Horror

The Thing from Another World

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  • Title: The Thing from Another World
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Throwback Thursday takes us back t0 1951 and the North Pole where a group of soldiers and scientists will unearth an alien from another world from beneath the ice that almost destroys them. Making several changes to the novella which spawned it, the film is your basic fight for survival at the end of the world that even pits some of the humans against each other involving the scientists, oblivious to the dangers involved, who want to capture and keep the creature alive, and the soldiers who know it must be destroyed.

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American Psycho II: All American Girl

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  • Title: American Psycho II: All American Girl
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Originally a completely separate throwaway slasher flick, it’s unclear whether anyone involved in this project, including director Morgan J. Freeman or screenwriters Alex Sanger and Karen Craig, ever watched American Psycho or read the book it was adapted from. Mila Kunis, who didn’t know Lions Gate planned to connect this story to American Psycho (let alone call it a sequel), would publicly apologize for the film and beg others to let the franchise die.

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Mayhem

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  • Title: Mayhem
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Zombie-adjacent, 2017’s Mayhem is a balls-to-the-wall action-horror that offers the opportunity for mass carnage over 86 minutes (while also taking a few pointed jabs at corporate culture). Steven Yeun stars as mid-level exec Derek Cho and Samara Weaving as desperate client Melanie Cross whom he rebuffs. Shortly after that interaction, Derek’s bosses throw him to the wolves to protect their own asses. However, before either can be escorted out of the building, the offices are locked down for a viral outbreak of “Red Eye.”

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Azrael

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  • Title: Azrael
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While I understand the idea behind 2024’s Azrael, in which Samara Weaving stars as a young woman on the run from a cult who believe speech is a sin and plan to sacrifice her to wandering burnt humanoids who they worship, the film never finds a way to transcend the basic concept in a way to make it work for an entire film. Without speech or narration, director E.L. Katz limits himself on how to frame the story relying mostly on Weaving running through the woods in fear of her life.

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