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The Shudder Pick of the Month is the Wonderfully Insane Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

Michael Myers returns (again) in a wonderfully terrible stinker with a crazed performance by Donald Pleasance as an utterly unhinged Dr. Loomis.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinSeptember 3, 2025Halloween, Film, horror, sequel, Danielle Harris, camp

My Shudder Pick of the Month is Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Michael Meyers is back, baby! That’s not cause for excitement, I’m afraid, on account of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Meyers sucking.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 28, 2025Halloween, Film, Sequel

The Random Rerun of the Day is the Nicolas Cage Top Gun Knock Off Firebirds

In 1990 Nicolas Cage made Firebirds, the first of several thousand forgettable action vehicles unworthy of his talent or originality.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage Project, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinAugust 18, 2025Nicolas Cage, Film, Tommy Lee Jones

The Random Rerun of the Day is the Half-Forgotten 2001 Thriller Domestic Disturbance

It’s Psycho Versus Psychlo in the cinematic war of the millennium!

Thanks to Sinners and The Minecraft Movie, Cinema is Back, Baby!

Cinema is back, baby! We have two very different movies to thank.

The Upcoming Clueless Series Gives Me an Excuse to Run This Very Silly Clickbait Piece About Alicia Silverstone

We never should have even thought about writing this article.

ClickbaitNathan RabinApril 17, 2025Alicia Silverstone, Clueless, Film

The Looming Great Depression Makes the Terrific, Economic Downturn-based 2019 Dark Comedy Hustlers Almost Too Real and Relatable

We’re headed For hard times, which makes the recession-fueled 2019 hit Hustlers, featuring a career-best performance from Jennifer Lopez, painfully relatable.

My Shudder Pick of the Month is the Stephen King-Approved The Rule of Jenny Pen, a Compelling Look at the Horror of Aging With Great Turns from John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush

For my Shudder pick of the month, I watched a compelling New Zealand horror movie about the agony of old age, with terrific performances by Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow as a lunatic who does sick things with the titular baby doll puppet.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 31, 2025John Lithgow, Geoffrey Rush, horror, nursing home, Film, New Zealand

The Controversial 1989 Shocker The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover Gives New Meaning to the Phrase "Eat a dick"

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 26, 2025Helen Mirren, Michael Chabon, Peter Greenaway, Film

Wings Hauser's Death Gives Me Yet Another Reason to Rerun this piece on 1993's Champagne and Bullets, the Craziest Movie You've Never Heard Of!

One of you wonderful weirdoes paid me to see Champagne and Bullets, an amazing piece of outsider art that suggests Tommy Wiseau remaking Cobra with plenty of Manos: The Hands of God and Miami Connection thrown in for good measure.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 22, 2025Film, Cult, Wings Hauser, William Smith