When I started this list a few weeks back, I stated that the number rankings wouldn’t really matter for awhile. These were simply the 100 horror films that had the most profound effect on me and I was going to list most of them arbitrarily. Can I really say that Dracula is the 99th greatest horror...
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I’ve written about so many damn horror movies already that some people have asked me if I’m going to have enough to fill the list. Silly people, of course I am! I’m already bemoaning the films I had to leave out. Anyway, here is the next ten in my countdown. Read parts 1, 2,...
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A small, independent feature called Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice came out this weekend and despite raking in the dollars, it was unanimously panned by critics (read Huey’s take here). I saw the film yesterday and can’t say I disagree with them. It’s a long, torturous, gloomy slog completely lacking wit or coherence....
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Welcome to Part 6 of my countdown of the 100 Greatest Horror Films! We have reached the the top fifty so we are now a little more than halfway through. You can read Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 here. Below, you’ll find films about cannibalistic serial killers, grotesque and beautiful monsters, a...
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Last week saw Netflix drop the second season of a brilliant, critically acclaimed crime drama. Nope, not Daredevil. I’m talking about the outstanding Happy Valley. Adored by critics here and across the pond, the show has failed to catch on with American audiences the way programs like Broadchurch or The Fall have. If those...
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Welcome to Part 5 of my countdown of the 100 Greatest Horror Films! Read Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 here. We are almost to the top 50 folks! This section contains quite a few stories about the Devil. He’s green goo in one film, Robert DeNiro in other, a black goat in the...
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Season two of Daredevil dropped onto Netflix yesterday and I watched all 13 episodes in a binge. To the show’s credit, the time flew by pretty damn quickly. I was a huge fan of season one, being most impressed by Marvel finally willing to go a little darker. The characters were compelling, the fights...
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Welcome to Part 4 of my countdown of the 100 Greatest Horror films! You can reads Parts 1, 2, and 3 right here. Once again, the numbers are basically arbitrary until we get to the top twenty or unless otherwise stated. These are simply the 100 horror films that have had the most profound...
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80. It Follows Not a lot of teen horror films have made the list so far. That’s because most of them understand nothing about teenagers and use them only as fodder for mad slashers. That’s not the case with David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows, which uses a simple and ingenious premise to reflect on...
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People have been talking about Ghostbusters a lot in the past couple of weeks. Not sure why. Whatever the reason, all of this perfectly rational discourse got me thinking: why the hell was Ghostbusters 2 so mercilessly shredded by critics upon its initial release? I remember when I first started taking film criticism seriously,...
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