crime series from director David…
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ObscureIn a previous review on Nickelbib, I went back and reviewed Rob Zombie’s debut film House of 1,000 Corpses. Although the…
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ObscureRob Zombie is about as polarizing of a figure as they come in the horror genre. Some people…
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ObscureWhen A Quiet Place burst on the scene in 2018, it felt like a breath of fresh air, in my opinion.…
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ObscureI remember watching the Magic School Bus in my youth and all their shenanigans and adventures. Whether it be…
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ObscureI have always held a certain fondness toward the Alien franchise. I can’t necessarily say why. Until…
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ObscureReleased on August 1st, 2022, I had no prior information or expectation of Allegoria. In the spirit of dumpster diving, I…
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ObscureI have not reviewed many French horror films on Nickelbib. Actually, on second thought, this is actually a first, believe it…
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ObscureLars von Trier has developed a little bit of a niche for himself in creating richly bizarre material and…
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ObscureAs another year comes and goes, I look back at 2023 with a mixed-bag of emotions, the same I…
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ObscureBarbarian is a film I was excited for, in spite of not knowing anything about it. The film was…
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ObscureBastard is a horror comedy film directed by Powell Robinson and Patrick Robert Young in both their feature-film directorial debuts, and it’s the first film from…
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ObscureMany of you may’ve noticed I don’t write a lot about superhero films on the Nickelbib. This isn’t…
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ObscureAlthough Full Moon Features is, to be frank, not what it once was – I find myself coming back to…
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ObscureI have thought about writing a review of Black Christmas for years now. The film was released in 2006 and it left…
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ObscureLately, I have been conflicted when writing about Charles Band or Full Moon Features’ brand. Whether it be “retweeting” homophobic slurs…
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ObscureBlood Widow is a 2014 horror-movie directed by Jeremiah Buckhalt. I believe that this is Jeremiah’s directing debut, as…
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ObscureBy the end of the first Subspecies film, I summarized by saying that although I appreciated the first film, I…
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ObscureBloody Murder is a 2000 drama horror film directed by Ralph Portillo (Last released a family-oriented film called Salvation Street…
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ObscureCandyman is an interesting film. Like Hellraiser before it, this Clive Barker flavored horror stands on the outside looking in as far as mainstream horror…
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ObscureCannibal Holocaust is a film I hadn’t had on the docket for Nightmare Shift. As you might have seen with…
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ObscureCape Fear is a 1991 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and is a remake…
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ObscureCargo was a film I didn’t have on my radar. I didn’t know anything about it. I hadn’t seen…
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ObscureFor those of you who the information has not already been relayed to in some way or…
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ObscureI hadn’t heard of this film. For that reason and others, I think Censor is exactly the type of…
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ObscureAs I have hit on prior, in spite having written as many reviews as I have,…
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ObscureTroma Entertainment and Lloyd Kaufman have been on my radar for many years, but I have always been apprehensive about exploring…
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ObscureThe Statute of Limitations in South Korea is something often criticized in their films, it’s an outdated…
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ObscureGuillermo Del Toro is a fun director. Films like Pan’s Labyrinth, the Hellboy series, Blade 2, and almost the Silent Hills video-game, Toro is capable…
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ObscureEven if the last couple of films in the series might not have entertained me as much…
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Obscureview I can still clearly remember the day Curse of Chucky was first announced to the public. I can remember…
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ObscureFour years after The Hills Have Eyes, Wes Craven continued his directing career with a film I had never heard of or…
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ObscureOnce upon a time, possession films used to be a daily part of the movie industry’s balanced…
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ObscureIn 2016, Don’t Breathe felt like a breath of fresh air, which is ironic, given the title. Fede Alvarez has impressed prior with…
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ObscureItalian for yellow, ‘giallo’ is a genre of Italian filmmaking that blends elements of a murder mystery or…
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ObscureThe Marvel Cinematic Universe has set an unprecedented standard in the movie industry over the last seven or so…
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ObscureRecently added to the Shudder streaming service, Edge of the Knife is a film I went into without knowing anything about…
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ObscureEl Muerto is a superhero film directed by Brian Cox. The film is an adaptation of the…
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ObscureEnemy is a 2013 Canadian psychological thriller film directed by Denis Villeneuve. If you need a refresher on…
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ObscureIt’s difficult to be a smaller-tier independent company. That’s a notion I think many can appreciate…
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ObscureThe concept of the Fear Street series is one of the coolest I have seen in awhile. I remember back when Halloween Kills and Halloween…
