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Brian Haas @brianhaas.bsky.social · 12h

The plot isn’t exactly original but the practical effects are quite good & it’s got that absurd entertainment factor present in a lot of Italian rip offs. I wonder if the director had a bet on how many pointless racketball sequences he could squeeze into 90 minutes. Dumb fun.

On Night Flight Plus

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Brian Haas @brianhaas.bsky.social · 12h

Now Watching: Primal Rage

A reporter attacked by a monkey being experimented on by a Florida university unwittingly unleashes a virus that causes violent rage on the unsuspecting school.

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Brian Haas @brianhaas.bsky.social · 14h

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Brian Haas @brianhaas.bsky.social · 14h

The plot feels straight out of a soap opera & lead Mark Soper is chewing as much scenery as he possibly can. If you feel like your Thanksgiving dinners are psychotic at least they probably don’t end with a family gun battle while threatening a baby. That’s not cranberry sauce!

On Night Flight Plus

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Brian Haas @brianhaas.bsky.social · 14h

Now Watching: Blood Rage

A twin wrongly institutionalized for the murder his brother committed escapes after ten years causing his evil sibling to go on another bloody rampage. While I’m always sad to say goodbye to Halloween that doesn’t mean the violent massacres need come to an end.

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Brian Haas @brianhaas.bsky.social · 14h

You finally went to Rocky!!!

Brian Haas @brianhaas.bsky.social · 1d

A who’s who of indie horror filmmaking are aboard, including a posthumous role for beloved director Maddie Deering. It’s so fun.

#100horrormoviesin92days

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Brian Haas @brianhaas.bsky.social · 1d

Now Watching: Ssssstoner Snake

Friends going to a Halloween party run afoul of an intergalactic criminal snake that has crash landed on and driven into a homicidal frenzy by pot smoke. Wonderfully cheesy, this feels very much like the low budget late night horror schlock that inspired it.

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Brian Haas @brianhaas.bsky.social · 2d

I really liked Gladys as a villain when I first saw this but I’m starting to feel like she’s on the short list of truly awful all time baddies. Great fucking stuff.

On HBO Max

Brian Haas @brianhaas.bsky.social · 2d

Paranoid and deeply unsettling, I went from enjoying this movie to thinking it’s a modern masterpiece with a strong allegorical undertones for addiction and the toxicities of capitalism.

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Brian Haas @brianhaas.bsky.social · 2d

Now Watching: Weapons

A community is left reeling after all but one child from a single classroom disappear on the same night.

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Brian Haas @brianhaas.bsky.social · 4d

When I was a film programmer, I only booked one movie in the Halloween series and Michael Myers isn’t an involved in that plot. It’s even got a great whammy ending. One of my favorite Halloween movies of all time.

On Peacock

Brian Haas @brianhaas.bsky.social · 4d

Now Watching: Halloween III: Season Of The Witch

A doctor uncovers a conspiracy to use Halloween masks to kill children. An all time Halloween classic, the story is wonderfully depraved and and wholly original.

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Brian Haas @brianhaas.bsky.social · 4d

He has such good chemistry with Julie Bowen and all his usual friends make appearances. Fun for the whole family.

On Netflix

Brian Haas @brianhaas.bsky.social · 4d

Now Watching: Hubie Halloween

A good natured scaredy-cat spends every Halloween keeping the festivities in Salem Massachusetts safe for his fellow town folk. Big hearted and silly, this is for sure my favorite later Sandler comedy.

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Brian Haas @brianhaas.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve been following it for ages thru production. As fun as I’d hoped it would be based on the concept

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