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Mar 4, 2022
Franchise Friday - Friday the 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter
Although it was designed to finish off the series, we can see in retrospect that Friday the 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter, turns out to...
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Feb 28, 2022
Movie Review - The Phantom of the Opera (1989)
For the guys in the #MutantFam, I’m happy to present the following: a date night horror movie. Now, don’t worry, there’s no musical...
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Feb 27, 2022
Movies Against Whitey! Ganja & Hess
Sure, I could have…and probably will…go with Blacula for our blending of Whitey Wednesday and Vampire Vednesday, but first I thought I’d...
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Feb 25, 2022
Franchise Friday - Friday the 13th Part 3 (in 3D)
So here we are, Friday the 13th Part 3…in 3D. And let’s be clear, the 3D gimmick is the driving force behind a lot of the decisions in...
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Feb 21, 2022
Movie Review - Spiral: From the Book of Saw
I have my brother to blame for my distaste for the Saw franchise. He’d been an aficionado of horror films for as long as I can remember...
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Feb 18, 2022
Franchise Friday - Friday the 13th Part 2
Five years later… The boy was never found. Still, to play it safe, Camp Crystal Lake is off limits for Friday the 13th Part 2. This...
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Feb 14, 2022
Impulse Buy Theater - Killer Sofa
Seriously…like, what the hell is going on down under? Is it something in the water? The food? Just the culture? Because, whatever...
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Feb 11, 2022
Franchise Friday - Friday the 13th (1980)
“Anyone can die at any time.” Of the many ways one can describe the body count of a ‘drive-in movie’, that’s definitely one of the most...
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Feb 10, 2022
Thriller Thursday - Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
Now this is what I’d wanted all along! But the weird thing is…well, wait a sec, let me find a better way to say this: critics definitely...
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Feb 9, 2022
Vampire Vednesday - Dracula (1979)
There are many reasons to get into horror films. Every horror fan will tell you a unique story as to how they came to embrace the genre....
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Feb 7, 2022
Movie Review - Mindwarp
With The Matrix Resurrections having come and gone from Theaters (mostly)…and maybe HBO Max briefly…we turn our attention to a pre-Matrix...
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Apr 26, 2020
Lycanthropy April - The Unliving
It merits saying that many artistic icons, usually way back in the day of say Edgar Allen Poe but some instances pop up nowadays too, die...
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Apr 13, 2020
Lycanthropy April - Dog Soldiers
Night of the Living Dead with Werewolves. Sure, doing the usual “this mixed with that” Hollywood approach sounds like I’m doing this film...
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Aug 29, 2016
Binge 'N' Purge - Ash vs. The Evil Dead
At the end of 2013’s Evil Dead remake, if you sat through the credits there was a brief after credits sequence featuring the man himself,...
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Aug 17, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - Fire City: End of Days
Well, they can’t all be good. While I’m certain that this isn’t the first or the last time an Impulse Buy Theater review goes negative,...
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Jul 4, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - Freaks of Nature
One week. The film was only out for one week. You see, I remember seeing the trailer for Freaks of Nature a week before it was released...
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Feb 24, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - Turbo Kid
What if the Power Glove for the old Nintendo Entertainment System was as cool as your young imagination had hoped? Now, mix that thought...
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Feb 6, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - What We Do In The Shadows
Before we wrap up our Down Under trilogy here on Impulse Buy Theater, be sure to check out part 1, Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead and part 2,...
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Feb 3, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - Deathgasm
Check out part 1 of our Down Under trilogy, Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, here! For part 2 of our Impulse Buy Theater Down Under trilogy,...
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Feb 1, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead
Everything you have or will read or hear about Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead will tell you that it’s ‘Mad Max meets Dawn of the Dead’. ...
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