Tweet A few weeks back I was home alone. I watched a movie, said goodnight to the gerbils, and went to my bed. Just as I was dropping off, I heard a key in the front door. This is fine, I have flat mates, so someone coming in late at night isn’t an odd occurrence. Except…. Both my flat mates…
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5 Must See Zombie Movies You’ve Never Seen
Tweet Considering the upcoming release of Fear the Walking Dead, it seems like the latest zombie craze is only getting started. But what do you do when you’ve already seen all the zombie films you’ve ever heard of? Obviously, find more! Here’s a quick retrospective on a few zombie films that, for one reason or another, have slipped through the…
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5 Unforgettable Creature Features from the ’80s!
Tweet The 80’s didn’t hold much back. If you were going to do anything, you did it big. This attitude was never more present than in the horror films of this great decade. From giant space slugs to murderous werewolves, these are the top monster flicks that are a must watch for any fan of 80’s horror. Deadly Friend (1986)…
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Bruce Lee: Commemorating the Dragon on his Birthday
Tweet Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Tony Jaa, along with every new up and coming martial arts star has been referred to as “The next Bruce Lee.” Lee practiced martial arts, taught others, brought martial arts to the mainstream via television and movies while breaking racial stereotypes in Hollywood. Now, some 40 years after his death, Bruce Lee is still the…
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5 Tips for How to Cope Now That The Forgotten Flix Podcast is No More
Tweet This is the end, beautiful friend…. We snickered, we cried, we marvelled as Jason and Joel heroically smashed the 2-hour barrier…. Yes my friends, the forgotten flix podcast is no more. All we’re left with is the sound of tumbleweed and the faint ghost of a terrible accent, like laughter in the wind. How to cope? What are we…
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Five Home Invasion Films to Freak You Out This Halloween
Tweet Films focusing on sudden “home invasions” exploit our fears that arbitrary violence can happen to good, innocent people, and that a locked door is no guarantee of safety. These films push the genre of horror in a different direction – without gratuitous bloodshed, hot chicks with fake boobs, or nonsensical plot twists – to creep out viewers by staging…
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Three Decades Ago, In a Movie Theater Down the Street: Ten Favorite Science Fiction Films of the 1980s
Tweet By: Dayton Ward The 1980s seems to be one of those “Love it or Hate it” decades. The clothes, the hairstyles, the music, the TV shows, and even the movies all have a very distinctive vibe that just screams “EIGHTIES!!,” right? I mean…neon and pastels, acid-washed jeans, leg warmers, mullets, trimmed beard stubble, Culture Club? Yikes. Sometimes, it’s hard…
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Top 10 80s Horror Movies
Tweet By: GregMo Roberts Editor’s Note: In our final installment of the Spooky Flix Fest Top 10 series we asked Greg Roberts from KillerReviews.com to write up his favorite horror movies of the 80s. Take a look at the list and let us know what you think! Having been born in the (gulp) 60’s, I have had the privilege of experiencing films…
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Top 10 ‘Juiciest’ Alfred Hitchcock Films of All Time
Tweet By: Ken Mogg Editor’s Note: In this installment of Forgotten Flix’s Top 10 we are honored to have Ken Mogg, one of the world’s foremost authorities on Alfred Hitchcock‘s work, contribute a list of what he considers the “juiciest” Hitchcock films of all time. Many of Hitchcock’s early films are in the public domain so we’ve included the full movie here if they…
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Top 10 Slasher Movies of the ‘80s – Part 2
Tweet by Jason Pyles (aka “Jay of the Dead”) Editor’s Note: For this installment of Forgotten Flix’s Top 10 we’ve asked horror guru and podcasting journeyman Jason Pyles to give us the Top 10 Slasher Films of the 80s. We loved Jay’s article. In fact we loved it so much we couldn’t cut anything out, so broke it into two posts. This…
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A Fan’s Tribute to The Incredibly Strange and Wonderful Ray Dennis Steckler
Tweet by Terry East (follow him on twitter @mutebullhorn) I received an e-mail from a friend that definitely caught me by surprise. It was news forwarded to him about the passing of Ray Dennis Steckler. Since his death, I have been watching and not-so-patiently waiting for a mainstream tribute to the director. Variety was the closest but also the shortest…
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Ten Christmas Flix for People Who Don’t Like Christmas Flix (Pt. 2)
Tweet Joel here… Continuing with part 2 of our guest post from Senor Dayton Ward (you can read part 1 here), I think you’ll find the next five movies on his list just as interesting. And if you’re anything like me, you try and watch Die Hard every year because it just puts you in the holiday spirit to watch…
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Ten Christmas Flix for People Who Don’t Like Christmas Flix (Pt. 1)
Tweet by Dayton Ward Check out Dayton’s Blog! Follow Dayton on Twitter! Dayton’s Facebook Page What’s that? You say you’re tired of the networks trotting out such well-worn annual staples as Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer or even How the Grinch Stole Christmas? You want an alternative to TNT’s yearly marathon back-to-back-to-frikkin’-back airings of A Christmas Story? Wanna give Ebenezer Scrooge…
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