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ObscureCarrying on the events of Fear Street Part One: 1994, the sequel, aptly named Fear Street Part Two: 1978 continues the Netflix series’…
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ObscureIn some ways, the Final Destination series can feel like a little bit of a fever dream. It almost doesn’t…
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ObscureAfter Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, it was envisioned that Jason Voorhees and the fables of Camp Crystal Lake would finally…
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ObscureAs I prefaced with my earlier review of the original Friday the 13th film, in spite of my mad…
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ObscureReleased in 1982, continuing the annual tradition started in 1980 with the original, Friday the 13th Part III is a slasher film directed…
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ObscureIt is Friday the 13th today, which is already enough for at least some level of celebration for all…
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ObscureThe slasher genre has to be, at least in some ways, stitched into the very fabrics of who I…
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ObscureStephen King is a writer I have a lot of admiration for. As a devout horror fan and horror-writer…
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ObscureGet Gone is a film I don’t think was on many people’s radar when it was released across on-demand and home video platforms…
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ObscureIn 2014, I often frequented a video rental store called Family Video. A lot of you may not have heard…
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ObscureI can still remember when Godzilla first arrived in 2014, ushering in a new era for the gargantuan lizard and paving…
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ObscureGodzilla is an American 2014 science fiction monster film, and acts as a reboot for the franchise…
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ObscureIn my desire to offer diversity of flavor on Nickelbib, something I knew I had to do was…
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ObscureNostalgia is very powerful in the entertainment-industry, as film companies try to appeal to the youth, they simultaneously…
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ObscureR. L. Stine has been dubbed as the Stephen King of the children’s horror genre, which sounds like a fair assessment.…
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ObscureIt is October 10th and, this year, horror fans find themselves treated to one of the best holiday seasons we’ve ever…
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ObscureI was looking forward to writing my thoughts about Halloween 4 on the Nightmare Shift. I have talked about some of the Halloween…
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ObscureThe Halloween franchise comes to an end – at least until an inevitable remake, that is. However, for all intents…
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ObscureWhether you liked the 2018 reboot of Halloween, any slasher fan oughta be grateful for it. It had been more than…
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ObscureEvery time I watch Halloween, not that Halloween, not that Halloween either, but, in fact, Rob Zombie’s Halloween,…
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ObscureAdam Green may not have reinvented the wheel with the 2006 film Hatchet, but the film amounted to a fun, throwback to…
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ObscureNickelbib is direct with its intentions – I want to find my favorite films (and video-game, television…
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ObscureHeadless is something I had a lot of excitement for, albeit not for the film itself or anything that…
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ObscureNote: I wrote this review April 14, 2013. I intend to eventually re-review this film and the rest of…
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ObscureHereditary was a film I was reluctant to watch. I had seen the positive critical reception and, as a genre fan…
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ObscureWhen Hollow Man was released in 2000, the reception was negative to say the least. However, there…
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ObscureHollow Man is a 2000 American science-fiction horror film directed by Paul Verhoeven, known for his work in…
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ObscureHostel is a film I don’t think many casual moviegoers have thought about in years. After all, the film…
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ObscureHours is a 2013 American thriller film marking Eric Heisserer’s directing debut. He also wrote the story for…
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ObscureAlthough I’ve written a lot of reviews over the span of the last five years, many films fall beneath…
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ObscureI can vaguely remember when the 2005 slasher film House of Wax arrived on home-video (I was only about nine years old…
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ObscureI Am Not a Serial Killer is a film I have had in my queue for a while, with…
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ObscureDirected by Kim Jee-woon and written by Park Hoon-jung, I was looking forward to my chance to revisit and write about I Saw the Devil again.…
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ObscureI See You is a horror film directed by Adam Randall and written by Devon Graye. Adam is otherwise known for his directorial debut iBoy (that…
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ObscureIchi the Killer is a film I’ve known about and have had on my radar for a while.…
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ObscureOn the outside looking in, I felt confident that I knew what to expect from Influencer. Directed by…
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ObscureAs a devout movie collector and horror connoisseur, a lot of films in my collection stay on the shelf and collect dust, rather…
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ObscureI have written a bit about the French filmmakers Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo. I have written reviews on their debut…
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ObscureI’ll be the first to admit – the new millennium has been rough for Full Moon Features. The…
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ObscureI will be honest – Knock at the Cabin wasn’t on my radar at all. Ever since the Covid-19…
