Horror Movies

Just when I thought I had found a slam dunk – a documentary about one of my favorite films of all time, The Shining – I quickly realized that Room 237 was not the film I expected and wanted to be.  Room 237, so titled for the infamous room from The Shining, takes an interesting approach to the subject matter, gathering an assortment of eccentric lovers of the film who all have various theories on its deeper meanings.  Like the film being about the oppression of the Native Americans to Hitler’s persecution of the Jews to even stranger interpretations.

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Limbs will be removed. Tongues will be cut. Heads will be chainsawed. The Evil Dead remake is here, and it is one of the goriest movies ever put to film. But is it, as the marketing has so boldly promised, "the most terrifying film you will ever experience"? The answer is a clear "no," but it still serves as a mildly entertaining splatterfest – as long as you find limbs being forcibly removed, tongues getting cut and chainsaws impaling heads entertaining.

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Katie and her favorite demonic soul buddy are at it again, this time tormenting a Facetime-loving piece of jailbait and her family because they made the mistake of adopting a boy who is marked by the Devil. Common problem, and it usually doesn’t result in the number of deaths that occur here. It’s Paranormal Activity 4, folks, and it’s nothing you haven’t seen before.

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What is the worst thing you’ve ever experienced? After ten adaptations, sequels and remakes, the house at 112 Ocean Avenue gets another theatrical treatment, this time in the form of a documentary that focuses on Daniel Lutz, the stepson of George Lutz and one of the individuals who experienced firsthand what happened in Amityville. It’s My Amityville Horror, and it makes the worst thing you’ve ever experienced look like a walk in the park.

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Jennifer Lawrence starred in three major theatrical releases in 2012. One was The Hunger Games, which made $700 million worldwide. Another was Silver Linings Playbook, which earned her an Oscar. And then there was House at the End of the Street. Yeah.

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The next Twilight franchise is here, but with a twist:  Beautiful Creatures, about a teenage boy who is drawn to a strange girl who has a strange family (sound familiar?), actually has intelligent writing. Shocking. Breathtaking. And kind of fun.

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It turns out that monsters are more afraid of us than we are of them, according to the animated comedy Hotel Transylvania. Too bad that Monsters, Inc. already tackled this twist of reality ten years earlier.

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With growing acceptance of the gay community and a trend toward equal rights for all, is it already time to shift our focus to a new kind of discrimination? Zombies are an underappreciated and stereotyped bunch, generally assumed to be lacking in intelligence and having an overzealous lust for human flesh. There are no laws against killing zombies; in fact, it is actively encouraged by every government body except for North Korea and Switzerland.

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Sometimes you just wish the witch had won. After surviving the candy house and the evil witch within, Hansel and Gretel have grown up to be two attractive witch hunters who like to swear, kill witches and repeatedly get the shit beaten out of them. Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton star in the wannabe franchise starter Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, a movie that suffers from painfully clunky dialogue and, amazingly, too much action.

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"When is Mama coming to theaters? I want it to be released so I don’t have to watch those freaky trailers anymore." That’s a question/statement I’ve received multiple times over the last week, and one that really says it all: the trailers for Mama are some of the scariest to hit theaters in a long time. However, the more important question is: does Mama live up to the marketing?

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Why are movies presented by respectable directors always so lackluster? Sam Raimi for some reason "presented" The Possession, a movie that begs another question: do we really need yet another movie about a little girl being possessed by a demon?

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I grew out of love with Tim Burton long ago, in reverse correlation to the box office success the director has seen over the last decade. But it’s his smaller, more reserved movies that continue to impress me – Big Fish back in 2003, and now Frankenweenie, a stop-motion capture film that did little from a financial perspective but deserves recognition nonetheless.

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