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‘Baskin’ May be as Close as We’ll Get to a Good Silent Hill Movie

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02 Mar 201622 Apr 2016

While the pull-quotes in the trailer for the Turkish horror film Baskin compare it to Hellraiser, the actual content of the trailer is more reminiscent of the best of the Silent Hill games. It appears to be a story about location that is damnation incarnate, and […]

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And Now a Perfectly Morbid ‘House on Haunted Hill’ Poster

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06 Mar 201506 Mar 2015

The original House on Haunted Hill is one of those horror classics that’s more famous than it is genuinely “good.” It has a 96% rating over on Rotten Tomatoes, but even many of the good reviews are quick to deploy adjectives such […]

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Belated respects to Texas movie theater mogul John Santikos

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12 Jan 201505 Apr 2015

I actually met John Santikos once. I was much younger and was interviewing for an assistant management position with one of this theaters here in San Antonio, a position for which I was grossly, dramatically underqualified. Needless to say, Mr. Santikos made […]

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Halloween Recommendation: Trick ‘r Treat (The movie, not the activity)

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18 Oct 201418 Oct 2014

If you haven’t done so, do yourself a favor and pick up Trick ‘r Treat for annual Halloween viewing. It’s a pretty perfect horror love letter to the season of jack-o-lanterns and gratuitously sexy costumes for the ladies. Anthology horror films are often uneven. […]

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Confessions of a Fearphile: The Blair Witch Project

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23 Mar 201014 May 2020

I understand why a lot of people hated The Blair Witch Project. When it was first released over a decade ago I didn’t understand the negativity, but it didn’t take long for me to figure it out. And no, I’m not blaming […]

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‘Baskin’ May be as Close as We’ll Get to a Good Silent Hill Movie

And Now a Perfectly Morbid ‘House on Haunted Hill’ Poster

Belated respects to Texas movie theater mogul John Santikos

Halloween Recommendation: Trick ‘r Treat (The movie, not the activity)

Confessions of a Fearphile: The Blair Witch Project