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ObscureIt is appropriate I am writing my review of Last Night in Soho immediately after writing my review of The…
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ObscureLeatherface is an American horror film directed by Juliet Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, who were, in all honestly, the most appealing…
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ObscureI had not heard a lot about Lucky ahead of the fact. The film premiered on the Shudder streaming service on March…
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ObscureLumberjack Man is a horror-comedy film directed by Josh Bear, whose previous work includes Splosion Man and Comic Jumper, neither of which are horror. (or films,…
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ObscureMachete is a 2010 American action-comedy film written, produced, and directed by Robert Rodriguez and also directed by…
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ObscureJames Wan is a favorite on the Nickelbib. The famous director started in his career with the Seven-esque film Saw, introducing a horror…
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ObscureThe 1980 film Maniac is one I have heard of many times and have always neglected to watch, relegating the…
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ObscureI don’t know if you knew this or not, but I don’t actually review every film I…
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ObscureSouth Korea is the absolute domain for darkly detailed storytelling and methodical characters. Directors like Park Chan-Wook and films like I Saw…
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ObscureMonsters in a 2010 British science fiction film, written, shot and directed by Gareth Edwards, other wise known for…
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ObscureVideogames and movies don’t always go hand in hand like you might expect they would. Gun to your…
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ObscureMurder in the Dark is a 2013 horror whodunnit written and directed by Dagen Merill (Beneath) and is amongst After Darks’ 8 Films…
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ObscureEncase you’re unaware, I’ve made a commitment to review all the films from Charles Bands’ Deadly Ten series –…
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ObscureI have been reviewing a lot of new releases lately, films like The Maze Runner and Interstellar…
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ObscureI don’t really have enough words to tell everything that I want to in this review, and that…
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ObscureThe horror genre is ripe with sequels to films that, in-retrospect, feel like open-and-shut stories. Series that don’t in-fact…
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ObscureOrphan is a film I hadn’t thought about since its release back in 2009. The initial reaction I had was…
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ObscureP2 is a 2007 American/Canadian horror thriller film directed by Franck Khalfoun, written and produced by Khalfoun, Alexandre Aja and Gregory Levasseur.…
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ObscurePeacock is a 2010 American psychological thriller film directed by Michael Lander. Written by Lander and Ryan Roy,…
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ObscureRabies and germs, I didn’t really know what to expect whenever I discovered Perfume on a shelf at…
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ObscurePhantasm is a film I felt like I would never watch. For all intents and purposes, it lands…
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ObscurePod is a 2015 horror-thriller film directed by Mickey Keaton (2015 also brought his horrorfilm, Darling), starring Larry Fessender (I Sell the Dead and Jug Face), Lauren Ashley Carter (Jug…
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ObscureI love horror films. I don’t think that’s something that will strike any long-time readers of The ‘Bib…
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ObscureAfter the eleventh film in the Puppet Master mainline series, Full Moon Features has begun applying itself to making spin-off sequels – first seen with 2020‘s Blade: The…
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ObscureConsidering this is Full Moon Magic Mondays!, something anyone loosely familiar with Full Moon Features had to…
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ObscureFull Moon Features is a low-budget horror company, and with that, it has found a niche audience and…
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ObscureJustin Benson and Aaron Scott Moorhead have been on my radar awhile now. I could rattle off a handful of recommendations,…
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ObscureIn 2005, Twisted Pictures was on the map and distributor Lions Gate knew they had struck franchise gold, neither of them had…
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ObscureIn 2006, the Saw franchise was at its peak in-terms of popularity and mainstream appeal. Arguments raged…
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ObscureIn 2007, the Saw franchise was on cloud nine after Saw III set a new ceiling for…
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ObscureIn 2008, the Saw brand continued to expand with a fifth installment. After the series high of Saw III, the fourth…
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ObscureIn 2009, the Saw film franchise had shown the first chinks in its armor the year prior with…
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ObscureThe Saw franchise and I have a tumultuous relationship with one another. Although I can absolutely, absolutely recognize the many,…
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ObscureIn 2004, Leigh Whannell and James Wan aligned with each other for the first installment in the Saw film series, with Whannell devising…
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ObscureI was very excited when a fifth Scream film was officially announced. As anyone who regulars Nickelbib can vouch, I am…
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ObscureSee For Me is a Canadian thriller film directed by Randall Okita, whose work I was, prior to, unfamiliar with. The film…
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ObscureShiver is a film I went into blindly, stumbling on it while browsing the free Tubi streaming service. It is a…
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ObscureSinister did something a lot of horror films fail to do lately, … it was actually unsettling and well-made…
