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The Most Unintentionally Terrifying “Love Songs” Ever Written
From Van Halen to Dean Martin, some of the world's most beloved "love" songs are actually hideously sinister when you dig just below the surface.
Trapped in the Negative Zone: The Fantastic Four on Film
The dust has cleared on the fourth attempt to bring The Fantastic Four to the big screen. Why is this team of comic characters so important? What keeps going so horribly wrong?
Building the Perfect Bomb: The Numbers Behind Box Office Flops
The biggest "box office bombs" of all time, much like the biggest hits, are not always the ones you're expecting them to be.
Hollywood Creative Accounting, or How to Hide a Hit and Still Profit From It
From Batsuits to Lawsuits, Hollywood Studios have a long history of hiding profits to claim that enormous hits were actually flops. How do they do this, and why?
Deconstructing the Star Beast: How the ‘Alien’ Saga Went Wrong
Alien was a planned B-Movie that transcended its genre and spawned the rare sequel that is neither imitation nor complete deviation. Then the saga went to hell.
Great Movies With Terrible Sequels: Sequels so Bad They’re Scary
Sometimes the most successful and acclaimed films are marked and marred by the absolutely worst sequels imaginable.
Sequels, Monsters, Robots, Heroes and Apes (Oh My!): Year Two of ‘The Next Reel’
What does Tom Petty think of Cylons? What does the Polar Bear from LOST know about CPR? Why does everyone think this author is a produce clerk?
Origin of the Species: ‘Planet of the Apes’ from Laughing Stock to Box Office Gold
After the best-selling novel La Planète des Singes and the hit film Planet of the Apes, the series found itself in hairy times. How did the saga regain its glory?