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Mark Cappelletty
Playa del Rey, CA
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Holy Friday The 13th!
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Each year, Scream Factory seems to outdo itself with insane box sets, ranging from the Halloween set they put together with Anchor Bay to last year's killer two-fer box sets of the complete The Omen series and The Fly franchise. This year — out, appropriately enough, on October 13 —... Continue reading
Posted Jul 14, 2020 at GeekWeek
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A Toast To Larry Cohen
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Time moves on. There are fewer classic Hollywood legends today than there were yesterday and fewer even in the horror field— and even most of them have either retired (John Carpenter) or moved away from their genre roots (David Cronenberg). With the passing of Larry Cohen on March 24, we’ve... Continue reading
Posted Apr 1, 2019 at GeekWeek
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The Post-Valentine's Day Blues
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Now how was YOUR Valentine’s Day? Filled with candy and flowers or one with a large bottle of cheap wine and re-runs of “The Property Brothers” on HGTV? The holiday is always divisive — it’s an expression of love for some, a cynical way to sell fake ideas of romance... Continue reading
Posted Feb 15, 2019 at GeekWeek
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A Thanksgiving Turkey Called MAC AND ME
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The past couple of years have been ones of beginnings and ends to Mystery Science Theater 3000, now celebrating its 30th (!) anniversary. We’ve seen the regular run of MST3K box sets come to an end due to rights issues with the remaining episodes (though Shout Factory are re-releasing the... Continue reading
Posted Nov 16, 2018 at GeekWeek
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More Stories! More Horror!
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Scary anthology movies used to be a dime-a-dozen. From 1945’s Dead Of Night through the Amicus tales of the early ‘70’s — with Scream Factory having recently put out a quite nice version of The House That Dripped Blood (1971) earlier this year (come for the Peter Cushing and Christopher... Continue reading
Posted Oct 31, 2018 at GeekWeek
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 Will Never Die
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It was a bittersweet announcement from Shout Factory last year that, while they were still dedicated to distributing the remaining episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000, due to licensing issues, Volume XXXIX is probably the last regular collection we’ll get (for completists, there are eleven episodes yet to make it... Continue reading
Posted May 29, 2018 at GeekWeek
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You Better Watch Out
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You’ve survived Christmas, Christmas Eve, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, but it takes Boxing Day — where the 19th-century British custom of giving one’s postal carrier (or other “tradesmen”) boxes full of money or presents the day after Christmas has transformed into a gridlocked mall hellscape of returned gifts and lost receipts... Continue reading
Posted Dec 26, 2017 at GeekWeek
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Thankful For MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000
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Thanksgiving has hit, and while 2017 has been a mixed bag on a number of fronts for a number of reasons, it’s been a banner year for fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000, who’ve witnessed what was thought to be the impossible: a new season of the show, currently streaming... Continue reading
Posted Nov 23, 2017 at GeekWeek
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The Creepies And Crawlies Of Summer
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Summer is here, complete with hungry and often angry residents of your backyard, garden, local beach or forest making their first appearances of the year. Summer often means bees, mosquitos and the occasional angry horse-fly, but compared to what happens with the bugs of Empire Of The Ants, the snakes... Continue reading
Posted Jun 28, 2017 at GeekWeek
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None More Black - Black Christmas (1974)
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The Yuletide horror film has become, by and large, a comedy of clichés— with the exception of recent and off-beat comic thrillers like Rare Exports and Krampus, the idea of a maniac — often dressed like Santa Claus himself — knocking off teenagers, college students and hapless dolts on Christmas... Continue reading
Posted Dec 25, 2016 at GeekWeek
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Pass The Turkey With A Side Order Of Cheese
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Thanksgiving is tomorrow and with that, we stuff ourselves on turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce and six fan-selected episodes of the Best Of The Worst of Mystery Science Theater 3000 as they bring back the beloved “Turkey Day Marathon.” The cheese begins streaming at 9 AM PST and 12 noon EST... Continue reading
Posted Nov 23, 2016 at GeekWeek
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Invasion Of The Remake Snatchers
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The remake? Is there a more dreaded word in Hollywood (other than perhaps the more desperate “reimagining”)? Too many films — from classics to near-forgotten B-movie fare — have been put through the remake wringer, less because of any sort of artistic merit and more because a known entity is... Continue reading
Posted Oct 31, 2016 at GeekWeek
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Wes Craven Remembered
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It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since horror master Wes Craven, best known as the father of the Nightmare On Elm Street and Scream franchises, passed away from brain cancer, leaving behind a hole the genre has yet to fill. Unlike contemporaries like John Carpenter or David Cronenberg,... Continue reading
Posted Sep 3, 2016 at GeekWeek
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Mystery Science Theater Round-Up
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With the Mystery Science Theater 3000 reunion show happening in Minneapolis tonight (broadcast in select cinemas via Fathom Events on June 28 and repeated on July 12), it’s time to take a look at the latest collections of MST3K put out by Shout! Factory and get a primer for the... Continue reading
Posted Jun 28, 2016 at GeekWeek
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The Spooktacular Tales From The Crypt Hits Blu-Ray!
