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Top 10 Alien Horror Films by Crash
Alien Horror Films: The Best Sure, Alien horror films falls under “horror/science-fiction” but this is specifically about aliens and how they have wormed their way into our human existence. Some may be fun, some obscure, and others are downright frightening. The frightening alien horror films bring pure terror and hopelessness – and that’s most definitely…
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Promising Young Woman by Jonny Numb
Promising Young Woman: Advancing Toward the Inevitable Promising Young Woman is a revenge film that cuts differently than I Spit on Your Grave or Ms. 45, but stands alongside those efforts as one of the best of its kind. It differentiates itself from conventional thriller fare by advancing toward organic-feeling inevitabilities, not mechanical twists and turns.…
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Kill Character Stereotypes by Crash
The Trope of it All… Crash Palace has written about tropes before, and Jonny Numb and Billy Crash have discussed them on The Last Knock horror podcast. Why? Because they’re redundancies and create an eye-rolling foray into malaise. They must be stopped. What’s worse? Character stereotypes. And they must be stopped even more. Stock Characters…
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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: Alien
Alien: 40th Anniversary On June 22, 1979, Ridley Scott’s Alien was unleashed upon a global audience. What should have been a B-movie venture, proved to be a worthy, quality driven film for both horror and science fiction fans alike. The film’s success solidified Scott’s position as a solid director of genre films, while launching the careers of…
