Tag: 2020s
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Hooptober 12.0 – Together (2025)
Being Film #14 for Hooptober 2025 Tone is such a fickle thing. So hard to maintain, and if you find it too late, it’s nearly impossible to get back and adjust the rest to match, either in reshoots or the edit. Together is a case in point: beautifully acted, some truly gnarly effects work, an…
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Hooptober 12.0 – 28 Years Later (2025)
Being Film #8 for Hooptober 2025 23 years later from 28 Days Later we get 28 Years Later, and while I loved writing that sentence, I didn’t love it as much as I loved the film itself. Danny Boyle and Alex Garland return to their 2002 “fast zombie / don’t call it a zombie film”…
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Hooptober 12.0 – Clown In A Cornfield (2025)
Being Film #7 for Hooptober 2025 Well, it had to happen sooner or later. Not so much a dud as a “well, I was definitely expecting more from this” kind of letdown. Maybe I finally hit the age where I just can’t relate to the kids of today, because despite coming from a guy who’s…
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Hooptober 12.0 – The Black Phone (2021)
Being Film #2 for Hooptober 2025 I had the bar set low for The Black Phone, the latest horror collaboration between the writing/directing team of Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill. On one hand, I wasn’t the biggest fan of either the Sinister films or Deliver Us From Evil, save for the gnarly exorcism. On…
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Hooptober 12.0 – Monster Island (2025)
Being Film #1 for Hooptober 2025 There’s a lot that goes into choosing the first movie in this marathon: do you get the requirements out of the way first? Look at runtimes? Or is it something more ephemeral? I wanted to start with the simple things that made me a fan of the genre as…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Hell Hole (2024)
Being Film #26 for Hooptober 2024 It’s rare, but sometimes the situation just calls for a low budget yet earnest splatterfest involving Lovecraftian cephalopods who get into your body and just…incubate. Then explode your body at the first sign of danger. This was one of those times, and Hell Hole, the latest feature from the…