CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2022: THE THIRD SATURDAY IN OCTOBER I & V

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by Justin Lore

As a child who was turning into a fan of horror films, one of the sweetest experiences was going to West Coast Video on Washington St on a Friday night and browsing the horror section. This was always a strange and magical experience for me. I’d look at the cover art and try to imagine what the movie was about, because the summary on the back was often little more than adjectives for “scary” and “gross” heaped on top of one another. I often judged a movie by its cover and title. Sometimes this was a miss (looking at you, Bergman, with your deceptively titled Serpent’s Egg) but other other times it was a grand slam (thank you Charles Band for the insane glory of Seed People). But a phenomenon that isn’t talked about, but I absolutely remembered is when a store would have random sequels to a film but not the original, or even any other entries besides part four or something.

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