As critics’ prizes and award body nominations are announced, let’s take a moment to acknowledge the genre films that will probably be ignored.
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Did the American giallo begin with Alan J. Pakula’s 1972 thriller?
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Forty years ago this week, two movies were released that once again proved that the hybrid of horror and comedy works tremendously well.
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In 1994, both films took a stab at resurrecting a Freddy Krueger-type character. What they ended up doing instead was argue in favor of the horror genre itself.
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Craig R. Baxle’s holiday B-movie (also known as “I Come In Peace”) mixes action, sci-fi, and Christmas cheer, to entertaining effect.
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Long before ‘Oppenheimer,’ two classic genre films dealt (at least implicitly) with the fallout of the bomb.
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With a new “Mission: Impossible” in theaters, a look at the surprising secrets to the series’ ongoing success.
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With “Evil Dead Rise” hitting theaters this weekend, we take a look at the guiding principle of this wildly divergent series.
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In this seriocomic drama, released 30 years ago this month, both Robert De Niro and Bill Murray tinkered with their established personas in ways that would re-direct their careers.
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Did a low-budget sci-fi noir inadvertently start the boom of Christmas action movies in the 1980s?
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These two horror films, made a decade apart, depict the breakdown of society to a degree where reality loses all meaning.
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The guy behind Hitchcock’s title sequences and the man who shot ‘The Godfather’ trilogy only got to direct one movie each, but they just happen to be two of the most unique-looking horror movies ever made.
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