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Dissecting Actress Vera Farmiga!

ACTRESS VERA FARMIGA! Damn, how good of an actor is Vera Farmiga? Seriously, who'd ever have thought the sexy blue-eyed stunner would become, if not an outright new generational scream queen of sorts, at least a formidable horror mainstay? I...
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Dissecting Writer/Director Frank Darabont!

WRITER/DIRECTOR FRANK DARABONT! Given his high-ranking prestige pictures, it might be easy to overlook Frank Darabont's love of the macabre. But make no mistake friends, this is a dude who cut his teeth on the horror genre, evolving from a...
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Dissecting Sigourney Weaver!

ACTRESS SIGOURNEY WEAVER! Sigourney Weaver is one of the most unique actresses we’ve had the pleasure of watching. She really is. It starts with her name, carries over to her singular beauty, with her talent transcending through celluloid over a...
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Dissecting Tim Burton!

DIRECTOR TIM BURTON! Tim Burton has had a pretty checkered career hasn't he. After becoming one of the most popular and sought after filmmakers in the late 80s and early 90s, he's had a pretty hit or miss subsequent 20...
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Dissecting Director Abel Ferrara!

DIRECTOR ABEL FERRARA! Buy THE DRILLER KILLER here Abel Ferrara has made some gritty ass movies. To my mind, dude's not only a unheralded writer/director, his career choices and unwillingness to compromise artistically really ought to be commended. It's almost...
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Dissecting Actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead!

Buy DEATH PROOF here MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD! Merry Christmas Eve you drunk sumbitches. No, strike that, make it a Mary Christmas…Mary Elizabeth Winstead, that is! As far as new generational scream-queens are concerned, is there a prettier package to unwrap...
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Don’t f*ck with the Sax! Dissecting Actor John Saxon!

ACTOR JOHN SAXON! Happy horror-days friends! With the season of Yule firmly upon us, we've decided to tie-in this week's Dissection with a Christmas theme. And really, is there a better movie to celebrate this time of year with than...
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Dissecting Director Eli Roth!

DIRECTOR ELI ROTH! After a six-year hiatus from the director's chair, 2013 has marked a big year of return for horror bon-vivant Eli Roth. In addition to producing a number of horror projects (THE LAST EXORCISM II, AFTERSHOCK, THE SACRAMENT,...
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Dissecting Roman Polanski!

WRITER/DIRECTOR ROMAN POLANSKI! There aren't too many international filmmakers – high and lowbrow – as skilled and accomplished as Roman Polanski. There really aren't. The dude has fostered a five-decade career in and out of Hollywood, culling every critical plaudit...
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Dissecting Dario Argento!

WRITER/DIRECTOR DARIO ARGENTO! Despite the effete late phase of his career, Dario Argento is deservedly one of the most heralded horror filmmakers of all time. There's no other way to parse it. The Italian maestro of splatter cinema burst onto...
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