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FURMAN ON FILM


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...
Jan 8, 20232 min read
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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...
Oct 27, 20223 min read
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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...
Oct 11, 20223 min read
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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....
Aug 29, 20222 min read
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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...
Oct 24, 20213 min read
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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...
Oct 22, 20213 min read
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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....
Oct 6, 20213 min read
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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...
Oct 1, 202147 min read
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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...
Sep 24, 20212 min read
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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...
Aug 12, 20212 min read
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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...
May 15, 20219 min read
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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...
Dec 30, 20204 min read
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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...
Nov 23, 20204 min read
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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...
Nov 10, 20203 min read
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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...
Oct 16, 20202 min read
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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....
Sep 22, 20204 min read
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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...
Oct 28, 20172 min read
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