Categorie: american writers
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Creature Feature Collection: Big Bad
Review: I have to be completely honest, this was not my favourite story from the six Amazon originals. The first half of the story was slow and just couldn’t get my attention. It’s a wonder I made it to half the story (of it would have been a book of 200 or 300 pages I’d…
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Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities: Dreams in the Witch House (2022)
Synopsis: Years after his twin sister’s death, a researcher ventures Into a dark, mysterious realm with the aid of a special drug, determined to bring her back. Review: Definitely not the best episode (not the worst either) in this show! It started out great but couldn’t hold the tension and my attention enough… When, at…
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Silent Hill Movie Marathon: Silent Hill Revelation (2012) – rewatch
Synopsis: Sharon Da Silva believes that she is on the run with her adoptive father because he killed a man in self-defense when she was young. Now on the eve of her 18th birthday, living under the alias of Heather Mason, plagued by horrific nightmares and the disappearance of her father, Sharon discovers he has…
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Movie Marathon: Re-Animator (1985) – rewatch
Synopsis: A medical student returns from Austria after working in regenerative experiments with a well known scientist who died under mysterious circumstances. He enrolls at Miskatonic University where he begs to differ with his professor on issues of the time of death, and eventually enlists his roommate to help him continue experiments on re-animating the…
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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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