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Amityville Horrible
The only fact about any of the Amityville Horror films is that the DeFeo family was murdered in their sleep inside the house on 112 Ocean Avenue. The real horror is what the surviving relatives must...
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Friday the 13th Gets Lucky
“What a piece of shit! No one’s gonna see this crap!” — Actress Betsy Palmer aka Pamela Vorhees The late, esteemed critic, Roger Ebert, coined the phrase “Dead Teenager Movie” and I have stated...
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The Road to Death House Part 1
Let’s build on Eli Roth’s prescient observation. I have written quite a bit on cynicism in filmmaking. If you are just coming to my series, stop here. Go back and read my other pieces. Then you can...
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Spoon Fed Horror
Expect more from your entertainment. Whether film, literature, music, even video gaming…refuse to be dumbed down. As I move over the half way point in post production for “Death House” I’ve had time to...
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Crypt TV To Award A Filmmaker With The Emerging Artist Award At Comicpalooze
At this year’s Houston’s Comicpalooza convention CryptTV will be present their Emerging Artist Award for Creative Excellence in Filmmaking. The award, the first of its kind from CryptTV, will be...
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Road to Death House Part 2
“Death House” First Day Group Photo I’ve attended a lot of Hollywood meetings. Creative. Business. Social. In every one of these, ideas and projects get thrown around. People get excited. Plans are...
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Accidents Happen In This Exclusive Clip From Clown – Out On Blu-ray And DVD...
From director Jon Watts and producer Eli Roth, comes a twisted tale of terror, titled Clown. The film stars Andy Powers as Kent, a loving father desperate to make his son happy. When a clown...
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Independence Day: A Landmark Disaster
Cynema is not a film review series. There are plenty of those online. Once in awhile a film comes along that defines everything about my Cynema concept. The latest is Roland Emerich’s two decades...
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Crypt TV Teaming Up With Chiller TV For New Series Slice Of Summer
Crypt TV, co-founded by genre genius Eli Roth and Jack Davis, will be teaming up with Chiller TV for Slice of Summer, a series of original short horror films. The series will mark Crypt TV’s first...
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The Road to Death House Pt. 3
“Please don’t let this be full of jump scares like The Conjuring movies.” “I hope this is smart and actually has a story.” “I don’t expect much from this. It’ll likely suck. Just accept it.” “Stupid...
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Don’t Breathe Pranked Viewers At A Screening Watch It U Snapchat – Here’s How
‘Don’t Breathe‘, from director Fede Alverez (Evil Dead) and producer Sam Raimi, has fans eagerly awaiting its August 26th premiere in theaters. Some viewers got quite a scare when they were invited...
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Crypt TV Launches New Site Crypt Haunt To Connect You With The Best Halloween...
It’s that amazing time of year, Halloween season. One of the best parts of Halloween are creeping down the scary halls of haunts waiting for something to jump out at you or for someone to grab you....
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Road to Death House Part 4: Open Letter
Friday. November 11th. Death House is officially done. Like the 2016 election, it will soon be in the hands of the people to make their decision. Hear my personal views on this film at 22:30 here on...
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Suspension of Disbelief in Film Dysmorphia
Sit through this annoying video up until the 5:00 mark. The fan boy “host” in the above video talks in attention deficit tweets with jump cut “hip” editing to spill out his unabashed respect and love...
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Critical Thinking
Actress and well known horror star, Caroline Williams tweeted an article this morning that dovetailed with several previous Cynema posts. Director Brett Ratner called out the dangers of aggregate film...
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Who Ya Gonna Call Out?
Cynema is not a film review series. Ghostbusters 2016 got a lot of shit before it was released. This article is a companion piece to my previous “Critical Thinking” essay. Ghostbusters 2016 is not...
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Attack of the Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes ruined the summer 2017 boxoffice. The New York Times published this article on film review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes (read here). The site has been around almost twenty years. I...
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We Need To Talk About Michael
News of Jamie Lee Curtis’s return to the long-running Halloween franchise almost broke the Internet a few weeks ago. Some online posts were akin to The Beatles US arrival or the announcement of The...
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The Assassination of Tara Reid
“How many more years are [the media] going to pick on me? There’re other new young bad girls. Move on to someone else.” – Tara Reid Putting it on the table…why Tara Reid? “But I keep working. I keep...
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Short Horror Film ‘Agatha’ Racks Up 800K Views in Four Days – Watch It Here
The short horror film Agatha is taking the genre by storm. Fresh off its festival tour, the film has now premiered on Crypt TV and received nearly 800k views in just its first four days. In Agatha,...
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