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It’s finally here! Eight years in the making! You’re invited to join Rich and Jeff for the 100th meeting of the Classic Horrors Club! There’s only one movie star and one movie big enough for the podcast: King Kong (1933.) It’s an episode as big as Kong, and a celebration you don’t want to miss…
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Despite it appearing on almost every list of zombie movies, I don’t consider 28 Days Later (2002) to be one of them. Sure, there are ferocious, zombie-like creatures, but they aren’t raised from the dead. They’ve been transformed by an equally ferocious virus. It’s about humankind’s reaction to the virus itself and whatever conditions it…
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The 27th Day (1957) is a thinking man’s alien invasion movie, full of almost more big philosophical ideas than its 75-minute running time can hold. However, that’s the perfect running time to not notice what could be some pretty big flaws. Even now I must think about it carefully before I write about its plot points. There’s…
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When you watch one of the original slashers now, it’s hard to remember if it’s full of tropes that have accumulated over nearly 50 years, or it they were already tropes when the films were originally made. For example, in Friday the 13th Part 2, when Ginny’s (Amy Steel) car is “sick” and Paul (John…
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Unmasked Part 25 (1988) opens as a typical 80s slasher film might and, based on the special effects, a pretty good one. A hockey-masked killer executes (pun intended) five kills: The movie then almost comes to a complete halt, just as the killer does when he’s about to stab a blind woman. She mistakes him for…
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The only Bollywood movie I’ve seen is a three-hour-and-44-minute-long historical drama/musical about the game of cricket that came on two videotapes. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001) was wonderful! Now, I’ve seen a second. You might call 24 (2016) “the Back to the Future of India.” It’s not as perfect as that, but It’s a funny, sweet, exciting, time…
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The Number 23 (2007) is the dark underbelly of yesterday’s movie, 2:22. That one featured a character with an obsession for a specific time (2:22) and ended with a profound revelation. This one features a character with an obsession for a specific number (23) and ends with a grim resolution. 2:22 nourishes the soul. The Number 23 destroys it. However, both…
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2:22 (2017) is in a category of film I used to love and for which I seem to still have a soft spot. It’s all about destiny or fate and cosmic circumstances that bring two people together in ways they don’t understand until the emotional climax. This is the type of movie that won’t crack a…
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21 Days (2014) is a found footage movie about a supposedly haunted house that doesn’t cover any new ground seven years after Paranormal Activity and near the end of its sequels that were still being made. It’s competent enough and has some scares, but the only thing unique about it is a trio of despicable filmmakers that you…
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What I always remember about 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) is the little boy, Pepe, played by Bart Bradley. He’s a shrewd, business-minded child always looking for an angle. He’s also annoying. He opens a canister washed up on the beach of an Italian fishing village after a rocket ship returns from a mission…
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