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Following in the footsteps of our recent wave of supernatural Blu-Ray releases, here comes a particularly ghoulish delight. Tales From The Crypt was an anthology series based on the 1950s-era horror comic of the same name that ran on HBO for seven seasons from 1989 through 1996. Executive produced by... Continue reading
Posted Oct 31, 2015 at GeekWeek
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The 70's Are Coming, The Occult Is Here!
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If there was any theme to horror movies — particularly big-budget studio pictures — in the 1970’s, it was religion and the occult. For every Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Halloween, there was a wave of movies centered around ghosts, ghouls, the undead and the possibility of the Antichrist turning up... Continue reading
Posted Oct 30, 2015 at GeekWeek
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A Double-Dose Of Cheese
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Shout Factory hits us with a double-dose of “cheese movies— the worst you can find” with the releases of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K for those in the know) Volume XXXIII and Volume One. The former is the latest extension of the classic sci-fi comedy TV show, where show creator... Continue reading
Posted Sep 22, 2015 at GeekWeek
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I Love The 80s
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I LOVE THE 80s Horror cinema in the ‘80’s was dominated by the slasher film and, with it, heavy metal. From Freddy Krueger — who palled around with everyone from Iron Maiden to Dokken — to Jason Voorhees (who can forget Alice Cooper’s “He’s Back (The Man Behind The Mask)”?),... Continue reading
Posted Jun 10, 2015 at GeekWeek
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Of Bots And Martians And Ghoulies
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Tax season is finally over, so grab a frosty beverage (or one on the rocks) and kick back with another volume (32 in the series) of Shout Factory’s venerable Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K for short); you won’t need any appetizers, as this box set delivers more rich cheese than... Continue reading
Posted Apr 17, 2015 at GeekWeek
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Bah, Humbug
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The humble “Christmas Episode” of any series either means an overly-earnest piece where the characters all bond together when they’re stuck in the show’s setting instead of being with their families or, particularly in the ‘70’s or ‘80’s, an adaptation of “A Christmas Carol,” with the show’s grumpiest or most... Continue reading
Posted Dec 22, 2014 at GeekWeek
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Turkey Day, Mystery Science Theater 3000-Style
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To most, Thanksgiving means turkey, stuffing, gravy, and the inevitable post-meal tryptophan coma. But to many, Thanksgiving also means memories of “The Turkey Day Marathon,” the non-stop, round-the-clock pile-on of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (aka MST3K) that ran for five consecutive Thanksgivings Days in the early ’90’s on Comedy Central.... Continue reading
Posted Nov 26, 2014 at GeekWeek
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A Very Vincent Price Halloween
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Vincent Price was a man of many talents— noted actor of stage and screen, art historian, gourmet chef, and all-around bon vivant (and one-time guest on “The Dating Game”). But Price will always be remembered for his body of work in the horror genre, with his debonair mustache and cultured... Continue reading
Posted Oct 31, 2014 at GeekWeek
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The Vengeance Of Fall
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Labor Day is over, school is back in session and the days are getting shorter— and the nights longer. Autumn is here and, with it, we slowly inch toward October, it’s time to put the chill in the air with three horror titles that couldn’t be any more different, but... Continue reading
Posted Sep 5, 2014 at GeekWeek
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: XXX
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Shout Factory brings us, fortunately not a Triple-X version of the venerable Mystery Science Theater 3000 (aka MST3K), but instead the thirtieth box-set installation of the iconic movie-riff show. Host and show creator Joel Hodgson (later replaced by the show’s head writer, Mike Nelson) and his robot friends Tom Servo,... Continue reading
Posted Aug 6, 2014 at GeekWeek
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Werewolves Of Manitoba
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Some great movies just fall through the cracks— lack of star-power, bad distribution, or something as simple as a tough-to-synopsize-in-one-sentence concept can all lead to the strongest movies to fall under the radar. But if a movie is good enough and strikes the right nerves with the right audience, it... Continue reading
Posted Aug 6, 2014 at GeekWeek
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