Horror

Nights #12

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Nearly four months after the release of Nights #11, the end of the opening arc finally hits stores with an extra-sized issue with big revelations and changes for multiple characters. The first-half of the issue focuses primarily on how well everything is finally going for our main characters as each has managed to grab and hold onto a little happiness as life begins to move on, happily for once. However, life is about to get a lot more serious with a trip to the local generic, if recognizable, theme park.

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The Substance

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  • Title: The Substance
  • IMDb: link

Part body horror and part treatise on societal pressures of women over the age of 40, The Substance stars Demi Moore as a fading Hollywood celebrity now host of a morning exercise hour about to be replaced by the lecherous producer (Dennis Quaid). Learning of an experimental procedure where she might recapture her youth, Elisabeth (Moore) takes “the Substance” and emerges from the husk of her body as the distinctly different Sue (Margaret Qualley) whose beauty quickly reopens all the doors closed to her older self. However, in order for this miracle to work, Sue and Elisabeth share consciousness, each a week at a time when the other is unconscious with any negative or selfish action by one potentially hurting the other.

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Godzilla Minus One

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  • Title: Godzilla Minus One
  • IMDb: link

Going back to basics, 2023’s Godzilla Minus One returns the story of Godzilla to post World War II Japan with themes of post-war trauma, regret, and anti-war and anti- nuclear messages so prevalent in the original film. Our protagonist is Kōichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki) who encounters Godzilla at the end of WWII while flying as a kamikaze pilot who refused to crash his plane. Two years later, after cobbling together a family of other survivors, and working to remove leftover naval mines, Shikishima encounters Godzilla again. Centered around Shikishima’s guilt and cowardice, the return of Godzilla allows for a chance at redemption by becoming the suicide bomber he failed to be during the war.

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Goosebumps – Stay Out of the Basement

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  • Title: Goosebumps: The Vanishing – Stay Out of the Basement, Part I & Part II
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Disney’s Goosebumps series returns for a Second Season under the subtitle “The Vanishing.” The two-parter to kick off the season introduces to a group of kids who go missing after discovering something ominous in the deserted bowels of Fort Jerome. Thirty years later the nephew of one of the missing kids will take a similar journey. Our main characters here are Cece (Jayden Bartels) and Devin (Sam McCarthy) who are relocated to live with their father Anthony (David Schwimmer) for the summer. The younger brother of one of the missing children, Anthony is better with plants than people, locking himself up with his basement focusing on his scientific research whenever possible.

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Silly Nonsense

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  • Title: Nosferatu
  • IMDb: link

Once a serious horror movie has you giggling at it, it’s almost impossible for it to win you back. A scene at the opening of Nosferatu features a young woman’s bedroom being breached by a creature appearing in shadow (which is captured on the film’s poster). It’s a cool effect, seeing the outline of our vampire only shown in the shadow of the bellowing curtain. For me, it’s the first, and sadly last, creepy moment of the film. And once you can’t take the film that so desperately needs to be taken seriously, Nosferatu devolves quite quickly into silly nonsense.

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