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Monthly Archives: October 2019

In Theaters Now – Countdown

October 31, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

October comes to a close and so too must Horrortoberfest but first one final treat from these tricksters. We said we weren’t doing an In Theaters episode this month but […]

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Horrortoberfest 2019 – Day 30 – Brightburn

October 30, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

  There have been many takes on “What if Superman was a bad guy?” over the years. With Ultraman leading the Crime Syndicate, communist dictator Superman, and Nazi Superman just […]

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X-pounded Universe 103 – Shadowcatastrophe

October 29, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

Mysterious aliens arrive and start messing with our transformed friends on Xhaldia!  Meanwhile Shadowcat is apparently just wandering through the walls of the Enterprise because X-Men, like wizards, have no […]

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Horrortoberfest 2019 – Day 29 – The Visit

October 29, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

  I’m not one of those people that jumped on the Shyamalan hate bandwagon. He’s definitely made some stinkers but there are a ton of directors that never got the […]

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Horrortoberfest 2019 – Day 28 – A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

October 28, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

  When this movie originally came out there was a lot of people that were vocally trashing it. For me, the original Nightmare on Elm Street movies were my gateway drug […]

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Horrortoberfest 2019 – Day 27 – Truth or Dare (2018)

October 27, 2019by systemmastery 1 Comment

  A while ago I watch another movie called Truth or Dare thinking I was going to be watching this movie. It was so bad that I forced Jef to watch […]

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Horrortoberfest 2019 – Day 26 – Happy Death Day 2U

October 26, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

After the first movie ended with the closed time loop and everything all worked out; I was wondering how exactly they were going to pull off doing a sequel. The […]

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Horrortoberfest 2019 – Day 25 – Happy Death Day

October 25, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

  Turns out what was originally just going to be Purge week is turning into an entire Blumhouse Productions week. This is another one that I have been meaning to see […]

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X-pounded Universe 102 – Just call me Archangel of the Morning, Baby

October 24, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

The pride and craftsmanship our author takes in the simple act of a “Wolverine drinks some prune juice” gag is more obvious and satisfactory than any sense of accomplishment either […]

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Horrortoberfest 2019 – Day 24 – The First Purge

October 24, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

  Now for the last of the films in the Purge franchise, at least so far. While each movie has tried to shift focus on to different aspects surrounding the yearly […]

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Horrortoberfest 2019 – Day 23 – The Purge: Election Year

October 23, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

  At first we saw the Purge through the eyes of the rich, then we saw it through the poor, and now we get a blending of the two. A […]

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Dark Realms – System Mastery 159

October 22, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

We didn’t know it when we started, but there’s a theme to this year’s Ween episodes beyond just leftover horror games floating around the library.  And that theme is “Oops […]

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Horrortoberfest 2019 – Day 22 – The Purge: Anarchy

October 22, 2019by systemmastery 1 Comment

  Now for the second installment in the Purge series of movies. Where the first one focused on the perspective of Purge Night invading into what would normally be a […]

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Horrortoberfest 2019 – Day 21 – The Purge

October 21, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

  While the idea of the Purge has soaked into my mind via the pop culture zeitgeist, I had somehow managed to never see one of these before, so it’s […]

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Horrortoberfest 2019 – Day 20 – The Midnight Matinee (2017)

October 20, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

  This is going to conclude anthology week and I could not be happier. The premise of the movie being that all these are being showed at a movie theater […]

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Horrortoberfest 2019 – Day 19 – The Field Guide to Evil

October 19, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

  Now this is much more along the lines of what an anthology should be used for. Eight stories from eight directors from eight different countries all sharing folktales from […]

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Horrortoberfest 2019 – Day 18 – Horror Hotel (2015)

October 18, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

  If you’re reading this and you haven’t listened to the episode of Movie Mastery where we watched Return to Horror Hotel then a lot of this might not make sense. […]

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Movie Mastery – Return to Horror Hotel (2019)

October 17, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

This horror anthology runs the gamut of topics from the subversive quality of platonic male touch to the charming and lovely nature of middle America that we all still seem […]

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Horrortoberfest 2019 – Day 16 – Watch if You Dare

October 16, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

  For the next in the horror anthology series, we have the rare one that eschews a framing mechanism for the short films and just plays them back-to-back. I have […]

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Horrortoberfest 2019 – Day 15 – Charlotte

October 15, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

  To make the transition from Creepy Doll Week to Anthology Week easier, I found a horror anthology that features a creepy doll as the background story. Anthologies have several […]

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