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Hall adds more psych-horror to resume with ‘Resurrection’ (2022)

At this point, you could do a film festival of Rebecca Hall psychological thrillers. After the likes of “The Gift” and “The Night House,” we

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In ‘Amityville 4’ (1989), ‘The Evil Escapes’ into a daytime soap

The line between TV and film has blurred as we approach the point where the two media will be indistinguishable in production values. In 1989,

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Poirot time-travels to 1985 for ‘Thirteen at Dinner’

The third of Peter Ustinov’s six Hercule Poirot films, “Thirteen at Dinner” (1985), came out the same year as “Back to the Future.” This is

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‘Haunting in Connecticut’ (2009) makes tidy use of cancer parallel

“The Haunting in Connecticut” (2009) is – like the more famous “The Amityville Horror” (1979) — another of those proto-“Conjuring” films that come from an

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Lost in the 1999 bin, ‘Drop Dead Gorgeous’ skewers teen pageants

“Drop Dead Gorgeous” (1999) goes to town making fun of beauty pageants like a sugar-infused kid attacking a pinata. Since I know nothing about pageants

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‘Amityville 3-D’ (1983) could’ve used more dimension in its storytelling

“Amityville 3-D” (1983) hit theaters at the intersection of a couple of trends: one, sequels as ways to cash in on a horror franchise, and

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‘Endless Night’ gets made into sneaky great 1972 film

As a general historical truth, Agatha Christie didn’t see a lot of great film adaptations of her work in her lifetime. What she really missed

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‘The Boogeyman’ an all-too-familiar take on a familiar childhood fear

“The Boogeyman,” adapted from a 1973 short story by Stephen King (collected in 1978’s “Night Shift”), is the third-oldest of his stories to be adapted

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‘Poltergeist’ (1982) the most huggable haunted-house movie ever

“Poltergeist’s” (1982) status among haunted-house films has been equaled many times, but in one way it stands as unique. It was released on June 4,

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‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ goes out in a big (and long) way

I don’t like the trend of increasingly long movies, but I often give good grades to long movies. “John Wick: Chapter 4” is 2 hours

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