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ObscureSkyline is a 2010 science fiction film produced and directed by Brothers Strause, other-wise known for their work in…
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ObscureI was excited about the film Smile, and I was excited to both watch and write about the film.…
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ObscureSnowpiercer is a 2013 science fiction action film based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand, and Jean-Marc Rochette. This is a…
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ObscureSpeak No Evil is a film I had on my radar, but one I was apprehensive to pursue for…
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ObscureOriginally scheduled for release in the Summer of last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it has been…
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ObscureSplice is a 2009 Canadian-French science-fiction thriller film directed by Vincenzo Natali, other-wise known for his work with Cube, Nothing, and…
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ObscureI can’t say Subspecies made a large impression on me as a kid discovering Full Moon Features for the first time. In…
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ObscureA year after Deadly Blessing, Wes Craven wrote and directed a film I’m actually very excited to watch and talk…
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ObscureSomething I have wanted to do for a while on Nightmare Shift is talk about South Korean cinema in a significant,…
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ObscureIn 2015, I discovered a low-budget anthology film called All Hallows’ Eve. This was the first feature length appearance of Damien Leone’s character Art the…
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ObscureIn 1978, Jamie Lee Curtis became a horror mainstay after her breakthrough performance in John Carpenter‘s slasher film Halloween. Jamie Lee Curtis has…
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ObscureDirected by the late Tobe Hooper, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was a revelation in many respects for the horror genre. As a matter…
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ObscureAs excited as I am to watch the newest Scream, or, perhaps, the next A Nightmare on Elm Street, I…
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ObscureThe Boy Behind the Door was a film I didn’t have on my queue. Written and directed by David Charbonier and Justin…
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ObscureThe Brides of Dracula is a 1960 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher and acts as a sequel to the 1958 film Dracula.…
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ObscureThe Burning is a 1981 slasher horror film directed by Tony Maylam and written by Peter Lawrence and Bob Weinstein. (Bob, of course, would go onto…
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ObscureThe Conjuring series has been around for a while now, hasn’t it? What started with James Wan‘s initial supernatural…
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ObscureThe Crazies is a 2010 American horror film directed by Breck Eisner. The director is relatively new, however,…
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ObscureThe 1997 film The Creeps was written by Benjamin Carr (not that Benjamin Carr, … but the screenwriter of our last Full Moon Feature film Head…
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ObscureIn 1994, The Crow set the world ablaze in the outline of a blackbird, raking in a lot of dough and…
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ObscureOn December 28th, 1997, the WCW World Heavyweight Champion “Hollywood” Hulk Hogan went head-to-head with “The Icon” Sting at Starrcade. For those of you that aren’t wrestling…
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ObscureThe Conjuring Universe has taken the world by storm, becoming one of the highest-grossing horror series’ of all-time.…
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ObscureThe Exorcist is, without a doubt, one of the most influential horror films ever made. This stands regardless of whatever some schmuck…
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ObscureOnce upon a time, there was a movie called The Family, starring the studded cast of Robert Deniro,…
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ObscureAbout five years ago, I happened upon this film The Final, wedged unceremoniously into a horror pack for…
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ObscureThe Purge first arrived in 2013, bolstering the brilliant premise of an event in time where all crime would be…
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ObscureThe Forest is a 2016 supernatural horror film directed by Jason Zada, and starring Natalie Dormer. Being the first wide-release horror film…
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ObscureI have been clear about my intentions for Full Moon Magic Mondays! and how it isn’t meant…
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ObscureThe internationally co-produced horror drama film The Golden Glove is a lot to take in. Directed by Fatih Akin, the film is an adaptation of…
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ObscureFive years after The Last House on the Left, Wes Craven made his sophomore effort – a…
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ObscureThree years ago, The Mummy single-handedly introduced and canceled the Universal Dark Universe franchise in an expensive misfire of a Tom Cruise action…
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ObscureMartin Scorsese has been a major topic of discussion on the internet over the last few months. This…
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ObscureThe Killer Eye is a Full Moon Feature film directed by David DeCoteau, starring Jacqueline Lovell and Jonathan Norman. It is the…
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ObscureWes Craven’s career begins in 1972, with a film called The Last House on the Left. An exploitation film, The House on…
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ObscureThe Last Matinee is a 2020 Spanish-language film (an Uruguayan and Argentian co-production, in fact) directed by Maximiliano Contenti. I was…
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ObscureThe Menu is a film I had heard a lot about, but couldn’t say I was particularly…
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ObscureDirected by Charles Band of Full Moon Features, Meridian: Kiss of the Beast is a film I knew I would…
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ObscureLike I imagine is the case for many of you, I look forward to punching out the…
