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Nat Brehmer

3 years

A lot of people have asked me (and THANK YOU for your continued interest) so after three years and occasionally wondering if the day would ever come myself, it feels damn good to finally be able to say these words: PRE-ORDER NOW:

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God, do I miss the era of extravagant, expensive, excessive period horror.

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Mystique served as a United States senator for three years between the first two X-MEN movies. By all accounts, she was way better at the job than the actual Senator Kelly. And by influencing policy, was probably more helpful to mutants on a national scale than any X-Man.

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What happened with Dark Universe is so fascinating to me because we've never seen anything like it. This wasn't even the first attempt. Far from! Universal kept making monster reboots that were meant to start something. None of them ever did. Let's go over the history (thread)

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Witness the beginning of a #DarkUniverse .

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It's hard to believe or even explain to people now that we had a whole decade of throwback pulp hero blockbusters in the '90s.

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*James Wan walks into his home, turns on the lights and jumps at the sight of Guillermo del Toro sitting at the table* del Toro: “bitch what the fuck”

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James Wan is developing a film adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft’s ‘THE CALL OF CTHULHU.’ ()

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Why did we ever stop lighting movies like this

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‘80s horror movie novelizations.

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‘70s horror movie paperbacks.

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In the 1980s, movies would sometimes just have a guy like this. No particular reason. Not one word to address why he is the way that he is or even draw attention to it. Just a weird little cackling gremlin guy.

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I almost want to write about THE DREW CAREY SHOW and how wild it is that you can have a long running sitcom, one of the funniest of all time, pulling off almost SIMPSONS level gags on live-action budgets with shit like the Monkapotamus... and pretty much just disappear.

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Dear Sam Raimi, please bring back goth Lucy Lawless for DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS.

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Just thinking about that incredible moment in BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON when the whole movie shifts on its axis as it finally sinks in for the documentary crew that this is actually going to happen and they are about to be accomplices to murder.

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What's an example of a genre parody that ends up being a good execution of the genre?

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VAN HELSING is an obvious place to start because it was a blockbuster monster mash of Universal Monster icons. In a "cinematic universe" world, it would now probably the movie that other movies build toward. Famously, it didn't do great.

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NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET novels.

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Finally, there was a silver lining. After THE MUMMY, we got Leigh Whannell's fantastic THE INVISIBLE MAN. No universe. No big picture. No blockbuster budget. Just a movie. But then, when it was successful and people really liked it, they just had to do what they do...

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Given the massive success of THE MUMMY from the same director, Universal had expected VAN HELSING to be a surefire hit. They planned a sequel bringing in more monsters, theme park attractions, and a TV series TRANSYLVANIA to launch in the fall after the movie's release.

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‘90s horror movie paperbacks.

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And so for 20 years they've had attempts to Start a Thing with every new take on the Universal Monsters, getting ahead of themselves every single time, this vicious cycle that is wild to witness as each thing has carried its own scrapped slate with it. And yet I'll always show up

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We had Russell Crowe as Dr. Jekyll, Javier Bardem as the Frankenstein Monster, Tom Cruise as Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp as the Invisible Man and Sofia Boutella as The Mummy, plus Angelina Jolie doing BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN with Bill Condon. HUGE Hollywood names, it must be stressed.

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A-list stars took to the Dark Universe like a space religion whose leader's wife hasn't been seen in public in 16 years, but when THE MUMMY, once again, did not do wonders critically or financially, the Dark Universe was pretty literally dead on arrival.

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The single funniest thing BEETLEJUICE 2 could do is open with his number being called in the waiting room.

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After the VAN HELSING universe was scrapped, Universal embraced the remake trend of the '00s and decided on (at least comparatively) more straightforward updates of their classics. Starting with THE WOLFMAN, which was famously troubled LONG before it ever hit the screen.

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So a TV monsterverse didn't work. But in 2014 the MCU was everything. This was it! DRACULA UNTOLD was explicitly meant to be the start of a monster universe. In fact, it underwent reshoots just to be that, to throw in references to other monsters and tease the promising future.

