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Brad Dourif Month Continues With a Loving Look Back at 2004's Seed of Chucky

By the fifth film in the original series, the Child’s Play franchise had gotten ridiculously silly in a most delightful, meta kind of way.

Sub-CultNathan RabinJanuary 10, 2025Brad Dourif, horror, sequel, Scream, Jennifer Tilly

Brad Dourif Month Continues with a Rerun of this Piece on His Epic Turn in 1991's Body Parts

At the request of a very special patron, I take an affectionate look at the wonderfully preposterous Body Parts, a 1991 horror movie from the screenwriter of Near Dark and The Hitcher about a worst-case scenario when receiving a transplant: Murder Arm, a debilitating ailment that makes you want to murder everyone you meet.

In Honor of the Late, Great Tony Todd, I am Rerunning This Piece on Candyman

You know what movie REALLY holds up? The cult classic horror thriller Candyman. What a picture!

Creep 2 Takes the Micro-Franchise In a Fascinatingly Satirical, Meta Direction

The sequel to Creep took the series in a darkly comic, self-referential and very fun direction.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinOctober 9, 2024Mark Duplass, sequel, found footage, horror, Blumhouse

Mark Duplass Is a Memorable Mumblecore Monster in the Nifty 2014 Found Footage Cult Hit Creep

Mark Duplass plays a creep looking for a friend to murder in the nifty 2014 found footage horror film Creep.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinOctober 7, 2024Mark Duplass, horror, found footage, Patrick Bice, serial killer

The 1973 Wicker Man is Just Like the Nicolas Cage Remake, Only Brilliant

1973’s The Wicker Man is a towering classic, a masterpiece of atmosphere and inference. Its remake is not.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJuly 31, 2024Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward, horror, film, classic, Nicolas Cage

The Banana Splits Movie Prankishly Re-Imagined Lovable Costumed Characters as Remorseless Murderers

The Banana Splits Movie ratchets up the creepiness of The Banana Splits Show to horrific extremes.

Best of 2023: In 2022's Surreally Misconceived Halloween Ends Michael Myers Makes a New Halloween Friend in Corey, the Worst Character in the History of Film

It’s all about Corey, baby, in the spectacularly misconceived 2022 stinker Halloween Ends.

My World Of Flops, Great Catch UpNathan RabinDecember 27, 2023Jamie Lee Curtis, Corey, Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, horror, sequel

Before Five Nights at Friday's There Was the 2021 Nicolas Cage vehicle Willy's Wonderland, Which Also Sucked, But Was Slightly Better

It’s Nicolas Cage versus Satanic Chuck E. Cheeses in Willy’s Wonderland, a movie that is ultimately pretty damn silly.

The Travolta/Cage Project, Travolta/CageNathan RabinDecember 4, 2023Nicolas Cage, Chuck E. Cheese, horror, horror thriller

1985's Lifeforce is So Much More than Just the Sexy Naked Lady Vampire from Space Movie (But It's That Too!)

I am please to report that 1985’s Lifeforce, the flop movie about the sexy naked vampire lady from space is not just good: it’s GREAT! You can trust my taste and judgment. After all, I am a Juggalo.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinOctober 16, 2023Patrick Stewart, Tobe Hooper, Mathilda May, flop, Cannon, Yoram Globus, vampire, horror