Horror
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The Curator of Schlock #53: King Kong
The Curator of Schlock #53 by Jeff Shuster King Kong (Ape of the Week: King Kong) Don’t get too excited. This isn’t the 1933 King Kong, but the 1976 remake. Oh yes. Dino De Laurentis got his mitts on King Kong way before Peter Jackson. For some reason, I had been blissfully ignorant of this motion picture growing… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #45: Zombie
The Curator of Schlock #45 by Jeff Shuster Don’t go to Zombie Island! I guess it was only a matter of time before I got around to reviewing another zombie movie. What? Nightmare City wasn’t enough for you? Okay. How about a trip to an island of zombies from horror maestro Lucio Fulci? No? Tough. This isn’t… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #44: The Funhouse
The Curator of Schlock #44 by Jeff Shuster The Funhouse (or, Don’t Go to the Carnival, Kids) 1981’s The Funhouse from director Tobe Hooper (of Texas Chainsaw Massacre fame) has one of the most terrifying opening credit sequences I’ve ever seen in a movie. That’s because it’s clip after clip of audio-animatronic dolls! I don’t like puppets… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #43: Friday the 13th, Part VII: The New Blood
The Curator of Schlock #43 by Jeff Shuster Friday the 13th, Part VII: The New Blood–Don’t go to Crystal Lake! I know there are some of you out there who think there’s no rhyme or reason to what I decide to curate on any particular week. For instance, you might think that I realized at the last… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #16: Cannibal Apocalypse
The Curator of Schlock #16 by Jeffrey Shuster Cannibal Apocalypse, AKA Invasion of the Flesh Hunters I tried to think of a movie to review for Thanksgiving. I know many of you are looking forward to munching down on succulent turkey in a few days, but have ever been tempted to sink you teeth into something… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #15: Chernobyl Diaries
The Curator of Schlock #15 by Jeffrey Shuster Chernobyl Diaries: Free Beef Jerky Included With Tour! I’m a sucker for cheap DVDs. Amazon was having a blowout sale the other week of $5 dollar DVDs. I purchased Falling Down, Up In Smoke, and Flashdance. And then I bought a $4 dollar DVD, Chernobyl Diaries. I remember… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #11: The House by the Cemetery
The Curator of Schlock #11 by Jeffrey Shuster Freud + Frankenstein= Freudstein (The House by the Cemetery) 1981’s The House by the Cemetery from Italian horror maestro Lucio Fulci starts out with a couple of teenagers getting brutally murdered in (you guessed it) a house by the cemetery. How are they murdered? Well, the one… Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #9: Geeks, Ghouls, and Gore
Like a Geek God #9 by Mark Pursell Geeks, Ghouls, and Gore Fear—being brought face to face with your own mortality and the possibility that you will be somehow damaged or erased in mind, spirit, and/or body—has always been replicated in our cultural objects, from scary stories told ‘round a bonfire in the prehistoric… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #1: Nightmare City
The Curator of Schlock #1 by Jeffrey Shuster Nightmare City Why should you pop Umberto Lenzi’s Nightmare City into you’re DVD player? It’s called Nightmare City. What makes the city a nightmare city? Zombies. Lots and lots of zombies. Apparently, somewhere in Europe there was a radioactive spill at a nuclear plant. The movie doesn’t specify if it’s… Continue reading
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