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From the 1990s to the early 2010s, there was a healthy and profitable market for direct to video films thanks to video rental stores and the physical media business. Film titles that may not have been huge hits at the box office but still found success on home video got a slew of sequels. Some notable examples include;

• The Scorpion King (4 DTV sequels & prequels)
• Wrong Turn (5 DTV sequels & prequels)
• Wild Things (3 DTV sequels)
• Bring it On (6 DTV sequels)
• Escape Plan (2 DTV sequels)
• Tremors (6 DTV sequels)
• America Pie (5 DTV sequels)

While there are still some major studio divisions that are focused on the home video market (Universal 1440 Entertainment still operates an

Dario Argento is undoubtedly a master of horror but it's pretty much common knowledge that his films got much weaker after Opera from 1987 and his later films aren't as well regarded from critics or audiences.

Admittedly a lot of his films from the 2000s are not as available to stream. Films like Phantom of the Opera (1998) Sleepless (2001), The Card Player (2004), and Do You Like Hitchcock? (2005) are hard to access easily. However films like Dark Glasses (2022), Dracula 3D (2012), Giallo (2009), Mother of Tears (2007), The Stendhal Syndrome (1996) and Trauma (1993) are easier to find.

I had to physically rent a DVD of Sleepless and actually found that to be a very solid film. It wasn't

Just discovered while scrolling that the newest film from Patrick Lussier, director of things like My Bloody Valentine 3D and Drive Angry 3D, has been added to the service as a Tubi Original in the U.S.

It stars Bailee Madison as a college student who fakes her death to get placed into a morgue run by a deranged mortician (Jerry O'Connell).

Haven't gotten the chance to watch but wanted to flag this release to anyone who's fan of any of the people involved.

I just want to say that I really do like Jordan Peele and his filmography, but I am really curious on what you think his future as an Oscar competitor will be like.

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Get Out was a success with the Academy, and so was Blackkklansman as a producer but Us, NOPE, and Wendell & Wild haven't had the same luck. He seems to continue forward and will being going forward with his style of social satire genre thrillers, but reception to them seem to be decreasing. There's always an admiration for the craft and ideas that his film contain, but a growing criticism that they are feeling looser, messier, and too overstuffed.

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What do you think it'll take for Jordan Peele to

Infinity Pool has premiered at Sundance to mostly positive reviews, although many do describe it as being depraved, disgusting, and a surreal trip that will probably get an F cinemascore due to its content. It's set to be released by NEON this weekend.

It's directed by Brandon Cronenberg, whose father David Cronenberg also had his last body horror film, Crimes of the Future, released by NEON. That film opened to 1.1 million, and finished at 2.4 million domestically.

Do you see Infinity Pool making more than Crimes of the Future? Or is the film too off putting to break out any higher than Crimes did?

It was recently announced that Apple would partner with a theatrical distributor for its upcoming F1 movie with Brad Pitt, giving it a theatrical window of at least 30 days and a significant marketing push. This is on top of their upcoming partnership with Paramount to theatrically release Killers of the Flower Moon as well. This comes with the news that Netflix is also becoming more open to giving their films a lengthier theatrical window and pushes as theatrical events.

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For years Amazon initially did partner with distributors to give its titles proper theatrical runs before making their way to Amazon Prime months after a theatrical run. However after the severe under perform

I've recently rewatched 2001's Valentine for the first time in years and while it gets lumped in with the self aware and meta late 90s slashers of the time (Scream, Urban Legend, I Know What You Did Last Summer, H20), you can really feel an 80s vibe to it in tone, motive, and execution.

Giallo and slashers have many similar elements that this film has (gory kills, whodunnit mystery, beautiful female victims) but I think the elements that Valentine has that could push it into the giallo terroritory are the psycho sexual elements of the killer, the explicit gender power dynamics the film plays with, the "useless" detective trope seen in many gialli, and the film does have some visual style in

So Apple and Will Smith won big last night, and they have big "runaway slave turned civil war soldier" movie set to be released this year. Do you think the fall out of Will's actions negative or will it all be forgiven by that point?

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Other potential contenders that AppleTV+ has set to release this year include Tetris, The Greatest Beer Run Ever, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Cha Cha Real Smooth, so they don't have to put all their eggs in the Emancipation basket. Admittedly neither Antoine Fuqua or Bill Collage inspire much confidence in Oscar hopes based off their spotty track records but I bet Apple still plans to push it.

Sundance is happening virtually again this year and with that I'm curious if anyone has been watching the horror films in it's line up.

The only one I can catch this year is Resurrection. Rebecca Hall stars as a woman who finds that a man from her past has come back to her life and things get twisted from there. The man is played by Tim Roth. Such a strange film, that's very slow yet disturbing for various reasons. Rebecca Hall probably gives her best performance ever in this movie.