Categorie: american writers
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Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities: Pickman’s Model (2022)
Synopsis: Art student Will meets introvert Richard, whose terrifying works of art begin to have a deeply disturbing effect on Will’s sense of reality. Review: Based upon a story by H.P. Lovecraft, this tale tells the story of an art student, Will, who meets a very timid introverted fellow student whose art is controversial and…
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The Bear Season 1
Synopsis: Carmen Berzatto, a brilliant young chef from the fine-dining world is forced to return home to run his local family sandwich shop – the Original Beef of Chicagoland – after a heartbreaking death in his family. A world away from what he’s used to, Carmy must balance the soul-crushing reality of trading in Michelinu…
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Saw Movie Marathon: Spiral, from the Book of Saw (2021) – rewatch
Synopsis: Working in the shadow of his father, an esteemed police veteran (Samuel L. Jackson), brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks (Chris Rock) and his rookie partner (Max Minghella) take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at…
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Creature Feature Collection: Best of Luck
Review: A joke, that’s what starts this story. A joke about a man who has a string of bad luck. A joke told from one friend to another, while pointing a gun to that friend. Life is hard when your life is one misfortunate event after another, when that one friend you’re friends with for…
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Creature Feature Collection: In Bloom
Review: Best one so far in this collection of shorts!Heidi is on her way to Jimmy Lang who will tell her the story of how his father disappeared after an encounter with algae.Heidi is writing for newspapers the stories about climate change and the appearance of blue algae in ponds and such.Jimmy Lang was twelve…
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Creature Feature Collection: It waits in the Woods
Review: Brenda is fifteen when her younger sister Amanda disappears in the woods of Michigan, UNF (aka Ucatanani National Forest)For three years no one finds any trace of her and no one even considers the impossible possibility of Amanda being taken by Opso, a faceless demonlike creature of legends.When Brenda turns eighteen she leaves the…
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Creature Feature Collection: Ankle Snatcher
Review: The stories are true! That monster hiding in the closet? The one underneath your bed? Parents tell these stories to scare their kids. But what if the stories were true? What if something ís hiding there, wanting to get to you?When Marcus has a second date with the woman he thinks could be the…
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Saw Movie Marathon: Jigsaw (2017) – rewatch
Synopsis: Bodies are turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise. As the investigation proceeds, evidence points to one suspect: John Kramer, the man known as Jigsaw, who has been dead for over 10 years. Review: John Kramer is back, sort of! Although Kramer has been dead for over ten years…
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Creature Feature Collection: The Pram
Review: Grief and obsession, two themes that are often the reason for great horror stories. When Willy and Marianne level behind Brooklyn to move to rural Maine in an old farmhouse, they leave behind pain and grief for a never born baby. Their inability to have children is harsh and they want to start a…
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Saw Movie Marathon: Saw VI (2009) – rewatch
Synopsis: Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw’s legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw’s grand scheme is finally understood. Review: Strahm is killed by the new Jigsaw Killer, Hoffman! But Hoffman makes…
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