Horror

Rosario

  • Title: Rosario
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Taking place mostly inside the walls of a single New York apartment during a storm, Emeraude Toubia stars as successful New York stockbroker Rosario “Rosie” Fuentes who returns to grandmother’s (Constanza Gutierrez) apartment for the first time in years after learning of her death. In the middle of a winter storm, alone in the filthy apartment with the death body, Rosie starts having odd experiences resulting in her exploring the apartment and finding a locked room full of skulls, blood, a prayer/spell book, and a sacrificial Palo Mayombe cauldron which ties back to the film’s opening scene showing us Rosie’s last encounter with her grandmother on her first communion where she first got a glimpse of this hidden world.

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Sinners Sins So Well

  • Title: Sinners
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Featuring Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as dangerous twins who return home to the Mississippi Delta with ill-gotten gains to set up their own juke joint, writer/director Ryan Coogler‘s Sinners is one part period drama which examine the lives of the tightknit community and one part supernatural thriller as something evil is drawn in by the music of the twins’ cousin Sammie (Miles Caton) all taking place during a single day and night.

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Final Destination

  • Title: Final Destination
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Flashback Friday takes us back 25 years to Final Destination. Filled with young stars of the moment, some of whose careers have turned out better than others, but not great dialogue nor acting, the 2000 horror film is nevertheless notable for its premise. At a time where slashers and monsters still owned the horror market, Final Destination offered something new with victims who escaped death, but still being marked for it, are attacked through elaborate sequences of inanimate objects moving themselves into a position to lead to to a grizzly end.

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Red Sonja vs. The Army of Darkness #1

Mashing up two franchises, as Dynamite Entertainment is want to do, we get Red Sonja vs. The Army of Darkness #1 which opens in the present with a despondent Ash Williams thinking back on his glory days (as seen in Army of Darkness). This leads to a little researching about the time period he left and an attack by a She-Devil with a Sword which he chooses to try and prevent by pulling out a very different book and traveling back to what he thinks will be the world he left.

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Scream 4

  • Title: Scream 4
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Scream Sunday takes us back to the world of Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) in the worst movie (at least so far) of the 30 year-old franchise. The characters feel far too long-in-the tooth at this point as the film goes extra-hard with Stab parody sequel cameos (featuring the likes of Anna Paquin, Kristen Bell, Shenae Grimes, and Lucy Hale) and new Ghostface killings (this time with the killer filming their own murders) while limping to an unsatisfying twist ending that ties in social media feeding narcissism and fame-seeking without delivering a satisfying conclusion.

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