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Tag Archives: Van Helsing

Second Breakfast Octoberween: The Lives and Deaths of Count Dracula, Part 1

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.…

October 17, 2021 in Movie Review, Octoberween, Second Breakfast.

Second Breakfast: The Surprisingly Likable and Deep ‘Odd Thomas’

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…

March 22, 2015 in Movie Review, Netflix Review, Second Breakfast.

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