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Psycho remains one of my two favorite Hitchcock films, even after I’ve spent all term catching up on many of the ones I haven’t seen. (For the record, my other favorite is Rear Window, which I highly recommend to everyone.) Even were I to indulge in Hitchcock’s entire catalog and meticulously pick apart every film he’s made, Psycho will always remain a favorite for all of the reasons that it is so iconic. This is a film that legitimately makes me excited about the craft of filmmaking every, single time I view it.

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Squandered opportunity is perhaps the best phrase to describe the recent remake of Universal’s classic Wolfman. I hadn’t heard many good things about the film, but I still had the hope that it might surprise me and at least turn out a few characters worth giving a shit about. Unfortunately, the movie doesn’t give its viewers much of anything to give a shit about whatsoever, turning out a bland and unimpressive rehashing that while isn’t bad enough to be shameful, certainly isn’t good enough to be called an homage.

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I am, amazingly, a fan of the original Nightmare on Elm Street series—For a certain value of “fan,” at least. Since I was a kid, I’ve seen most to all of the original films (Most of them tend to blend together), and while I enjoy them, it isn’t because I think they’re high art. I will say this much, though: Freddy Krueger has always terrified me on some primal, human level, and I think that’s why I’ve always liked the Elmstreet films. It’s fun to be scared, even if it’s mostly ridiculous.

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One of the aspects of slasher flicks that I love best is how they have a long-standing tradition of showing that girls can take care of themselves.

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As far as zombie pictures are concerned, it really all started with Night of the Living Dead.

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From the “Where Are They Now?” files: If you’ve been wondering whatever happened to Wes Bentley, the answer appears to be that he’s been turning Edgar Allan Poe stories into truly terrible movies.

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A convoluted mess of a horror film that manages to be both excessively disgusting and not remotely scary.

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If The Fourth Kind succeeded in being anything, it was annoying and unconvincing.

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Dennis Quaid needs to just stop acting right now, for the love of God.

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A bit like Harry Potter meets A Series of Unfortunate Events meets True Blood, but without being nearly as well executed as any of those.

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