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🎃🖤 HALLOWEEN novelizations 🖤🎃

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While not meant to kick off a universe, per se, WOLFMAN was meant to be the first of a bunch of lavish monster remakes. While it was in production, Universal was developing CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON with Breck Eisner, and had begun talking with Del Toro about FRANKENSTEIN.

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Folks, I sold a script. More than that, I sold The Big One. The one I want to see made and that I've been championing more than anything else I've ever written. The one I want to make more than any IP I could ever dream of working on. THE script closest to my heart. The Big One.

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This is when things started to stick out like a sore thumb. After it came out, they said "Just kidding!" that wasn't really the start of our shared universe. The next movie, THE MUMMY will be the REAL start of our shared universe.

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With a bloated budget, several release date changes, a director quitting and another coming in, last second rewrites, but adhering to a shooting schedule already in place, THE WOLFMAN kind of had its fate etched on its palm before it ever even hit theaters.

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With that being the second time they had said this in three years, they needed to show that they were REALLY super serious this time, and may have overcompensated just a bit, revealing an official name and logo, announcing the stars of each film before even the first had come out

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Clearly the attempt to go loosey goosey with just a cool INVISIBLE MAN was out the window. Suddenly, it was gonna be the first of a BUNCH of cool, one-off monster flicks. A slate! Karyn Kusama's DRACULA! Ryan Gosling as THE WOLFMAN! We're not overdoing it, we're playing it cool!

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Neither of those movies happened. OK, so they kept overdoing it with movies and decided to do something small for TV. In 2013, Universal put together a DRACULA limited series for NBC. Just a nice little thing, impossible to overdo. You'd think.

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Early interest was so strong that all of a sudden "limited series" became "season 1" and not only that, they planned on following it with a WOLFMAN series, too. Only lack of viewership and star troubles led a miniseries to become another canceled one season show w/ a cliffhanger.

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In general, my favorite genre of movie is, "the coolest Halloween decoration you saw in 1997 but your parents said was way too scary to put on the lawn starred in its own film."

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They dared to bring back X-MEN: THE ANIMATED SERIES but do they dare to bring back live-action commercials for its tie-in products?

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5 years

Bring back the '90s trend where literally any movie got an action figure series.

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but: the opening to HALLOWEEN 4: THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS.

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Six-Shooter's unmistakable laugh in PUPPET MASTER 3 was provided by Charles Band's father, Albert Band. As a child, Albert fled France at the start of the Nazi occupation. So when you see Six-Shooter mow down Nazis in PM 3, it's the cackle of an actual Nazi survivor.

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Tell me something I don't know 👀

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FRIGHT NIGHT gooey, gruesome, fucking phenomenal FX appreciation post.

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My new theory is that the people who insist Stu's alive and could return for a future SCREAM sequel do not know what a TV weighed in 1996.

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@disturbed1799 Actually have some really good news about that one.

Oscar Isaac, Andrew Garfield And Mia Goth Top Choices To Star In Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Frankenste...

Oscar Isaac also on board

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Love these public domain hooligans selling 30 page $10 paperbacks of a single DRACULA chapter. One of them even has the "Now a major motion picture" sticker, I'm losing it 🤣

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Dear CHUCKY Season 3: Please.

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It is horror movies and spooky Oreos time, I absolutely love this for me.

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Folks, I'm a little stunned right now. I've been writing screenplays literally half my life at this point. This has been the path I have always, always had in mind for myself. Roundabout way of saying... I've just received my first paycheck for writing a feature film.

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Okay, hear me out. This is the one and only shot where the mask looks like this. And when they next see Michael it's in a totally different part of the school. THIS IS BEN TRAMER'S GHOST.

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Mad love for Clive Barker, who was asked to tone down the queerness of almost everything he wrote, going all the way back to THE BOOKS OF BLOOD, and every single time said "lol fuck off." Absolute legend.

