Happy Holidays everyone! It’s my other favorite time of the year (along with Halloween, of course).
So… we survived Summerween. We survived Halloween. Now what if I told you that the holiday season, one of the jolliest times of the year, also has roots in fear? Yes, underneath all the cheer there are dark things lurking.
Like a franchise threequel, get ready for… Creepmas.
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You may have heard it before. “The book is always better.” It’s a mantra that has rung around the internet and in conversation for a long time now. Every time a movie or tv show adaptation of a book or book series comes out, many potential viewers have already made up their minds that the book is or will be better than anything on screen.
And can that be true? Definitely. You only have to look at movies like Artemis Fowl or the Percy Jackson films to see proof of that. But is it ALWAYS the case that the book is better?
I don’t think so.
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A little while back our pal Royce posted about movies that have low critics scores but maybe deserve another look. It’s a great reminder that taste is subjective and individualistic, and there are probably a lot of examples you can think of where you really liked something but someone else didn’t.
I’m going to do a bit of a different take on the idea. Instead of looking at movies that can be watched a few different ways and people can come to different conclusions, since Royce did such a great job with that, I’m going to go with a very elusive subgenre of film; so bad it’s good.
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