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Wes Craven Gets Drunk and Writes a Touching Comedy

After being told he’s got a terminal medical condition, comedian George Simmons (Adam Sandler) takes a young boy named Fool (Brandon Adams) as they go to try out their new stand-up act in a comedy club run by an insane brother and sister (Everett McGill and Wendy Robie). As George comes to appreciate his life anew, he and Fool manage to save the kidnapped, captive comedians locked in the basement and reunite with the love of George’s life (Leslie Mann).

The Funny People Under the Stairs

Cheat sheet Funny People | The People Under the Stairs

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Teaching’s No Different From Hockey | Insert Blood-Drinking (and Communion) Reference Here

Here’s a glimpse of the trailer for Funny People, opening today.

Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Girl doesn't. Boy sucks the life out of everything.

An offbeat comedy vampire romance about unrequited love in the eternal damnation of preternatural immortality. A young bloodsucker, wintering in Alaska, meets a sweet native girl named Summer. They hit it off and spend many hours together just hanging out and getting really into each other... until she finds out his deep, dark secret: he is a bloodthirsty freak-of-the-ever-after. Also, she can't commit. Though she loves our hero, she is not 'in love' with him. He spends the rest of eternity wooing her through back streets and dark alleys in the nightlife of space and time, sucking all the joy out of everything.

500 Days of Night

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Paging Mr. Toaster. White Courtesy Telephone, Please. | Insert Blood-Drinking (and Communion) Reference Here

IKEA Guerilla Theater!

You Can’t Run Away From Your Past in a Glass House

Womanizing photographer Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) is invited to his brother Arthur’s (Tony Shalhoub) wedding in a glass house left to them by their crazy uncle Cyrus (F. Murray Abraham). The night before the wedding, it is revealed that the house is actually a complex machine powered by the ghosts of Connor’s ex-girlfriends designed to open a portal to hell and teach Connor how to be a truly caring man.

Thir13en Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Cheat sheet Thir13en Ghosts | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These The Power of the High-Top Fade | They’re thinking, “Duchovny thought his career would get better after this?”

I think it’s got series potential. Probably on the CW. Take a look at the trailer and see if you agree with me.

She Was Living Among The Strangers!

The carnival comes to town featuring a reunion tour of The Band (Robbie Robertson and... some other people). A young and sexy stripper (Jodie Foster) becomes obsessed with the traveling show and joins them, only to find they are a troupe of zombie undead hellbent on forcing her to play creepy organ hymnals that invoke flash floods to drown the unsuspecting victim audiences.

Carny Of Souls

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Aim for the Headmaster | Same as it Ever Was"

"Mysterious Mose", a 1930 Betty Boop animation by the Fleischer brothers about singing with ghosts.

Those Aren’t Pillows!

Horribly late for Thanksgiving, businessman Neal Page (Steve Martin) and shower curtain ring salesman Del Griffith (John Candy), through a series of hilarious mishaps, wind up trapped in a New Year’s Eve costume party being thrown on a train by a number of college students. A mad killer seeking vengeance has slipped onto the train, however, and as the bodies begin to pile up, Neal and Del must work with Alana Maxwell (scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis) and a creepy magician (David Copperfield) to uncover the horrible truth and learn to appreciate each other.

Planes, Terror Trains & Automobiles

Cheat sheet Planes, Trains & Automobiles | Terror Train

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Harvey Manfred… jen… sen… den: A Memoir | [Insert Dialogue Title] It Rubs the Lotion on its Skin

Did I say David Copperfield? Damn right I did! Check this out:

We’ll Talk About It in My Cell, Ma.

After being hypnotized, Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon) becomes haunted by a wacky pair of wrongly-convicted men looking for help (Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor). Aided by his clairvoyant son, Witzky manages to uncover the real bank robbers and stage a prison break during a rodeo.

Stir of Crazy Echoes

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Savage, Bloody, and Streepy | Man is in the Forest!

A few minutes of genius from Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. Enjoy.

It’s the Dead Guy, and He Has an Enormous Schwanzstucker!

Two young boys (Elijah Wood and Marty Feldman) fooling around in an old Bavarian castle accidentally revive a frozen monster (Peter Boyle)! Now, with the help of their mother (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder), they must help the monster avoid angry villagers and government agents intent on recapturing him, and reunite him with his lost love (Madeline Kahn).

Forever Young Frankenstein

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Is this a kissing story? | The Empire Strikes Payback

Gene Wilder and his reanimated buddy "trying hard to look like Gary Cooper..." Superduper!

Souvlaki, With a Side Order of Triffids

A travel guide strikes up a romance with her Greek bus driver as they escort a group of tourists around Greece. But her happiness is short-lived when the tour group stumbles upon a nest of evil man-eating plants in a creepy ancient Greek temple, and everyone dies horribly in searing pain.

