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The Task (2011)
Filmed in Bulgaria masquerading as upstate New York, this faux reality-show-set-in-a-haunted-prison feature is severely lacking in just about every department. From a generic, no-name cast to a...
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Hannibal Rising (2007)
I’m all over the map after sitting through two-plus hours of Hannibal Rising, an elegantly told “origin story” of the guy who grows up to be flesh-eating foodie Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the...
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Werewolf: The Beast Among Us (2012)
If, like me, you viewed the Hugh Jackman vehicle Van Helsing as mere brain-dead spectacle, then be of good cheer. Werewolf: The Beast Among Us is an efficient example of how to perform genre gene...
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Beneath Loch Ness (2002)
I hate to repeat myself, but I’m going to say it again: If you don’t have a halfway decent onscreen monster, your monster movie is doomed. Doomed I tell you! In the case of Beneath Loch Ness, the best...
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Maniac (2012)
I distinctly remember seeing the original Maniac (1980) at the drive-in the year it came out. It was an especially garish example of grindhouse sleazery directed by William Lustig (Maniac Cop,...
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Devil’s Pass (2013)
With a found-footage narrative similar to The Frankenstein Theory—film crew blunders into a frozen hell searching for answers to an unsolved mystery—Devil’s Pass provides sufficient diversions for an...
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