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Monday, January 11th, 2010 Horrorthon Posts / Horrorthon Reviews

A whole bunch of stupefied guys who just saw Avatar (2009) ** [UPDATED BELOW] 1) I didn’t like AvatarI didn’t like Avatar. However I am not here to start a fight. I’m not indignant or resentful or marginalized or offended or anything like that. I just didn’t like it…I found it dull. My posting here […]

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Silent Hill

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 Horrorthon Posts / Horrorthon Reviews

(2006) **** If you drew a straight line from The Matrix to Dark City and then extended the line along the same axis, you’d eventually hit Silent Hill, French director Christophe Ganz’ feverishly obsessive cinematic rendering of the acclaimed computer game series of the same name. This odd, grisly, beautiful movie was a box-office disappointment […]

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Near Dark

Sunday, December 13th, 2009 Horrorthon Posts / Horrorthon Reviews

(1987) ** Horrorthon ’09 is “officially” over (and I’ve already done my summation), so I don’t feel compelled to do a particularly circumspect job on this flick. I wasn’t even going to review it, except I’m a little bit irritated because I feel like every time I turn around these days I’m dealing with James […]

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