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A Nightmare on Elm Street 4K 7-Film Collection Unboxing and Review

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The NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET collection has finally arrived on 4K courtesy of Warner Bros! However, my experience with this release is a mixed bag. Check out my review for the full story. Order your copy here: https://amzn.to/46Up58i **************************************************************** Become a Member and unlock exclusive and ad free videos, early access, and much more at Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight or through YouTube Memberships at  https://www.youtube.com/@CerealAtMidnight/membership **************************************************************** Commentaries:  https://www.cerealatmidnight.com/p/commentaries.html **************************************************************** Need collecting storage solutions? Use code CAM15 to save 15% on your order at  https://bit.ly/t3lshopCAM  and see how it works here:  https://youtu.be/GX0fTq_VYs4 **************************************************************** When shopping on Amazon, please use Cereal At ...

Paperback Paradise: Freddy, Aliens, and Hells Angels

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In this video, we look at some recent paperback acquisitions! It's an eclectic bunch of books, covering the sci-fi horror franchise Aliens, the Nightmare on Elm Street series, and even the Hells Angels. Crash on the couch for a few minutes and take a trip to Paperback Paradise!

Icons of Horror: Slashers

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In this video, the first of a series about the icons of horror, we'll be talking about slashers! Characters like Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, and Chucky are household names and true slasher icons. We'll be taking a look at their films, as well as a few surprises as we talk about the titans of slasher horror.

Horror Remakes and a Tale of Two Fogs

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I just sat down and re-watched the 2005 remake of John Carpenter's 1980 classic The Fog . I had seen it when it was new, which I guess makes sense, since I was in my mid-twenties back in 2005 and pretty much the entire cast was also of a similar age at the time. You could even argue that the movie was tailor made for me: it stars Tom Welling, whom I really enjoyed on Smallville, Maggie Grace, who I watched on Lost, and Selma Blair, who was--and still is--reason enough to watch any movie. So by starring actors I was interested in and who were also close to my own age, The Fog  felt current. And yet that movie failed to make much of an impression on me in 2005, so much so that my memory of it since then has been that's it's okay, but really just "meh." But in the years since I saw the remake, I did see (and subsequently fell in love with) John Carpenter's original. Furthermore, John Carpenter has gone from a director whose films I knew and thought I apprecia...

Mummy Mania #6: Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

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This is what rock bottom looks like.

Mummy Mania #1: The Mummy (1932)

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A new Mummy movie is looming from Universal with promises (threats?) that it's the first of a new shared universe (a "Dark Universe," if you will) that will revive all their classic monsters for modern popcorn munchers. Because the marketing machine is in full swing, all the previous Mummy movies have just been re-released, with some of them restored in HD for the first time.What better excuse to binge on classic horror? In this inaugural installment, we're looking at the film that started it all: 1932's The Mummy .