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Tourist Trap (1979) – Review

Posted on December 13, 2022September 9, 2023 by Mike Brooks

Going on a road trip with friends may seem like a lot of fun, with America’s open roads unfolding before you like an endless smorgasbord, but that is only until you take that one unfortunate detour and find yourself running from a chainsaw-wielding maniac or being hunted by a group of children through a cornfield,…

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Deadly Games (1989) – Review

Posted on November 4, 2022December 6, 2023 by Mike Brooks

A popular holiday staple for many families is John Hughs’s Christmas comedy Home Alone, where a young boy must defend his home from intruders, but while that film has become a holiday classic and is beloved by many, it was not the first film with that premise because a year earlier writer/director René Manzor brought…

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Friday the 13th – Three Decades of Horror (1980-2009)

Posted on February 5, 2021February 4, 2021 by Mike Brooks

Jason Voorhees may not have been the star of the very first Friday the 13th movie but he has since become the iconic flagship of one of the most popular horror franchises in history and with countless campers meeting their fate at the end of his machete, or whatever other various implements he finds on…

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Friday the 13th (1980) – Review

Posted on November 13, 2020November 11, 2020 by Mike Brooks

“Halloween is making a shit-ton of money, let’s rip it off” and with those immortal words from producer/director Sean S. Cunningham to screenwriter Victor Miller, a horror franchise was born, of course, it was never intended to be a franchise and though Jason and his iconic hockey mask were a few years away – and…

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