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Blue on Black – A Psychoanalysis of The Babadook (2014)
A friend of mine tells me, “You HAVE to watch The Babadook! It’s been called the horror movie of the year!” So I check out the trailer, it sufficiently creeps me out, I invite a few friends over, and...
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Blue On Black: I Hate The Reflecting Skin (1990)
I enjoy words. Adjectives are especially my favourite. I take so much pleasure in reading a sentence about food and being able to know exactly how it smells, how it tastes. Or a paragraph about the...
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Blue on Black: Pet Sematary (1989)
Speaking of movies that ruined my childhood, the 1989 film adaptation of Stephen King’s 1983 novel Pet Sematary is right up there. The Creed family – man of the house Louis (Dale Midkiff), his wife...
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Blue on Black: I Still Love You, Donnie Darko (2001)
28 days. 6 hours. 42 minutes. 12 seconds. That is when the world will end. When I was in high school, my Dad (Movie Guy Extraordinaire) started what he called “The Film Crew,” and, basically without my...
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Blue on Black: The Fall (2013)
I have a bad habit of not jumping on TV show trains soon enough and not watching a series until it’s over, usually marathoning it on Netflix. I wish I had done this with The Fall because week after...
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Blue on Black: Revival – Stephen King (2014)
I’ve been a bookstore wanderer as long as I can remember. As a kid, I’d peruse the bestseller shelf at the front of the store, and notice there was one name I could always count on seeing there:...
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Blue on Black: Wait Until Dark (1967)
Audrey Hepburn: Breakfast at Tiffany’s. You’d swear that’s the only movie she’d ever done, considering you can’t even walk past a cell phone case kiosk at the mall without seeing that one image of her...
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Blue on Black: Prince of Darkness (1987)
John Carpenter: Halloween, The Thing, They Live. Those are probably the quick three that come to mind when you hear this horror legend’s name. But with 28 directing credits and 41 writing credits on...
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Blue on Black: I Remember Re-Animator (1985)
Remember when deciding to watch a movie was a big deal? A real commitment? Now you can just turn on the TV, skim Netflix, press play, and off you go. If it sucks, stop it, pick something else. But back...
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Blue on Black: Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
Few sequels are able to meet the standards set by an original. Usually “Part 2” sucks. Sometimes though, a sequel is just as thrilling as its predecessor, and in even fewer situations, the sequel is –...
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Blue on Black: The Frighteners (1996)
It was recently brought to my attention that my boyfriend had never seen The Frighteners. How had he missed this? How had I missed him missing this? This needed to be rectified immediately! Not that I...
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Blue on Black: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
I used to live down the street from a video rental store that carried all the films the other rental shops didn’t. There was nothing “too obscure” for them, and they could usually point out what you...
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Blue on Black: The House of the Devil (2009)
About 7 years ago, I gave up on “new” horror. Aside from a handful of rare exceptions – including Drag Me to Hell, The Cabin in the Woods, The Conjuring, and The Babadook – the last decade of horror...
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Blue on Black: From Beyond (1986)
If I could hug Stuart Gordon, I would. I would hug him twice. First for Re-Animator (which I gushed about a few weeks ago), and second for From Beyond. Back in my video rental days, I remember picking...
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Blue on Black: It Follows (2014)
I don’t even remember how It Follows ended up on my radar, but I heard it was something I needed to see, found out it was playing at my favourite theatre, and off I went without even bothering (and in...
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Blue on Black: Night of the Demons 2 (1994)
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: It’s rare that a sequel is any good. Ever. But what’s even more rare is a sequel that can stand alone as well as not be awful. I’ve never seen Night of the...
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Blue on Black: Zombeavers (2014)
It’s no secret that I’m a sucker for the campy horror flick, and I’ll be the first to admit that I like “bad” movies. The cheesier the better. The worse it is, the better it is. My boyfriend surprised...
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Blue on Black: Ghost World (2001)
I had insomnia as a teenager. Not as bad as some, but bad enough. During most of high school I slept a couple times a week at best and for a couple hours at most. Besides the fact that I didn’t know...
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Blue on Black: CineCoup & My Very Biased Opinion
Ok, here’s the thing. I watched Wolf Cop the other day with the intention of telling all y’all all about it, but I got distracted. It happens. A name check turned into a director check, which turned...
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Blue on Black: Toronto, Book Launches & ComiCon – Oh My!
I’m a pretty impulsive person. I always have been. This behaviour has taken me on some wild rides, some incredible, some not so much. Now that I’m a “responsible adult” I’ve toned it down and reigned...
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