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Written by Linda November 30, 2008
When VCRs first came out, An American Werewolf in London was one of the first videos where my brother and I discovered the joys of rewinding-your-favorite-scene abuse ("A naked America...
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Written by Linda November 30, 2008
The night I rented American Psycho with a friend, we had just been talking about the last time a movie gave us nightmares. For me it had been the movie...
movie*pie Reviews » On Video
Written by Linda November 30, 2008
For me, there is a thin line between plot-forwarding violence, and violence for violence's sake. Ab-Normal Beauty treads that thin line, and several times crossed it for me. But as...
movie*pie Reviews » On Video
Written by Linda November 30, 2008
Let's call this one The Monkey's Revenge. 28 Days Later opens with a rather deliciously ironic scenario of a bunch of well-meaning activists breaking into an experimental lab in Cambridge...
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Written by Linda November 23, 2008
I knew this was a Swedish vampire movie, but I did not expect a movie so quiet, so cold, and so lonely.
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Written by Linda October 13, 2008
When a horror movie is good, you should be raising your hand to be excused from the building. The Descent is one such movie, and not only is it good,...
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Written by Linda October 13, 2008
You just want Stuntman Mike to save all of our valuable time by simply blowing that shack sky high.
movie*pie Reviews » On Video
Written by Linda October 13, 2008
The best thing that this straight-to-video remake of Day of the Dead has going for it is the DVD packaging. The cardboard sleeve has a fabulous old-school holographic image that...
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Written by Linda October 11, 2008
As my friend and I left the advance screening of Cloverfield, JJ Abrams' latest production (note: NOT direction), we suddenly found ourselves paced on the sidewalk by a wide-eyed fanboy....
movie*pie Reviews » On Video
Written by Linda October 11, 2008
The plot of the horror film 1408 is quite simple: Paranormal writer John Cusack hears about haunted room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Hotel manager Samuel Jackson says, "It's an...
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