Shelby Oaks is the debut film from Chris Stuckmann (as writer/director). Yes, the Chris Stuckmann of YouTube movie reviewer fame. He has been talking about his dream of making a movie on his channel for years, and all I can say is congratulations, Chris. This is a hell of a first outing, and I look […]
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The Black Phone 2 just entered theaters this past weekend. The Black Phone short story does not have a sequel. This concerned me. I find generally that movies based on books do not need to be expanded upon. *cough, Jurassic Park.* The source material is all you need. So I headed to The Black Phone
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Holy crap did The Conjuring Last Rites make a boatload of money. Opening weekend, it did an astonishing $84 million at the box office, giving it the #3 place among horror movies. (If you’re curious, numbers 1 and 2 are IT and IT: Chapter 2. Globally it surpassed those numbers) I saw it opening weekend
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The Nun 2 is the last Conjuring movie until September. You know the drill. If you haven’t seen it already, check out The Nun 2 here. Welcome to France! It’s time to clean up all the leftovers after church. As I kid, I was endlessly disappointed that this was less of a snack and more
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This movie did nothing for me. I wasn’t scared; I wasn’t interested. I never gave one single crap. I don’t know if this is a particularly uninteresting outing for the franchise, Rotten Tomatoes rated it as 56%, but I couldn’t get into it. My voice notes are always a mess of snark and judgement, but
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The Nun was the Conjuring’s big, bad, overarching evil demon. As an audience, we’ve been seeing her throughout the franchise. She’s been built up as the most evil, hardest to defeat of all the terrors in the Warren’s long history of paranormal investigation. The Nun is the one who threatened Ed’s life. By the time
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This was the real surprise outing in this franchise. Annabelle was lackluster. There rarely was a moment of real tension and the story didn’t really grab the audience. But Annabelle Creation is a whole different story. From the cinematography to the acting, to the story, everything in this movie just works together perfectly to create
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Despite lackluster reviews for Annabelle, the Conjuring franchise continued with The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Haunting. Notably, this one does not start with a recap of Annabelle’s adventures in nursing, but with a different Warren case, Amityville. This doesn’t do them any favors in the credibility department since Amityville has been scrutinized and debunked more
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The Conjuring released in 2013. It tells the story of the Perron Family and their experience with inhuman spirits inhabiting their new home. It would be the movie that launched a, so far, 10 movie universe. Horror movies are no stranger to excessive sequels. While Friday the 13th is a masterpiece of tension and subverted
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