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#POCtober: The Blair Witch Project (1999)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D51QgOHrCj0

Directors: Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez
The most influential horror flick of the last 15 years, The Blair Witch Project single-handedly set off the whole found footage sub-genre avalanche. For better or worse, its style is still the most imitated in horror film for both big studios and indie contenders. Because its motif has been so frequent borrowed, the backlash over time has been to dismiss TBWP‘s success as a fluke. But it is one of the only important horror movies in recent memory that can claim anything much in the way of originality. In a genre crowded with rewrites and remakes and well-worn tropes this is an accomplishment that endures- long after the film’s ferocity has lapsed.

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#POCtober: Rigor Mortis (2013)

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Director: Juno Mak, Producer: Takashi Shimizu
Hong Kong’s multi-talented wunderkind Juno Mak has struck gold in his every creative endeavor in music, fashion, and film. As the director of this 2013 vampire flick, Mak pairs up with J Horror innovator Takashi Shimizu who birthed the Ju-on/Grudge franchises.

The resulting movie pays tribute to Ricky Lau’s 1985 horror/comedy Mr Vampire and bends the fourth wall by including cast members from that iconic film. Eschewing the Western take on bloodsucker mythology, both films instead hinge Chinese folklore’s jiangshi, a Taoist creature roughly described as a “hopping vampire”.

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#POCtober: The Wolfman (2010)

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Benicio Del Toro
Originally, this film was to be directed by the astonishing Mark Romanek. Instead, Universal went with Joe Johnston whose chief appeal seems to have been his promise to get the whole thing done and dusted in under 3 months. The results of this decision are abundantly painful.

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#POCtober: “Path” Leads to New Chilean Horror Film

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For fans of the survival sub-genre

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#POCtober: Queen of the Damned (2002)

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Aaliyah
Queen of the Damned was released six months after Aaliyah’s death and is dedicated to her memory.

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#POCtober: Trailer for Jason Momoa’s “Wolves”

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#POCtober: SE7EN (1995)

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Morgan Freeman
Both Al Pacino and William Hurt were considered for the role of Somerset; selecting Morgan Freeman says something about Hollywood’s then-dawning realization of his caliber as an artist and a box office draw. Even so, the studio’s efforts to flag Freeman for an Academy Award and an MTV Movie Award fell short that following year.

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#POCtober: The Crow (1994)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEfMQKaAhfs

Brandon Lee, Ernie Hudson, Bai Ling
Remembering Brandon Lee’s Death 20 Years After The Crow

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#POCtober: Blacula (1972)

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William Marshall, Vonetta McGee

One of the top grossing films of the 1972, Blacula was the first movie to win Best Horror Film at the Saturn Awards. Its success inspired a sequel (1973’s Scream, Blacula, Scream) along with a string of blaxploitation horror films including Blackenstein.

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#POCtober: [REC] (2007)

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Manuela Velasco

I got pulled right into this- a hard thing to accomplish with found footage horror. They were able to create some serious tension and scares with a very simple combo of elements on a simple set. Not enough gore to trigger the squick factor but there are def some juicy moments.