Posts Tagged ‘Paranormal Activity’
Film Review – The Visit
Hey, here’s a twist for you: M. Night Shyamalan is interesting again! Okay, not especially, but he’s sure trying. Between this and his foray into television, Wayward Pines, it seems Shyamalan fell asleep at his laptop in a ZzzQuil haze with The X-Files on in…
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Film Review – Insidious: Chapter 2
Insidious: Chapter 2 comes off of an original film that, on one hand, had one of the strongest opening halves of a horror film in recent memory, but which also lost a fair amount of steam and its audience’s enthusiasm as it struggled to the…
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Film Review – Paranormal Activity 4
Another year, another Paranormal Activity film. At this point, if you aren’t sure what to expect walking into this, then you must have been living under a rock for the last few years. With this latest entry in the series, the aptly titled Paranormal Activity…
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Film Review – [REC] 3: Genesis
When The Blair Witch Project was released in 1999 to huge audiences and huger pupils, it opened the floodgates for a slew of low-budget horror movies, a good deal of them sharing/aping the “found footage” aesthetic. While a few of these films managed to transcend…
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Pulling Focus – Found Footage Films and Marketing
Found footage horror films are a genuinely modern phenomenon. We can attempt to trace roots to Cannibal Holocaust in 1980, tie origins to the aesthetic and stylistic techniques in the even older cinéma vérité genre, or, if we really want to go back, we can…
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Poll – Favorite Horror Film of the 2000s
As part of our horror celebration for the month of October, we will be running a series of polls to try to nail down the best horror films from specific periods of time. This time we are tackling the best horror film of the 2000s.…
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Top 5 – Ghost Stories
Another MacGuffin Film Podcast Top 5’s segment. This time Brandi and John share their top 5 ghost stories.
READ MORETop 5 – Good/Great Films We Will Never Watch Again
Another MacGuffin Film Podcast Top 5′s segment. This time around Brandi and Allen share their top 5 good/great films they never want to watch again.
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