Category: Movies
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You may have missed these fine details in The Skeleton Key (2005)
The plot twist in The Skeleton Key (2005) is a proper plot twist. It entirely changes your understanding of the plot up to that point. So you need to watch this movie at least twice to properly appreciate its story. Even then, you are going to miss some small details hidden in the plain sight.
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Who is the deadliest corpse: Jane Doe, Hannah Grace, or Gramma?
Instead of resting in peace, these three corpses have chosen violence. They have different motives, different powers, and different danger levels. There are survivors from one of them, one is 100% lethal, and the remaining one is debatable. Read the article and decide whether you agree with me or not.
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How a single word can change the meaning of a movie | The Skeleton Key (2005)
Don’t underestimate The Skeleton Key (2005). It looks like a typical horror movie, but it is not. It has a well written plot and a massive plot twist. Single watch-through is not enough to fully appreciate and untangle its plot because characters are not who you think they are.
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Witches in Stephen King’s “Gramma” and “The Skeleton Key” have similar motives
These are two stories where the evil is going to win at the end. They are about two creepy old witches who are praying on young innocent people to prolong their lifespans. One is Stephen King’s short story Gramma and the other one is a movie named The Skeleton Key.
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Mercy (2014) has failed Stephen King’s short story, “Gramma”
Gramma is not an easy story to adapt as a movie because most of it unfolds through a little child’s internal monologues. Instead of finding a clever way to translate the original story onto the screen, Mercy chose to cram new, unnecessary horror elements into the movie.
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It is not possible to escape her curse | The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
Many characters in horror movies act like idiots and get killed because of their stupidity. But protagonists in the movie The Autopsy of Jane Doe act logically, and try their best to survive. But the way Jane Doe operates, make it impossible to break away from her hold.
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Heart Eyes Killer has a long way to go to become a slasher icon.
Heart Eyes (2025) movie creators are hoping that their creation, Heart Eyes Killer is going to be an iconic character in slasher subgenre. My two cents is that this one movie isn’t enough to lift HEK up to slasher icons like Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, and Freddy Krueger.
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Kraven the Hunter lost aura points to Calypso Ezili
There is an emptiness in the Kraven the Hunter world. Also eerie uncanny valley sense to the CGI animals in it. On top of that there’s a problem with Calypso Ezili taking out tracking work from Kraven which in turn reduces the impressiveness of Kraven’s “The World’s Best Hunter” title.
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Lisa Frankenstein, what are you trying to tell us?
I know Kathryn Newton from Supernatural series and saw her starring in this latest retelling of the classic Frankenstein monster movie. I like creature movies and I like Kathryn Newton, so I tuned in to watch how Lisa Frankenstein is going to create a monster and what kind of modern spin they are going to…
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Did you catch these retcons in the new Croods 2 movie?
There are 4 retcons (that I know of) in The Croods: A New Age (2020) movie. Some of them do not affect the story that much, but others completely dismiss some character developments in The Croods (2013) movie.
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Overlord (2018) – Nazi zombie serum: What is it and what does it do?
Overlord (2018) is a World War 2 movie with a paranormal twist. In its parallel universe, Nazis were experimenting on a serum which has the ability to reanimate people. Nazis were trying to create super soldiers with that. But how does that serum work? What does it do to people?
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Outside the Wire (2021): Captain Leo won his mission in the end
Capt. Leo was an advanced bio-tech robot. He grew conscious about the dangers of using his kind of robots in the future warfare. So he tried to protest the robotics program by attacking The US with a nuclear missile. Fortunately Lt. Harp stopped him. But I think Capt. Leo ultimately managed to prove his point.
