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Friday the 13th Collection Deluxe Edition from Scream Factory - Unfiltered Thoughts

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It's not an unboxing, but we've got a lot to say about the new Friday the 13th box set from Scream Factory! Heath gives his unfiltered opinion about his love for Jason and his favorite horror franchise, the many DVDs and Blu-rays that exist for these films, and what we think about this new DELUXE box set collection! Pick up your own copy of the Friday the 13th Collection Deluxe Edition HERE and support Cereal At Midnight!

Never Hike Alone - An Epic Friday the 13th Fan Film (Jason Voorhees)

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Never Hike Alone is an epic Friday the 13th fan film! In fact, it's so good that calling it a fan film doesn't do it justice; it's just an amazing Friday the 13th movie! In this video, we discuss the project, how you can see it for free AND add it to your Blu-ray collection, and how you can contribute to the prequel, Never Hike in the Snow ! Jason Voorhees lives, thanks to Vincente Disanti and the Womp Stop Films crew!

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...

Why VHS Is STILL A Thing (And Hopefully Always Will Be)

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Pour a bowl of C-3PO's cereal, put on your favorite John Carpenter synthesizer score, and dust of the VCR, because we're going analog.

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 .