My Life in the Ruins

Cheat sheet My Life in Ruins | The Ruins

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These You Can't Always Get What You Want | A Scarecrow has Black Eyes, Like a Doll's Eyes

My Life in Ruins opens today.

Something Evil Stalks the Bookshops of Stalingrad

A Russian sniper (Jude Law) teams up with a shady rare book dealer (Johnny Depp) to engage in a cat-and-mouse sniper hunt through war-torn Stalingrad, trying to thwart a pair of German snipers (Ed Harris and Frank Langella) on a quest for a book that has the power to summon the Devil (Rachel Weisz).

Enemy at the Ninth Gate

Cheat sheet Enemy at the Gates | The Ninth Gate

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Some people are bullfighters. Some people are politicians. I'm a photographer taking pictures of drug dealers in bad blond wigs. | Guns May Not Be the Best Weapons Against the Plague

The brutal opening scenes of Enemy at the Gate, complete with the least inspiring set of instructions you could ever hope to hear when running into battle.

The Story You’ve Just Seen is True. Only the Names Have Been Changed to Protect the Damned.

When LAPD Detectives Joe Friday (Dan Ackroyd) and Pep Streeback (Tom Hanks) evict an old gypsy woman from her home, they are cursed and must battle against the evil society People Against Goodness And Normalcy (P.A.G.A.N.) and their empire of pornography and drugs or forfeit their very souls to damnation.

Dragnet Me To Hell

Cheat sheet Dragnet | Drag Me To Hell

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These To Be or Not to Be, This is My Boomstick! | Whattya Want for Nothin’? Rubber Biscuit?

We welcome Sam Raimi back to directing horror with Drag Me to Hell, which opens tonight.

Until then, god bless the ‘80s. Where would we be without classic gems like this one?

That’s Some Literal Hellfire, Boys!

Trapped in a burning building awaiting rescue, Vietnam vet and seasoned firefighter Jacob Morrisson (Tim Robbins) relives his life through strangely distorted flashbacks of his career and family, interspersed with unexplained attacks by demonic creatures and conversations with his dead son. As he waits for someone to save him, he must begin to question whether he’s really still alive at all.

Jacob’s Ladder 49

Cheat sheet Jacob’s Ladder | Ladder 49

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These I See Costume Dramas | The Loons are Back… And They’re Carrying a Grudge

Enough doom and gloom! Here’s Huey Lewis and the News to help us rock out, ‘80s style!

Club de la Lune

A revealing documentary chronicles the latest trend in New York City drag clubs - young men dressing up as wolves for a night of trans-species vogueing.

An American Werewolf in Paris is Burning

Cheat sheet An American Werewolf in Paris | Paris is Burning

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Hey, Mes Loups-Garous, Let's Put on a Show | Psycho Killer, Qu'est-ce Que C'est?

A Perfect Organism. Its Structural Perfection is Matched Only By Its Ability to Talk Like Cliff Clavin on Cheers.

A secret government agency dedicated to child-power energy generation recruits a crack team of agents -blue ogre Sully, walking eyeball Mike, a Brobdingnagian Sigourney Weaver, and a cockroach with the body of Hugh Laurie - to combat an invading horde of acid-spewing extraterrestrials whose offspring burst out of people's stomachs.

Monsters, Inc. vs Aliens

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These You Look Like Ilsa, Only Animated and With No Legs | Living Buy'n'Large

Why? WHY?!?!?

Wanderer and Vietnam war veteran John “Lancelot” Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) runs afoul of King Arthur (Sean Connery) in a small town in the kingdom of Camelot, resulting in a chase through the woods. Seeking revenge, Lancelot sneaks back into town wearing a mask and wreaks havoc at the prom attended by King Arthur’s young queen, Guinevere (Jamie Lee Curtis). Falling in love with Guinevere, Lancelot surrenders to the officials and destroys Camelot by seducing its queen.

First Bloody Prom Knight

Cheat sheet First Blood | First Knight | Prom Night

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Do We Get To Win This Time, Jiminy Cricket? | Why Ain’t You Dead?

Is First Knight the greatest movie ever made? You be the judge!

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Who Can Trust a Cop Who Don’t Do Voodoo?

Frank Serpico (Al Pacino) is the only straight cop in Haiti, doing what he can against the corruption of the Tonton Macoute, distrusted by the others in his precinct. When he’s finally moved to his dream job in Narcotics, he finds that the corruption and the practice of voodoo runs even deeper than in other units. During a raid on a drug lab, he winds up zombified by one of Papa Doc Duvalier’s men, but recovers from that to testify against the corruption on the force and discover a new anesthetic for modern medicine. 

The Serpico and the Rainbow

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Take Your Best Shot… ‘Cause It Might Be Your Last! | Did You Come Six Times, or Only Five?