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ObscureThe Neighbor is a 2016 crime thriller film directed by Marcus Dunstan and written by Dunstan and frequent collaborator Patrick Melton. Both names likely sound…
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ObscureThe Conjuring series arrived unexpectedly in 2013, although, in-retrospect, it seemed like we should have anticipated it. James Wan had already…
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ObscureThe Perfection is an example of a film I knew nothing about heading in, had modest expectations of, and…
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ObscureI haven’t written about Full Moon Features in awhile, and so, I decided that was something I needed to rectify.…
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ObscureThe Poughkeepsie Tapes is a 2007 documentary-style horror film directed by John Erick Dowdle, otherwise known for genre fare like As Above…
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ObscureLet’s be honest, the horror genre has been on a downward spiral for a very long time,…
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ObscureI haven’t posted a review of a horror-film in a while. In-part, that’s because I have been…
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ObscureLike many of you, I find my available time to watch movies becoming scarcer and scarcer the older…
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ObscureI’ve written about The Skin I Live In prior on the Nightmare Shift, but that seven years ago. Back then, we…
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ObscureAnother day, another slasher film. Such is the life working on the Nightmare Shift. Tonight’s feature is The Slumber Party Massacre. This…
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ObscureThe Veil is a 2016 horror film directed by Phil Joanou (first film in about a decade, his last film was Gridiron Gang in 2006), released January…
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ObscureOne would be forgiven if they said they’d never heard of or caught the slightest whiff of The Wind.…
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ObscureThe Woman in the Window was a film I did not know a lot about. Sometimes though, that is…
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ObscureWhen the first season of Tokyo Ghoul first debuted, I was brought in by the interesting concept and an…
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ObscureTourist Trap is an interesting film. I have seen a lot from Empire International Pictures, like Re-Animator and From Beyond. I have…
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ObscureEvery now and again, as a (mostly) horror reviewer, I feel the need to dip…
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ObscureKevin Smith has become a very polarizing and divisive figure in the film industry as of late. Several films…
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ObscureI’ll be honest with you; Jordan Peele was never on my radar as a movie fan. I knew of him, as…
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ObscureI don’t speak for everyone, but I haven’t thought a lot about the Marvel Cinematic Universe in recent years. Although…
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ObscureI don’t think it’d be an understatement to say I set my bar of expectations very low for Venom.…
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ObscureThe minute that you step into the theater, you know that what you’re going to experience is, at…
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ObscureI was excited to write about Watcher in spite of the fact I knew nothing about the film. This is…
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ObscureIn some respects, I was excited for Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey. In most respects I wasn’t, but, in some respects, I…
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ObscureIn January of this year, I revealed my intent to review the Wrong Turn series, one-by-one, because I was blown…
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ObscureIt might surprise you to learn that I have never seen any of the Wrong Turn films. I…
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ObscureSometimes I don’t always write about the most recent film I watched on Netflix or Hulu, or at…
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ObscureIn 2017, the Saw series was a hazy memory, a blood-coated fever pitch dream filled with contrivances, twists and turns,…
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ObscureThe original Escape Room was what I would call a popcorn horror film, meant to get-in, meet a low-expectation, and…
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ObscureIn 2010, the Saw series cemented itself as one of the most successful horror series’ in history, with the seventh installment…
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ObscureI was interested when I first saw Totally Killer was being added to Hulu. Although I don’t…
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ObscureAlthough 1964‘s British horror film Nightmare might feel out of the blue to many of you, looking back at it serves an actual,…
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ObscureThough 1999’s Blair Witch Project is widely recognised as the first “found footage” film (I’d argue that Cannibal…
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ObscureThe Academy Awards receive a lot of criticism and stigma in regards to elitism and exclusivity for what they…
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ObscureJagged Edge Productions has been working fast at capitalizing on all the intellectual properties that have hit the…
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ObscurePitch Black is a 2000 science fiction thriller film co-written and directed by David Twohy, who eventually served as…
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ObscureIn the UK we do not have the PG-13 certificate. Up until 1989 we had U, PG, 15 and 18. When Tim Burton’s…
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ObscureThe 1987 film Prison is the horror debut of Renny Harlin, who would go onto direct the fourth…
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ObscureI am a little nervous to write about Puppet Master III: Toulon’s Revenge. I have written about a lot of…
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ObscurePuppet Master: The Littlest Reich looked like a film capable of ushering in a new wave of interest in…
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ObscureBased on the imagery I had seen bits and pieces of prior, I was looking forward to Random…
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ObscureRe-Animator is one of the reasons I love the genre.
