Tag Archive: Brad Dourif
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Critters 4
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Critters 4 was shot back to back with Critters 3 just like Back to the Future parts 2 and 3. Like Back To The Future part 2, Critters 3 also ends with a cliffhanger. Bounty hunter Charlie is ordered to put the last two remaining Crite eggs into a pod for preservation. Critters 4 picks…
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Halloween
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The 00s were a decade of remakes when it comes to slasher movies. Friday the 13th, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Amityville Horror, A Nightmare on Elm Street al were remade between 2003-2010. Even the movie responsible for kicking off the slasher boom in the late 70s got a “reinvisioning” by Rob Zombie: Halloween.
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Cult of Chucky
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Back in the day sequels to horror movies were a a dime a dozen. As soon as an original horror movie raked in enough dough, the sequels kept on coming until they ran out of steam. Popular franchises like A Nightmare On Elm Street, Friday The 13th and Hellraiser all had movies released on a…
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Curse of Chucky
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After years of rumors about a remake another sequel is released upon the public. Curse Of Chucky is the 6th movie in a franchise that hit rock bottom twice. First there was Child’s Play 3 that was generally hated and seemingly put a nail into the coffin, then it was Seed of Chucky which put…
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Seed of Chucky
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The spark that reignited the Child’s Play franchise was the hilarious Bride of Chucky in 1998. It’s followed six years later by Seed of Chucky which continues the tongue-in-cheek element and brings back Jennifer Tilly in both human and doll form. Like Wes Craven’s New Nightmare and Scream 2 and 3, Seed of Chucky brings…
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Bride of Chucky
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You can’t keep a good horror icon down. The current trend is remakes and so last few years we saw Michael, Leatherface, Freddy and Jason all appear in “re-imaginings” of their 70s and 80s original movies. That was different back in 1996 when every famous slasher had their last onscreen breath, Freddy had his final…
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Child’s Play 3
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Child’s Play 3 has gotten a bad rep over the years. It was the movie that killed the franchise until Scream started a horror-revival and we got Bride Of Chucky, it was also falsely reported to have influenced two kids to murder toddler James Bulger in 1993, and it was panned by critics upon its…
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Child’s Play 2
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The black remains of melted rubber are being scraped of metal, an eye is removed, teeth are scraped clean. Now only a head, every other missing part is replaced, but when the eyes supposed to be placed in the head the machine malfunctions and releases high doses of electricity in the eye sockets. And like…
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
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The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans is not a direct remake nor a sequel to the grim 1992 movie starring Harvey Keitel as a drug and gambling addicted cop who abused his power to get away with illegal things. But they do cover the same material as in this movie Nicolas Cage…
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Halloween II
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With a deep timbre the voice in the trailer for Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2 tells us “Rob Zombie completes his extreme vision of a terrifying legend”. That vision however, he should have kept for himself, because after a decent re-imagining of the first movie Zombie absolutely fails on bringing a decent second one. Which is…
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Urban Legend
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Urban Legend came out when the Scream influence was peaking and we were covered in slasher-movies. All having better production values than most of the movies from the 80’s and most of them dealing with an intelligent cast actually being aware of any danger surrounding them. If it was the trend in 80’s to have…
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Jungle Fever
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Jungle Fever deals with a married black architect who gets into an affair with a white woman. When the affair goes public his wife throws him out of the house and he moves in with her in an appartment and they have to deal with prejudice and racism from all sides. But what about the…
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