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“‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning’ is awesome.”

There have been eight movies in the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” series, but only two are worth watching if you want to feel real horror. One is the original film, “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” which was released by director/co-writer Tobe Hooper in 1974 and is rightly regarded as a classic. Like “The Blair Witch Project” a quarter-century later, it did not allow its low budget to get in the way...

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Review for “The Deaths of Ian Stone”

A movie like “The Deaths of Ian Stone” makes you lament the fickle nature of show business. I know only two things about director Dario Piana and writer Brendan Hood: Together they made one of the most unique science fiction thrillers I’ve ever seen, and they have not done much other filmmaking work since. I don’t know anything about why their cinema resumes have dried up, but I can say that I...

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Review for “Darkness Falls”

It is a shame that movie remakes usually cover films that were already perfect the first time. The ones that truly deserve a second shot are those based on interesting concepts but which, for one reason or another, collapsed upon execution. "Darkness Falls," a 2003 horror film directed by Jonathan Liebesman, is Exhibit A for this argument. At first glance the premise may seem too silly: A killer...

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