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Halloween III: Season of the Witch follows Dr. Challis (Tom Atkins) and Ellie Grimbridge (Stacey Nelkin), who is trying to find out why her father---who was brought into Challis’ hospital at the beginning of the film---was murdered by a man who promptly went out to his car and lit himself on fire (causing one of …
Love him or loathe him, Rob Zombie is one of the leading forces in modern horror cinema. A filmmaker whose name alone brings about either applause or ridicule, much to the pleasure (or pain) of his audience over the past 15 years since his directorial debut, House of 1000 Corpses. You know you're watching "a …
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We chase riddles hoping to find some sense of answers about the mundane and the spectacular. Whether it’s through our entertainment, education or life experiences, there’s an underlying hope that somehow we can understand the mysteries that have alluded us for centuries. Do we ponder the unknown or embrace enigmas? Audiences in 1968 had such …
On October 8th, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark report to relatively substantial media coverage---a report that has everything to do with science and the future, rather than our latest political disaster. This coverage lasted a day, if that, before we collectively sighed our despair and moved on. The report itself …
Talk to anyone---and I mean anyone---and they've probably seen John Carpenter's Halloween. The movie has been ubiquitously praised since its initial release in 1978 and has been a key influence on countless other films such as Friday the 13th and, most recently, It Follows. Halloween showed everyone that you didn't need crazy special effects, a huge …
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"There's guns across the river aimin' at ya Lawman on your trail, he'd like to catch ya Bounty hunters too, they'd like to get ya Billy they don't like you to be so free." ---Bob Dylan, "Billy 1" from Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid As of late, I have been on a Western Odyssey. …
“On-Screen, Off-Screen” is our monthly film series created to showcase a more personal retrospective about some of our favourite filmmakers. Each month, one 25YL staffer will choose one of their own favourite filmmakers---be it a director or performer or writer or composer or production designer, etc---and will analyse what it is about their on-screen work …
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"Buried Treasures" is a bi-weekly film series highlighting beloved films that have been either underseen or underappreciated. Every other week, one 25YL columnist will choose a film they think is deserving of additional praise and shine a spotlight on that film. The film chosen may be one that few have heard of, or maybe it …
"Dear Mr. Core, three days ago my son Bailey was taken by wolves. This happened twice already here. No one in the village will hunt them, and I am alone here now. I have read your book. I know you have done this before. In my heart…I know that you are able to do it …
The Shape/Michael Myers is the psychotic subject of John Carpenter and Debra Hill’s infamous 1978 babysitter-come-heroine tale, Halloween. The film is iconic in nearly every facet of cinematic culture, from its claustrophobic camera work that induces anxiety and the feeling of being stalked for the audience, to the universally known score (that only took John Carpenter …