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Strong Women by Crash
Strong Women of Horror When it comes to strong women in horror, there seems to be a lot of them. After all, the slasher sub-genre has the perpetual “final girl.” She’s the smart one who doesn’t drink or have sex, and stands up to the big, bad scumbag at the end of the film –…
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THE LAST KNOCK presents: New Horror 2019
Horror on the Horizon… A new year, a new you (whatever that means), and New Horror 2019 to rock your world. Well, we hope it does. That’s why The Last Knock has scoured media resources to give you a bloody taste of what’s coming. For New Horror 2019 we won’t just look at all the commercial crap…
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THE LAST KNOCK presents: Halloween
Halloween – The Beginning The new Halloween installment broke records in its first couple of weekends at the box office. Yes, it’s been forty years since John Carpenter’s foray into the franchise began in 1978. Back then, Michael Myers wowed audiences as “The Shape” – thanks to his William Shatner mask – and with a great…
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The Nun by Billy Crash
The Nun Treads on Tired Ground Corin Hardy, director of the ho-hum The Hallow, brings us another safe and formulaic commercial horror with The Nun. Part of the equally impotent Conjuring universe developed in part by James Wan, who co-wrote The Nun, the story supplies the origin story for the nun behind the painting in The…
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THE LAST KNOCK presents: Franchise of Fear: Cloverfield
Cloverfield Franchise For Cloverfield fans, the latest horror in the franchise, The Cloverfield Paradox has been a surprise. Suddenly, we’re off our little blue ball, stuck in the vacuum of space, and trying to save Earth as it peters out due to a lack of energy resources – right out of David Bowie’s “Five Years” from his The…
