The Coldest Open
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Tom Holland's Fright Night (1985) is a stone cold classic with a tepid opening [The Coldest Open]
Eventually, Fright Night will give us some stellar vampire makeup effects. But first, we have to sit through an awkward (and decently uncomfortable) opening sequence
July 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Descent delves deep into human trauma from its first moments [The Coldest Open]
We may only be diving into the first 6 minutes of Marshall's cult classic, but what we find there is as deep as any cannibal-housing cave system
July 18, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The original I Know What You Did Last Summer movie turns your slasher expectations into roadkill [The Coldest Open]
As we approach the 30th anniversary of the Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. slasher classic (and a franchise reboot), Popverse is putting it in reverse to examine the OG film's opener
July 11, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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How Wes Craven's Scream sets the bar for horror movie openers [The Coldest Open]
The Drew Barrymore-starring opener to 1996's Scream not only kicked off a three-decade franchise; it perfected a piece of filmmaking a century in the works: the cold open
July 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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M3GAN eventually gets into a groove, but it starts out with no rhythm and not enough murderbot [The Coldest Open]
In honor of M3GAN 2.0 coming to theaters, we take a look at director Gerard Johnstone's first moments into his murderous AI saga
June 27, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Coldest Open: How Danny Boyle introduces an all new type of zombie (and an all type of new zombie movie) in 28 Days Later
Even before we meet Cillian Murphy's Jim or get a facefull of zombies that *can actually run,* Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland hook us for what's become the most innovative zombie movie of this century (so far)
June 20, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Coldest Open: Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th is un-campy camp horror with a killer score
In the first edition of The Coldest Open, where we judge the most infamous opening scenes of horror history, we're tackling the movie that introduces us to the Voorhees family
June 13, 2025
Grant DeArmitt