Octoberween X. We’re all feeling very old and learned, looking back on reviews we posted and opinions we had a decade ago and wondering why we had them. As I scroll through the Rooster Illusion backlog and time and memory dreg up ponderous questions about this and that, one in particular confounds me: how, in…
By 1958, American movie studios had largely gravitated away from the classic monsters that ruled the horror genre in the ’30s and ’40s. Until slashers became dominant in the late 1970s, American horror merged in elements of sci-fi, and plucky young heroes battled aliens and nuclear mutants instead of the supernatural, for the most part.…
IMDb reckons about 9400 movies came out in 2014. By my count, under 100 of them might be worth seeing. The fact of the matter remains that people make bad movies. People make a lot of bad movies. In fact, most of what you run into out there in the great wide world of cinema…
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