Tag: US
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Hooptober 8.0 – The Boy Behind the Door (2021)
Being Film #18 for Hooptober 2021 There’s no such thing as an objective review, but I don’t know another way to differentiate my thoughts on the new Shudder exclusive The Boy Behind the Door. I can watch this film and see how well executed it is. The performances are uniformly excellent, the direction is super…
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Hooptober 8.0 – Mortuary (2005)
Being Film #17 for Hooptober 2021 For a director with some many bonafide horror classics under his belt, including one of the greatest horror films of all time, Tobe Hooper got a bit of a bad break. By the time the 90s arrived he was relegated to smaller and smaller films with little opportunity to…
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Hooptober 8.0 – The Wicker Man (1973)
Being Film #16 for Hooptober 2021 You’d think after so many years of being in the public consciousness as well as the insane meme-machine that is the 2006 remake with Nicolas Cage that I would know what I was in for with The Wicker Man. Ladies and gentlemen…I was not. What director Robin hardy and…
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Hooptober 8.0 – Candyman (2021)
Being Film #15 for Hooptober 2021 The new Candyman is a lot of things. Reboot, sequel…sure. But it’s also a clever, brutal investigation into the nature of narrative. So much of a story is shaped by who tells it, who owns it. Watching Nia Dacosta take the original story and twist it into not only…
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Hooptober 8.0 – House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Being Film #14 for Hooptober 2021 After a rough week I decided I needed a break for all the modern gore and guts and decided to turn to a campy favorite I hadn’t seen in a while. William Castle was maybe known more for his gimmicks to pack theaters than the quality of his films,…
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Hooptober 8.0 – Jakob’s Wife (2021)
Being Film #13 for Hooptober 2021 We’ve had several vampire films where the theme of empowerment was front and center, so I’m surprised it took this long to get a film that grounds that in the framework of traditional gender and marriage roles. I’m doubly surprised that Jakob’s Wife not only uses this framework well,…