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CultI like all the others. This is the first Scream movie I just don’t like. Its not even…
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CultIt’s crazy to think I am writing about the seventh Scream film. It was always a running gag in…
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ObscureSinister is a film I have written about prior, but have never taken the opportunity to sit down…
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ObscureDirected by Joe Lynch, a filmmaker who I previously discussed with my review of Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (which I found…
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ObscureThere is a sitcom I am a large fan of that you may have heard of. Before Rick…
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ObscureIn late-2013, Damien Leone directed All Hallows’ Eve, his directorial debut, the direct-to-video film comprised itself of short films from…
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ObscureTackling the collection I have of Hammer Horror isn’t the most strategic method of whittling down the backlog of…
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ObscureFound-footage films don’t often receive much praise from critics or audience-members alike, and for a lot of just reasons…
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ObscureThe Dirties is a feature I have meant to write about on Readers Digested for a while, but, for some reason…
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ObscureIn a way, I feel The Good Exorcist and director Josh Stifter are a significant element of Readers Digested (dot) com, at…
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ObscureThe 1986 thriller The Hitcher sees its main-character in a car with a crazed killer.
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CultI have never dabbled in documentaries prior on Readers Digested, but that is not because a lack of interest.…
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CultAs far as documentaries go, The Imposter is hard to beat.
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ObscureAs horror fans, I would speculate most of us enjoy intertextuality on a certain level. In fact,…
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ObscureThe Lost Boys is a window into a decade and an entertaining one at that.
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ObscureOnce upon a time, Fox‘s Marvel X-Men film series was a staple in superhero filmmaking. Introducing what the genre was…
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ObscureThis year, it feels like I have wrote more about videogames than film, which is a real…
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ObscureThe Ring is a film I have meant to talk about for a while and it is, in fact,…
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ObscureWhat can someone say about The Ring Two? Other than the fact that calling a film, not “The…
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ObscureFolks, I was brought up on slasher films, and, because of that, even if, to a fault, I…
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ObscureThere’s Someone Inside Your House is a film I hadn’t had on my radar before I decided to watch…
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ObscureI cautiously placed 2024’s They Turned Us Into Killers on the docket for a review on Readers Digested. As I say…
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ObscureTimecrimes (Spanish: Los Cronocrimenes) is a 2007 science fiction film directed by Nacho Vialondo. The film garnered positive…
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ObscureThe 2017 live action adaptation of Tokyo Ghoul was a surprising success in my opinion. Adapting the anime and manga series (for which, I am…
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ObscureTrancers was one of the film series from Full Moon Features’ catalog that I was most excited to revisit and talk…
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ObscureThere’s a certain method or modus operandi for how I review films on The ‘Bib that has…
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ObscureTrick ‘r Treat is a film I have wanted to talk about for a while, but, for some…
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ObscureThis Wednesday was something of a movie-binge for me. All of the films were released in 2013, and I wrote…
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ObscureUnnatural is a horror film directed by Hank Braxtan (Chemical Peel and Blood Effects) and was written by Ron Carlson and Arch Stanton (screenplay). The flick is one…
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ObscureI watched V/H/S Halloween. Everyone was talking about the Fun Size segment, which sucked. The last one called…
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ObscureWe Are What We Are is a 2013 American horror film directed by Jim Mickle. The film is a…
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ObscureWeedjies! Halloweed Night is a film I normally wouldn’t review on Readers Digested. As much as I enjoy watching…
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Obscuremeta: ADJECTIVE (of a creative work) referring to itself or to the conventions of its genre; self-referential.”the enterprise…
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ObscureI did not know exactly what to think when I first heard the announcement of Willy’s Wonderland. What…
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ObscureWhat do you think of when you think about the Halloween season? Do you have any coveted memories about…
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ObscureWolf Creek is a horror film I have been meaning to review for awhile now on Readers Digested. I can still…
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ObscureI consider myself as having a lot of ongoing “review series” that I do my best to…
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