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Hooptober 8.0 – The Scooby-Doo Project (1999)
Being Bonus Film #3 for Hooptober 2021 For the final review of Hooptober 8.0 we have a wicked little piece courtesy of Cartoon Network. On the night of Halloween 1999 the channel ran a Scooby Doo marathon, and interspersed between the episodes was The Scooby-Doo Project, a parody of The Blair Witch Project that takes…
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Hooptober 8.0 – J.D.’s Revenge (1976)
Being Bonus Film #1 for Hooptober 2021 We’ve hit the bonus rounds for Hooptober 2021! These will be a little more brief – just general impression of the three “extra credit” films assigned for those who can get through the marathon. First up is J.D.’s Revenge, a blaxploitation horror film that is better than you…
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Hooptober 8.0 – Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (2000)
Being Film #29 for Hooptober 2021 Back when I was a teenager there were these things called video stores. But I didn’t live in the most urban of areas so instead we would rent our VHS tapes from pharmacies and gas stations. Sometimes these places didn’t have the most popular movies, especially in the horror…
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Hooptober 8.0 – Halloween Kills (2021)
Being Film #25 for Hooptober 2021 For some people, there is nothing I can say that will keep them from watching Halloween Kills, the second in a planned trilogy that serves as a slate cleaning sequel to the immortal 1978 classic film. If you’re simply looking for a dozen or so brutal, borderline creative kills…
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Hooptober 8.0 – The Evil Dead (1981)
Being Film #23 for Hooptober 2021 Is there anything left to be said about The Evil Dead? Sam Raimi’s 1981 debut horror has been hailed as one of the greatest horror films of all time, “ferociously original” by none other than the Master of Horror himself, Stephen King. It ushered in the reign of his…
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Hooptober 8.0 – Black as Night (2021)
Being Film #22 for Hooptober 2021 I called a last minute audible for my horror watch when I saw the trailer for Black as Night, the sixth film in the Blumhouse/Amazon partnership under the Welcome to the Blumhouse series. Although it’s a bit reductive to look at this as a “what if Buffy The Vampire…