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'The Exorcist' TV Series Gave Us The Gripping Legacy Sequel That We Didn't Realize We Needed Until It Was Too Late
By Matthew Jackson •The Exorcist: Believer might have flopped, but the Fox show from 2016 remains tragically underrated (and very easy to stream!). -
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Make Your Halloween A Shudder Slasherstravaganza With 'Popcorn' and 'Intruder'
By Matthew Jackson •Combined, the films represent some of the best that the slasher genre has to offer. -
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'The Foot Fist Way' Paved The Way For Danny McBride's Other Rough Hewn Man-Children
By Matthew Jackson •Traces of Kenny Powers, Neal Gamby, and Jesse Gemstone can be found in Fred Simmons, Danny McBride's noxious taekwando instructor. -
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'You're Next' Deserves To Become A Thanksgiving Viewing Tradition
By Matthew Jackson •When it gets dark and everyone else goes to bed, cut a slice of pumpkin pie, and watch You're Next. -
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'Black Roses' Is The Rock 'n' Roll Satanic Panic Horror Gem Your Parents Warned You About
By Matthew Jackson •Black Roses is a charming, wild ride into the heart of teenage transgression. -
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Now That You've Seen 'Halloween Kills,' It's The Perfect Time to Revisit 'Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers'
By Matthew Jackson •There's a real ambition lurking beneath the veneer of franchise restoration. -
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"A Dangerous Girl": Elle Fanning's Incredible 'Neon Demon' Performance, Five Years Later
By Matthew Jackson •The performance could have coasted entirely on her looks, and the precision of Refn's visual language. Instead, Elle Fanning did something sublime. -
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Why an 'Archer' Bottle Episode Is One Of Jessica Walter's Finest Half-Hours
By Matthew Jackson •Only Jessica Walter could make a cartoon episode about a weird sex murder turned chaotic dinner party this compelling. -
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'Home for the Holidays' at 25: The Thanksgiving Movie That Has Everything
By Matthew Jackson • 307 Shares"I'm doing my bird, she's doing hers." -
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'Lake Mungo' Is The Unnerving Found Footage Masterpiece You Need This Halloween
By Matthew Jackson •By the end of the film, you'll be left both thoroughly entertained and unsettled. -
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'Hammer House Of Horror' At 40: All The Show's Best Episodes, Ranked
By Matthew Jackson • 604 SharesThe show still stands as a testament to Hammer's versatility, scrappy determination, and willingness to go all-out for a good horror yarn. -
'The Guest' Perfectly Weaponizes the Spellbinding Niceness of Dan Stevens
By Matthew Jackson •It's a film with a very clear understanding of the powers and appeal of its star. -
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'Antrum' Is The Found Footage Horror Hidden Gem You're Looking For
By Matthew Jackson •The film is not a "found footage" movie in the way Blair Witch Project fans might think. -
It's Cage's sense of abandon, and willingness to hurl himself into the performance that makes him so well-suited to horror films.
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'That Thing You Do!' Is The Perfect Distillation of Hanksian Optimism
By Matthew Jackson •Now, in another uncertain time in American history, we need a hero like the Wonders' drummer, Guy Patterson (Tom Everett Scott). -
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How a Bottle Episode About A Quarantine Lockdown Helped Revitalize 'The West Wing'
By Matthew Jackson • 103 Shares"It was worth it if we'd learn something useful. Did we learn anything…?" -
"Sometimes people just need to be rescued."
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'Dream Warriors' Remains The Apex Of The 'Nightmare On Elm Street' Series
By Matthew Jackson •It's a potent metaphor for mental illness, for addiction, and for plain old pain of any kind. -
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Robin Williams Gave His Finest Performance In 'The Fisher King'
By Matthew Jackson • 136 SharesIt's a beautiful, complex, often staggering portrait of a man who breaks and then grows stronger at the broken places. -
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Remembering 'Some Kind Of Wonderful,' John Hughes' Final Teen Masterpiece
By Matthew Jackson • 131 SharesSome Kind of Wonderful feels like Hughes' attempt at finally letting his teen years go.