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Zoombies (2016)

Review by CJ

Director:
Glenn R. Miller

Starring:
Kim Nielsen, Ione Butler, Andrew Asper, Marcus Anderson, Brianna Joy Chomer, Aaron Groben, LaLa Nestor

Running time:
87 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Sharknado, Zombeavers

 

Animals in a wildlife sanctuary are overcome with a deadly virus that causes them to rise from the dead with a hunger for human flesh. It is up to park manager Ellen (Nielsen) and new security guard Lizzy (Butler) to save the park’s employees and interns.

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American Poltergeist (2015)

Review by CJ

Director:
Mike Rutkowski

Starring:
Donna Spangler, Ashley Green Elizabeth, Jaime Sarchet, Luke Brandon Field, Nikole Howell, Jakob Renken

Other notable appearances:
Nicole Holland, Nicholas Talone

Running time:
93 minutes

Watch this if you like:
Unintentionally bad horror films

 

A group of unwitting teenagers move into the house where the Borden murders took place. Mayhem ensues.

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I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016)

Review by CJ

Director:
Oz Perkins

Starring:
Ruth Wilson, Paul Prentiss, Lucy Boynton

Other notable appearances:
Bob Balaban, Brad Milne

Running time:
18 days (okay, IMDb says it was actually 87 minutes)

Watch this if you like:
Being so bored that it aches

 

Lily (Wilson) is a hospice nurse who comes to live with elderly horror writer Iris Blum (Prentiss) in her haunted house.

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When A Stranger Calls (2006)

Review by CJ

Director:
Simon West

Starring:
Camilla Belle, Tommy Flanagan, Lance Henriksen

Other notable appearances:
Katie Cassidy, Tessa Thompson, Clark Gregg, David Denman, Dianna Agron

Running time:
87 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Halloween, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Orphan

 

Jill Johnson (Belle) has been made to take a babysitting job at a large, isolated house as punishment for overusing her mobile phone. While there, Jill starts to receive menacing phone calls from an unknown caller who is about to make themselves very known.

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Odd Thomas (2013)

Review by CJ

Director:
Stephen Sommers

Starring:
Anton Yelchin, Addison Timlin, Willem Dafoe

Other notable appearances:
Patton Oswalt

Running time:
97 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Supernatural, Stir of Echoes, The Frighteners, Fright Night

 

Odd Thomas (Yelchin) is a short-order cook by day and a psychic by … well, all of the time. With the help, guidance and encouragement of his girlfriend Stormy (Timlin) and friend, police chief Wyatt Porter (Dafoe), Odd helps spirits seek peace so they can cross over.

When a horde of bodachs — spirits drawn to oncoming mayhem and carnage — descends on Odd’s quiet town, it’s up to Odd to figure out what is going to happen and stop it.

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