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An American Werewolf in London

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  • Title: An American Werewolf in London
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There are early examples of films that mixed comedy and horror, but those were more slapstick in style such as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Shelved for more than a decade as investors were leary on the project that seemed too scary for a comedy and too silly for a horror flick, the success of 1981’s An American Werewolf in London would prove doubters wrong and open up a new subgenre for films such as Evil Dead 2 and Shaun of the Dead mixing comedic elements with more serious horror elements and gore.

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John Candy: I Like Me

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  • Title: John Candy: I Like Me
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Colin Hanks‘ documentary examines the life of John Candy through friends and family while featuring a number of clips from TV and movie performances, interviews (both archival and new), and home videos of Candy with his family. The film works as a celebration of Candy’s life and work, rather than a more critical delve into the man, while also examining into demons he struggled with before dying of a heart attack at the age of 43.

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Meridian

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  • Title: Meridian
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One of several B-movies Sherilyn Fenn made during during the late 1980s, Meridian was released originally on home video in 1990 (the first of many releases under a variety of titles over the years). Part sexploitation thriller and part fantasy horror, the script adapts ideas from the classic Beauty and the Beast fairy tale, while also weaving in ghosts along with its curse. While problematic, for a number or reasons including our lead falling in love with her rapist, the film has impressive production values for a B-movie with the castle, and the various statues and gargoyles across its lawn, making for a visually interesting backdrop to the proceedings.

Fenn stars as Italian-American Catherine Bomarzini who returns to her family’s castle for the first time in years, also reuniting with her more adventurous college friend Gina (Charlie Spradling) working nearby as an art restorer. Talked into seeing a traveling carnival just outside the castle grounds by Gina, who also invites the performers to dine with them in the castle over Cathehrine’s reservations, the night ends with the twin brothers (who hide the fact that there are two of them) drugging and each raping one of the women.

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The Bone Collector

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  • Title: The Bone Collector
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Feeling every bit the 90s movie it is, The Bone Collector throws Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie together in a crime thriller based on Jeffery Deaver’s novel. Washington stars as brilliant, but suicidal, quadriplegic homicide detective Lincoln Rhyme who sees wasted potential in Officer Amelia Donaghy (Jolie) who takes the kind of initiative he, but not her superiors, appreciate in preserving a crime scene. Not initially pleased with her reassignment, Amelia works as Rhyme’s legs in the field helping to track down a serial killer leaving obscure clues and removing bones from his victims.

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Play Dirty

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  • Title: Play Dirty
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A less successful adaptation of the Parker novels than that of Jason Statham (there’s a sentence you don’t hear often), Mark Wahlberg stars in what is easily the worst, and most bland, Shane Black movie ever made. After a heist gone wrong, Parker (Wahlberg) works with the duplicitous Zen (Rosa Salazar) on an even larger heist which will pit him against his old enemy Lozini (Tony Shalhoub) and the Outfit.

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