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Babe come over and we'll make that TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 promotional chili.

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HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II, the masterpiece that you are.

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@ScottMendelson I'd imagine everybody found out, and it's probably a big factor as to why the tide's turned so much back against mutants (and why she's on the run with Magneto) in the third movie. The anti-mutant crowd isn't gonna let "anti-mutant senator was killed & replaced by mutants" go.

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Michael Myers murdered his sister on October 31st, 1963 and was sent to Smith's Grove Sanitarium where he sat and stared at a wall for 15 years. THE MUNSTERS premiered on September 24th, 1964. Michael Myers never got to see THE MUNSTERS.

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I so badly wish BLAIR WITCH '16 had been a huge hit. I want more movies to have that "THE WOODS" approach. Give me more bait and switch flicks. I want to be in a theater opening night discovering in real time that the horror movie I showed up for is actually the new HELLRAISER.

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Alright, so, I was there. He wasn't even asked about a sequel, he was asked who was the thing at the end, and said "I've been sworn to secrecy, there might be a THING 2, I don't know if there will be, but maybe..." it was so offhand and such a non-announcement.

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John Carpenter says a direct sequel to ‘THE THING’ may be happening. (Source: )

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In 1899 DRACULA received an Icelandic translation. But the translator actually rewrote the entire book, completely reimagined the plot, and nobody caught it for over 100 years.

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Tell me a random fact about anything..

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1987 Freddy Krueger Fan Club Ad

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Sometimes I miss the "decrepit but sexy" visual style of 2000s horror, where everything looked like an Abercrombie photoshoot in a burned out building. Equal parts slimy and shiny. I'm suddenly nostalgic for that whole grimegloss aesthetic.

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Bring back the Horror Hall of Fame Awards.

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Ah yes, the five food groups.

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I came here to say just one thing, and that is: William Jackson Harper as Herbert West, please.

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DEMETER is essential to the DRACULA tale to remind us that it's first and foremost about the horrors of moving. You gotta pack up your belongings and your crates of special dirt and you gotta travel with it because if you don't you just KNOW they're gonna lose your special dirt.

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FRIDAY THE 13TH novels.

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Being an adult means you can just turn your home into a horror video store and nobody can stop you.

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If you ask me what I was doing in the summer of 2003, the answer is making wallpapers on the FREDDY VS. JASON website and that's it.

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@slimyswampghost When I was watching TOURIST TRAP a week or so ago, it kind of hit me for the first time just how deeply unsettling the tagline is. It's just "Every year young people disappear" and that's it, no follow up.

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PUPPET MASTER turns 35 this year, and while I should wait to do this closer to the anniversary in October, it's on my mind now. Here's a thread of things you may not know about that original film.

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Old-school horror home video ads to bless the Friday timeline

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What's astonishing about wading through the great "Dracula on a boat" memes is how many people aren't in on the joke. Like, the boatfuls of people who are completely unaware that "Dracula on a boat" has been a sequence in almost every Dracula movie. He was never not on a boat.

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PSA for anyone who still needs it: this Very Good Boy, PROJECT METALBEAST, is now streaming on Amazon Prime. I literally once planned to do a "Project Metalbeast" report to give weekly updates that it was still not streaming anywhere because I was so sure this would never happen.

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Tag yourself, I'm the OFFICIAL HELLRAISER thermos.

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How it started / how it's going

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Man, Twitter's really trying hard tonight to make me think about putting in my DVD of MEET JOE BLACK for the first time in probably 15 years.

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The novelization of FREDDY VS JASON mistakenly refers to Freddy's glove as having 5 knives through the entire book. It's adapting a screenplay. Which means every time Stephen Hand saw "four slashes", "four knives" etc. in the script, he corrected it, thinking "these fools."

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@simonjuj I think with RENFIELD and LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER, Universal has finally embraced a "let's just make one movie and see how it goes without worrying about connecting them" approach, given that they're releasing two completely unrelated Dracula movies in the same year.

