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19 of the Best Movies With the Worst ‘Uncanny Valley’ Effects
A movie doesn’t have to be a special effects extravaganza to be worth watching, but it seems like we’re increasingly uninterested in going to the theatre to see one if they’re not. And if we’re going to pay good money, we want to those special effects to look special. The move away from practical effects…
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18 Halloween Thrillers That Are Scary but Not Gory
I give director James Wan an awful lot of credit. After making a boatload of money creating the Saw franchise (a series of movies that popularised the term “torture porn”), he turned around and reinvented the spooky haunted house genre in Insidious and The Conjuring. Tastes in thrillers vary wildly, but it’s hard to argue…
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12 COVID-Era Box Office Flops That Deserve Another Chance
Though slightly below projections, No Time to Die’s opening weekend box office grosses in the US — coming hot on the heels of Venom: Let There Be Carnage’s positively pre-pandemic $123-million weekend — suggest people are indeed getting more comfortable with heading back to movie theatres (whether that’s a good idea or not probably depends…
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10 Documentaries You Should Watch That Are Scarier Than Horror Movies
Sure, movie ghosts and masked-slashers are scary, but if you want real, uncut horror you have to go to the source: Real life. These 10 documentaries would be scary enough as fiction, but the fact that they’re real is terrifying.