(Lionsgate | Dimension | DEG) It’s the weekend before Halloween, which means this is the last weekend of the year you can binge watch horror movies and not feel weird about it. So we’ve gone through the impressive list of great horror movies on Netflix’s streaming services and pulled out a few recommendations based purely on personal preference.
Other Blu-ray titles to be released this week include: R.I.P.D, starring Ryan Reynolds; Springsteen & I; Cars 3D, The Ultimate Collector’s Edition; The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; Deadwood, the complete series for $125; and Glass, The Perfect American, a documentary on composer Philip Glass.
Chances are that any movie that endures contains a moment or more — a line, a look — that people talk about, imitate, and repeat.
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Grade • B DVD • PBS’ “American Experience†does a good job of recalling the “War of the Worlds†radio broadcast that aired 75 years ago, which surely ranks as one of the strangest media events in our history. It’s almost unfathomable that anyone, let alone thousands of people, could have listened to Orson Welles’ radio play adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic sci-fi novel and actually believed …
Some of the best horror movies of all time have been adapted from equally successful horror stories. “The Exorcistâ€, nominated for 10 Academy Awards, was adapted from the William Peter Blatty novel of the same name
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Highly Recommended First released in Great Britain as Expos and in the United States as Trauma , the now-titled House on Straw Hill (1976) is an extremely minor, muddled erotic thriller with slight horror movie elements, and notable only as the lone British film on the original list of “Video Nasties” compiled by the Department of Public Prosecution. Severin Films’ new Blu-ray presents it …
Predicted precipitation paired with cold temperatures has caused organizers to call off tonight’s Movies in the Park event.