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Posted on 04/16/2015 10:50:23 AM PDT by EveningStar
It has been years since audiences have been given a horror movie that wasn't a carbon copy of another film—big-budget film producers aren't exactly flowing with ideas. Thankfully, the Horror Showcase at the Newport Beach Film Festival, running April 23-30, aims to counter that fatigue with a new crop of filmmakers outside of the Hollywood milieu, presenting seven short films and one feature film that not only break the mold of clichés, but also eat their brains . . . or something.
Because if there's one thing we can be mindful of, it's that some of the best, most memorable horror films of all time were indie films. George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead, Wes Craven's Last House On the Left, Oren Peli's Paranormal Activity—scant finances don't necessarily dictate a film's aesthetic success or influence. But the first Paranormal Activity was still pretty long ago, so where does horror go from there?
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I just figured it was called, “ Return of
the Undead Clinton.”.
Morlocks just eat them
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