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Halloween Top 5: The Evil Dead

Sam Raimi’s debut feature is an absolute game changer. Not since Romero’s Night of the Living Dead has there been a movie that so totally redefined what a genre was capable of. Not bad for a $300,000 movie shot in Nowhere, Tennessee

From the BOTTOM SHELF: Murder Party

What if you found an elaborate invitation to a Halloween party? What if you decided to go? What if, once you got there, everyone tried to kill you? This is the premise of MURDER PARTY, the first feature by Jeremy Saulnier. And it’s an interesting one. It just so happens that every other part of the film is an exercise in how to fail at filmmaking

INSTANT GREATIFICATION: Kolchak – The Night Stalker

With Netflix, Amazon VOD, Hulu and YouTube making nice names for themselves on the internet, there’s countless hours of video content to wade through. We’re here to point you to the good stuff. Prepare to be instantly greatified

IDOLATRY: The Third Man

There are some films that need to be had. This column will focus on those select few. We celebrate the essential films and the brilliant DVD studios for giving them the proper treatment. These are the gold standard. They deserve our worship. If there were a God, he would be punishing you for idolatry

Let Fabio Frizzi Choose Your “Grindcore” Band Name here on TRC

Mr. Frizzi is the composer of the score for Lucio Fulci’s supernatural/zombie apocalypse classic THE BEYOND. Nowadays, he is assisting the rise of the Grindcore genre of music by allowing his THE BEYOND score titles to be optioned as band names

Kind of a Big Deal: 30% Off Blu

Best Buy is running a 30% off sale on ALL of their catalog Blu-Ray titles (excluding Ice Age 3, Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure, Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Wrong Turn, Twilight, Last House on the Left, Friday the 13th 2009, The Haunting In Connecticut and The Uninvited — But who wants those anyway?)

REVIEW: The Brothers Bloom

The Brothers Bloom may be the most uplifting movie about the art of the con ever made. As the brothers figure out all the way back at the prologue, a con works best when all parties involved get exactly what they want

The Long Good Friday 004

The Long Good Friday is a continuing weekly column that tries to thematically or tangentially link together three varying films that would make one hell of an evening at the home theater. Most of these flicks are readily available from Netflix, Blockbuster or Amazon, and some are even available on demand. This is our attempt at a gateway drug to irresponsible movie-watching

The Changeling

By Tom Nix

The Changeling is legitimately spooky ghost story. It is not a movie where Angelina Jolie practices recognizing her own children. For those of you looking for an article about Angelina Jolie – Why

REVIEW: Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are is a lot like the Dark Side Cave in The Empire Strikes Back. You will get out of it only what you bring in with you