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Cabin Fever (2016)

Review by CJ

Director:
Travis Z

Starring:
Gage Golightly, Matthew Daddario, Samuel Davis, Nadine Crocker, Dustin Ingram

Running time:
99 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Cabin Fever (2002), Evil Dead (2013)

 

Five friends go on a holiday to a cabin in remote woods where, after a chance encounter with a hermit, one of them contracts a tenacious flesh-eating virus. With no help nearby and their car out of order, can the other four survive or will they themselves catch the cabin fever?

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Huntress Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff (2015)

Review by CJ

Page count:
369

Format:
Kindle eBook

ASIN:
B00NKTTDH4 

 

When FBI Special Agent Matthew Roarke witnesses one of his undercover agents killed in what appears to be a freak accident, it opens the door to an investigation as bizarre as it is obscure — a female serial killer whose past intwines with Roarke’s own.

Huntress Moon is the first book in the The Huntress/FBI Thrillers series.

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Krampus (2015)

Review by CJ

Director:
Michael Dougherty

Starring:
Emjay Anthony, Adam Scott, Toni Collette, Allison Tolman, David Koechner, Krista Stadler, Conchata Ferrell

Other notable appearances:
Stefania LaVie Owen, Luke Hawker

Running time:
98 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Gremlins, Home Alone with more blood, Tales from the Crypt

 

Sick of his family and the way they treat each other around Christmas, Max (Anthony) tears up his letter to Santa asking for them to be happy and inadvertently summons the Anti-Clause.

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Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015)

Review by CJ

Director:
Christopher Landon

Starring:
Tye Sheridan, Logan Miller, Joey Morgan, Sarah Dumont, Halston Sage

Other notable appearances:
Blake Anderson, David Koechner, Cloris Leachman, Patrick Schwarzenegger

Running time:
93 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Shaun of the Dead, Evil Dead, The Babysitter

 

When the zombie apocalypse is caused by a hapless janitor, three scouts must use all of their skills if they are to save the day.

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Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King (2017)

Review by CJ

Page count:
718 [including Authors’ Note]

Format:
Hardcover

ISBN:
978-1-473-66519-4

 

The women of the world are falling asleep and not waking up. Instead they grow a cocoon and fly into a zombie-like rage, killing anyone who tries to remove the wrapping.

There is one woman though who can awaken after sleep. It falls to the men of Dooling, West Virginia to work out what answers this Evie Black may hold to awaken their sleeping beauties.

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