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Despite my avid fandom for the genre, I really feel that modern horror has lost its grasp on how to make a film that’s truly unsettling in the way the great classic horror films are. In many ways,The Addams Family 2 is the horror movie I’ve been restlessly waiting to see for so many years.

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