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I have no nostalgia for Blockbuster, I know all the discourse, but there was a Blockbuster pop up experience at the fair tonight and to actually browse any video store again, especially one made entirely out of old video store inventory, was a phenomenal time.

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Outside of the (pretty bad) first season, it's not available to stream anywhere, and I'm pretty sure that's also the only season that was put on DVD. It ran for nine goddamn years.

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@tannerlafond BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992) MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN (1994) INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (1994) SLEEPY HOLLOW (1999)

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@ManInTheBoxXIII Man, Archive is a wonderful resource. But it also highlights the problem, like, it shouldn't have to a "pop up on archive until it's taken down again" show, that show should be *thriving* on Hulu.

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I cannot tell you how much I'm here for the "big swing" era of revitalizing classic franchises with new settings, characters, themes and ideas. I used to dream about this.

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THE NIGHT FLIER remains a banger Stephen King adaptation. Low budget, mean, with a perfectly sleazy Miguel Ferrer performance and fantastic KNB effects. A surreal and unsettling ending is just the cherry on top.

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Why don't we have a modern giallo starring Christina Ricci? For that matter, why don't we have, like, ten?

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QT with a pic of you as a child that exudes the same energy as you today.

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QT with a pic of you as a child that exudes the same energy as you today. I, for example, have had the lifelong aura of a motivational speaker living off a steady diet of government cheese in a van down by the river

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Happy 20th anniversary, you beautiful son of a bitch.

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Every time there's a BEYOND BELIEF supercut, it's my favorite day on Twitter.

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I made this for no one and no reason. Plz Enjoy.... "Jonathan Frakes Asks You Things"

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Thinking about Halloween 1998, the year I went as the Kenner KB Toys Exclusive Gorilla Alien.

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Now that I've finally seen THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER, let me say holy FUCK. I loved it. God, I loved it. Øvredal is real fucking good at his job, folks. Not only scary, but nasty, tense, brutal, but almost hopeful at the same time. Nails the vibe but still stands on its own.

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Merry BATMAN RETURNS Eve

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Happy FREDDY’S NIGHTMARES Day! This is gonna mark the thread as I begin my marathon of the series.

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Pitch: SALEM, MA. It's a MA sequel where she takes a new job at the witch museum.

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I am becoming addicted to this particular kind of making-of book.

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I've retreated into comfort horror flicks. I love SCARECROWS. My favorite thing is the way the farm just comes alive when they get there and basically goes to sleep again when they leave, like the place itself is hungry and waiting.

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Halloween Pinhead is probably one of the all time great toy variants.

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Folks, the world’s greatest Halloween decorations have arrived.

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OK. Now do a movie about the plane that carried Dracula in THE MONSTER SQUAD.

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The young adult novel HALLOWEEN: THE MAD HOUSE is the rare story in the franchise to not actually be set on Halloween. It’s about a group of student filmmakers livening up their summer by shooting a documentary at the abandoned Smith’s Grove, only to find it occupied by Michael.

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TRANCERS is great for answering the age-old question "What if you did BACK TO THE FUTURE before BACK TO THE FUTURE, but instead of Marty McFly it's Deckard from BLADE RUNNER and also there are zombies and it's a Christmas movie?"

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OH SHIT

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JASON LIVES has, for my money, the best opening of the series. PURE EC Comics energy. A rotting corpse rising from the grave on a stormy night. It is pure pulpy gothic throwback and sets the mood for the whole movie. I love it so much.

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NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1990) has, to this day, the absolute deadest zombies I have ever seen in a movie. It's the closest zombies have ever come to looking like actual walking corpses. John Vulich and crew did a phenomenal job on the makeup.

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I just love THE HOWLING so fucking much.

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I am begging Universal to bring back this era.

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Everything about MALIGNANT down the the smallest detail makes it feel like a genuine, lost early 2000s Dark Castle movie. It's not just the wild tone, but the color palette, the opening credits, everything.

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