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February 2025

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The Monkey: Slaughter over Substance in Scare-Free Stephen King Adaptation

by Lee Shoquist
February 22, 2025

If a horror movie scares you, swell. If not, no sale. And last year, Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs, about a heartland satanist spree killer, was an A24 marketing success (“Scariest Movie Ever!”) and a shivery chiller courtesy of an all-in Nicolas Cage as its titular…

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Heart Eyes: Banal Romantic Comedy Interrupted by Slasher

by Lee Shoquist
February 7, 2025

Whether scrappy indie (Terrifier, Late Night with the Devil, Strange Darling), studio gloss (A Quiet Place: Day One) or awards prestige (The Substance, Noseratu), horror films almost always bank tremendous profits. Last year alone they bludgeoned near a billion dollars from moviegoers with a…

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Lee Shoquist is a film critic and member of the Chicago Film Critics Association and leads over 20 monthly film discussion groups with more than three hundred, multi-generational attendees across the Chicago area and periodically in New York and Los Angeles. Learn more or contact Lee.

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