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FURMAN ON FILM
Jan 8, 20232 min read
We're All Going to the World's Fair - 2022
This review contain spoilers. Viewing We’re All Going to the World’s Fair was, shall I say, a confounding experience. I generally like to...
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Oct 26, 20223 min read
Speak No Evil - 2022
This review may contain spoilers. As close friends recently told me as I was just spitballing about my gut-level reactions immediately...
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Oct 10, 20223 min read
Bodies Bodies Bodies - 2022
I wanted to love this film, but, alas, I merely ended up liking it. See, the real trouble is, I think it’s the very construction of the...
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Aug 28, 20222 min read
The Thing - 1982
Happy to report what to many is probably painfully obvious - on rewatch four decades later, The Thing is STILL a stone cold masterpiece....
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Oct 23, 20213 min read
The Amityville Horror - 1979
In a film aimed at shocking the audiences of its time with a tale of familial disquiet inside a home besieged by any number of dark...
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Oct 21, 20213 min read
The Omen - 1976
This review may contain spoilers. The Omen is a conflation of opposites - a film that is at once significantly dated by today's...
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Oct 5, 20213 min read
A Nightmare on Elm Street - 1984
From the moment I first encountered it, the original A Nightmare on Elm Street has always been a cornucopia of delights for me....
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Sep 30, 202147 min read
FOF Top 38 (North) American Horror Films
HAUNTED HOUSES, DEMONIC POSSESSION, VAMPS, WOLVES, FOUND FOOTAGE, AND MASKED KILLERS - A 60+ YEAR LEGACY OF TERROR ON CELLULOID...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
The Conjuring - 2013
This is one of the best horror films I have EVER seen, and I’m not exaggerating in the least. I’ve spent the better part of a week...
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Aug 11, 20212 min read
A Quiet Place - 2018
In A Quiet Place, director John Krasinski accomplishes a truly remarkable feat. It's one of his earliest outings behind the camera, yet...
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May 14, 20219 min read
Where Genre Horror Meets Auteurist Delight – The Shining in Retrospect
May 23, 1980 The central conceit of TWIM, birthed from the expansive brain of my friend and its creator, Scott Sipling, explores the...
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Dec 30, 20204 min read
Host - 2020
Since the seminal work of 1999, The Blair Witch Project, the found footage genre of horror has admittedly lost some of its luster. It...
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Nov 23, 20204 min read
Fright Night - 1985
This film, to me, is the definition of a cult classic. I cannot say that I spend my days perusing mountains of listicles in the "greatest...
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Nov 10, 20203 min read
The Howling - 1981
Joe Dante is a freaking legend. I don't care that many people hardly know his name. Nor do I mind that his filmography frequently yo-yo's...
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Oct 15, 20202 min read
The Lost Boys - 1987
Sing it with me now: "Cry, little sister (Thou shall not faaaaaall), Come, come to your brother! (Thou shall not diiiiiiie)." Parts of...
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Sep 21, 20204 min read
Alien - 1979
Are there any original takes for forty plus year old movies? It's kind of hard to imagine, especially for one as airtight as this one....
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Oct 27, 20172 min read
Get Out - 2017
Of all the films released in 2017, none balanced unchartered creativity with tremendous nuts and bolts execution as well as Get Out – a...
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