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The Definitive Scary Scenes from Non-Horror Films: 50-41

In the spirit of October, this list will look at scary scenes, but not from the horror classics directed by Craven or Carpenter or even Hitchcock (I’m excluding him, though I argue most of his work isn’t exactly horror). These are from the films that aren’t really meant to scare you. At least, not at …

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2001: A Directorial Oddity – Soderbergh, Shyamalan, and Richard Kelly 12 Years Later

Hollywood history always makes for fascinating reading. Hindsight and whatnot. During a month in which Sound on Sight takes an opportunity to tip a collective hat in the direction of recently ‘retired’ workhorse auteur Steven Soderbergh, there is a further chance to reel back the years and examine a period of time when one of …

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The Man Who Heard Voices: A Look At M. Night Shyamalan

*There are spoilers in this article* It’s not often that a filmmaker comes along and makes the kind of impression that M. Night Shyamalan did in 1999, with his first major motion picture The Sixth Sense. The film grossed over six hundred million dollars globally and went on to garner six Academy Award nominations (including …

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The 100 Best Films of the Decade: 2000 – 2009 (part 6)

Before I get to number 49 I feel the need to list fifty honorable mentions. This is a very personal list and I am confident that I could have easily chosen 100 foreign language films or 100 independent art house films and skipped out on all the Hollywood flicks, but I decided to go with …

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