Check out the zombie poison, buried alive scene from the Serpent and the Rainbow. Watch for Christophe’s mad zombie digging skills at about 5:10.

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Leapin' Lepus!

Two brothers, one a hapless inventor and the other a dog without a mouth, compete fiercely with each other on the soccer field, but later forget their differences to team up against a lycanthropic lagomorph.

Rudo y Cursi of the Were-Rabbit

Cheat sheet Rudo y Cursi | Wallace & Grommit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Take a Chance on Me | Love is a Force of Nature (And So Is Gravity)

Trailer oficiel de Rudo y Cursi.

Speaking of soccer, and to demonstrate that the movies in this mash-up aren't actually unrelated, here's a brilliant bit from the creators of Wallace & Grommit.

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Aim for the Headmaster!

English professor John Keating teaches poetry and the latest techniques in zombie-slaying. He inspires his students to seize the day -- because the night belongs to the walking dead.

Night of the Living Dead Poets Society

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These To Be or Not To Be, This is My Boomstick! | Paul is Undead

Things That Go SNIKKKT! in the Night

On the night of a full moon, young Michael J. Fox is bitten by a rabid Hugh Jackman. As a result, he is cursed to transform every month into a surly mutant with spring-loaded metal claws.

Teen Wolverine

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Hey Mes Loups-Garous! Let's Put on a Show! | A Thermodynamic Miracle

X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the latest comic-generated blockbuster starring Hugh Jackman's naked chest, opens tonight. It promises to be quite the manfest, with testosterone for all tastes: Jackman, of course, as well as Dom Monaghan, Liev Schreiber, Will i Am, Kevin Durand, Daniel Henney, Ryan Reynolds, and the congenitally smoldering Taylor Kitsch (of Friday Night Lights) as Gambit.

You Look Like Ilsa, Only Animated and With No Legs

A young French space explorer (Jack Nicholson) is rescued by a cartoon alien with really big eyes who bears a startling resemblance to the long-dead wife of an elderly Baron (Boris Karloff).

Battle For The Terror

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These I'm the King of the Universe! | What would you say... you do here?

The politically complex and stunningly rendered new animated film from Canada, Battle for Terra, may make the Pixar guys a little nervous. It opens tonight.

Your Worst Nightmare

Two hapless frieght handlers (Abbott and Costello) meet their girlfriends' parents before proposing, only to find that the girls' father (Robert De Niro) is an angry reanimated creature made of corpse parts.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Parents

Cheat sheet Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein | Meet the Parents

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Is this a kissing story? | Fools on the Hill

This makes twice Robert DeNiro has played the tragic corpse-based villain from Mary Shelley's novel. Rumor has it, he's so method he had his brain replaced in preparation for the role.

Is That a Meteorite in Your Pocket, or are You Just Happy to See Me?

Mystic warrior Son Goku (David Duchovny) must collect the Seven Dragon Balls to save the world from rapidly-mutating monsters from space. With Julianne Moore as Bulma.

Dragon Ball: Evolution

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These They’re Thinking, “Duchovny Thought His Career Would Get Better After This?” | Finish Him! 

Dude, is that really Chow Yun-Fat?

I've Got You Under My Skin

Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious parasite that transforms its still living victims into deadly hosts, King Henry II considers who should be heir to his throne. Will he decide before the Splinter takes over his mind and body?

The Lion in Splinter

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These "Some of our best friends are..." | Once more unto the breach(es), dear friends!

Hey, mes Loups-Garous! Let's put on a show!

In 1936, in the run-down Faubourg neighborhood of Paris, an American man unwittingly gets involved with werewolves who have developed a serum allowing them to perform community theater musicals.

An American Werewolf in Paris 36

Cheat sheet An American Werewolf in Paris | Paris 36 (Faubourg 36)

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These His Hair Was Perfect (And Also Silent) | Yow! Adrian!

Paris 36 opens tonight in limited release.

Thanksgiving at the TomKats'

A wayward daughter (Katie Holmes) invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner. They soon discover that each has a hidden secret... which is revealed just before each turns up horribly murdered by a mysterious slasher (who may or may not be Tom Cruise).

Pieces of April Fool's Day

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These I Like to Watch | OMG TLA! BFFs? Yah, rätt!

And from our friends at the Grindhouse, another Thanksgiving classic: white meat, dark meat - all will be carved!

Cold Feet

Short people with large, hairy feet traveling in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting orc that assumes the appearance of the people it kills. Led by a trigger-happy elf with a strange resemblance to Snake Plissken, our hobbit heroes must protect their minds and bodies from the beast while also singing battle songs and returning a mysterious and dangerous artifact to its icy home.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Thing

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These This Thing Called Love | The Chinaman is Not the Issue! 

If you haven't seen The Thing, go rent it now.