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Mike’s Portland Horror Film Festival Review: The Stairs (2021)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ Straight outta the Pacific Northwest comes another joint from the same team that brought you 2018’s Big Legend.  A far more daring, if not a little less linear, than their first outing with Bigfoot, 2021’s The Stairs is a complex bit of business wrapped up in a cautionary camping tale. 
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Joseph’s Review: Man Under Table

★★★ out of ★★★★★ Man Under Table is a surreal, darkly comic commentary on the trials and tribulations of independent filmmaking. It has an air of dread and bleakness of the horror-adjacent kind.
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Eric’s Portland Horror Film Festival Review: Miimaland (2020)

★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ A group of paranormal investigators gains access to an abandoned amusement park in Malaysia called Miimaland, as part of a challenge by a shady hustler. What starts out as an amusing lark becomes a deadly curse trap that proves to be a haunted destiny for the crew.
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Mike’s Review: Maniac (2012)

🔪🔪🔪🔪 out of 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 Just when you thought it was safe to go to the movies, or watch a horror film, or be a woman, along comes a nasty bit of business courtesy of Frodo Baggins. 
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Eric’s North Bend Film Fest Review: Tailgate (2021)

★★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ The ultimate road rage movie that collides with a nail-biting home invasion film. This Dutch film absolutely pours the intensity on in a way unseen in many a year. A rude and headstrong man picks the wrong enemy in a highway tailgating incident, subjecting his entire family to the revenge of a nuanced killer who uses rat poison as his weapon of choice.
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Eric’s Review: Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)

★★★ out of ★★★★★ Once more into the maze! It's still full of tricks, traps, misdirection, and impossible challenges. As it was the last time, the killer escape rooms are hugely imaginative, even if the overriding plot isn't. It's an entertaining low-calorie thrill ride that is as entertaining and exciting as a roller coaster, but it has about as much nuance and character development as an carnie ride as well.
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Joseph’s Review: Great White

★★★ out of ★★★★★ Great White delivers some effective shark-attack–movie thrills with solid acting but not many new elements.
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The Scariest Things Review: The Forever Purge (2021)

★★★1/2 and ★★★★ out of ★★★★★ The Purge series has a way of reflecting the anxieties of the moment, and the latest installment, The Forever Purge, pours gasoline on the subject of immigration and the ugly political divide within the United States. It is a ferocious dystopian view that if you squint, is frightening as to how close we are to this dark reality. Your feelings about this film may get framed largely from your political point of view.
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Mike Review: The Fury (1978)

★ out of ★★★★★ It looks like a horror film. It acts like a horror film. It’s directed by cinema great and heir to the Hitchcock throne. Its promotional materials portend horror is just around the corner. But don’t be fooled, this super-star-packed 1970s telekinetic hype machine is nothing but a boring and unnecessarily long after-school special.
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Joseph’s Review: Werewolves Within

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ The new park ranger in town teams up with the local mail delivery person to try and calm down the unconventional locals when it seems a werewolf may be on the loose in this lighthearted creature-feature comedy.
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Robert’s Review: The Superdeep (2020)

★★★ out of ★★★★★ In 1984, an ambitious epidemiologist with flexible ethics is called on by the government of the USSR to investigate -- and collect samples from -- a top secret research site built inside the deepest hole ever drilled into the Earth.
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Mike’s Review: Fulci for Fake (2019)

★★ out of ★★★★★ Some will say the epicenter of the Fulci universe lie in the greatness of the gory triptych: The New York Ripper, The House by the Cemetery, and The Beyond. Others will point to the earlier, less gory but equally frightening confines of The Psychic, Don't Torture a Duckling, and A Lizard in a Woman's Skin. No matter where you fall on the Lucio Fulci spectrum it’s awfully hard to argue about his immense and ever-lasting output. Stanley Kubrik only directed 13 films. But Fulci? He directed 61.
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Robert’s Review: Slaxx (2020)

★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ Killer pants. Designer jeans to die for. Corporate greed meets its match in a pair of pants thirsting for vengeance.
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Mike’s Review: Wrong Turn (2021)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ Once a film franchise crosses over in to four, five, or six sequels, or god forbid a complete reboot, it deserves lampooning and a heaping dose of criticism. That many sequels is often a reflection of the imagination tank run completely dry. Take your original story/villain and wash, rinse, and repeat.
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Mike’s Review: Begotten (1989)

★★★ out of ★★★★★ Umm what just happened? Was that a dream? Did I just have a stroke? Did my ego and id simultaneously implode? Unclear on all fronts. One thing is certain. This is a film like no other and it’s not something you can ever unsee.
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Mike’s Review: The Amusement Park (1973/2021)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ Everyone gets old. It’s no more complicated than this little horrifying truism. The world of horror is filled with ghosts, homicidal nutcases, Pazzuzu, creepies, crawlies, and robot-monsters. But, nothing, repeat, nothing, is more frightening at the prospect of losing your mental and physical faculties and facing the sad and potential finite end of life.
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