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Favorite Movies: Horror: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Silence of the Lambs, Jaws, Black read more Christmas (1974), Friday the 13th (1980), Return of the Living Dead, Halloween (1978), Last House on the Left (1973), way too many to list (in the horror genre alone, not to mention out of genre film) Non-Horror: Stand By Me, Lonely Are the Brave, Lost in Translation, Rushmore, Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, Sling Blade, The Usual Suspects, Reservoir Dogs, Caddyshack, Stripes, Ghostbusters, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Harold and Maude, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, The Big Lebowski, and on and on and on and mothafu*kin on

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The First Purge (Movie Review)

PLOT: In Staten Island, New York, the very first experimental purge is conducted by the New Founding Fathers of America (NFFA). REVIEW: Just when writer/director and franchise creator James DeMonaco found the sweet-spot of highly entertaining topical salience two years...

The Test of Time: Phantasm II (1988)

We all have certain movies we love. Movies we respect without question because of either tradition, childhood love, or because they’ve always been classics. However, as time keeps ticking, do those classics still hold up? Do they remain must see?...

Escape Plan 2: Hades (Movie Review)

PLOT: Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) and his crack-team of prison-breakers are tasked with rescuing key ally Shu Ren (Xiaoming Huang) from Hades, an amorphous high-tech prison in Shanghai. REVIEW: Zero for two I am in the business of predicting quality...

The F*cking Black Sheep: It Follows (2015)

THE BLACK SHEEP is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATH. We’re hoping this column will...

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Movie Review)

PLOT: When a dormant volcano on Isla Nublar grows angrily active, Owen and Claire are put to the test in their attempt to rescue the dinosaurs from the natural disaster. REVIEW: After demonstrating a deft hand at properly weighing emotional...

Incident in a Ghostland (Movie Review)

PLOT: Following an unimaginably tragic home invasion, horror writer Beth goes to great lengths to deal with her PTSD when her sister Vera calls her back to the scene of the crime. REVIEW: A decade has passed since French grue-hound...

The F*cking Black Sheep: Poltergeist III (1988)

THE BLACK SHEEP is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATH. We’re hoping this column will...
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Top 10 Volcano Movies!

Be real, what kind of natural disaster are you most fearful of? Coming from California, you’d think mine would be earthquakes. Uh uh. Twisters. Tornadoes. Dust Devils. Violently spinning spires of wind and debris…that I want no part of. Ever....

The Test of Time: Don’t Look Now (1973)

We all have certain movies we love. Movies we respect without question because of either tradition, childhood love, or because they’ve always been classics. However, as time keeps ticking, do those classics still hold up? Do they remain must see?...
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Movie Reviews

Hereditary (Movie Review)

PLOT: After the death of her mother, Annie (Toni Collette) unearths the fetid rot found at the root of her family tree. REVIEW: HEREDITARY is the scariest movie I’ve reviewed in nine years writing for Arrow in the Head. Indeed,...
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