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Take The Breakfast Club, add zombies and you have…something hopefully better than Detention of the Dead. Read about it in my review of Detention of the Dead, which hits DVD on Tuesday, July 23.
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In a summer marked by a string of blockbuster flops, The Conjuring further proved this past weekend that bigger isn’t always better. The modestly budgeted ($20 million) haunted house pic finished in first place at the box office, earning an estimated $41.5 million to easily beat blockbuster competition Red 2, R.I.P.D. and Turbo in their opening weekends.
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Although accurate, describing R.I.P.D. as Men in Black meets Ghostbusters would set expectations higher than this clumsy, derivative fare could ever hope to fulfill. Read about it in my review of R.I.P.D.
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Although accurate, describing R.I.P.D. as Men in Black meets Ghostbusters would set expectations higher than this clumsy, derivative fare could ever hope to fulfill. Read about it in my review of R.I.P.D.
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To say that The Conjuring is sort of a cross between The Amityville Horror and The Exorcist might be setting the bar too high, but it is in fact so scary that it basically earned an R rating just because of its fright factor. Read about it in my review of The Conjuring.
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To say that The Conjuring is sort of a cross between The Amityville Horror and The Exorcist might be setting the bar too high, but it is in fact so scary that it basically earned an R rating just because of its fright factor. Read about it in my review of The Conjuring.
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It doesn’t hit theaters until tomorrow, but The Conjuring is getting such great buzz (and it cost so little money) that New Line is already working on a sequel. The second film probably won’t be directly tied to the haunting in The Conjuring; rather, it will likely follow the continuing true-life exploits of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, whose world-renowned exploits have included the cases that inspired The Amityville Horror and The Haunting in Connecticut. Brothers Chad and Carey Hayes, who wrote the first film (in addition to House of Wax, The Reaping and Whiteout), have already signed on for the sequel, but with director James Wan moving on to Fast & Furious 7, he may find it difficult to return.
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With their low budget and low tech "found footage" approach, the Paranormal Activity films have notoriously quick production turnaround times -- there have been four films in four years, after all -- but as the latter half of July approaches, there has been even less movement than normal behind the scenes of Paranormal Activity 5. In fact, not only has filming not begun on the sequel, but there isn't even a script or an officially announced director yet.
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When any horror comedy comes out of the UK, it will inevitably be compared in many people's minds to Shaun of the Dead, but the Irish film Grabbers actually has more in common with an American movie -- Tremors -- and like that film, it's a monstrous good time. Read about it in my review of Grabbers.
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