Cracked Archive - Movies & TV
Why Loki Sucks As A Villain (And Keeps Getting Worse)
The Marvel Cinematic Universe's Loki is arguably the saddest example of the evil genius archetype.
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- By Spencer Thew
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126 6 Characters You Didn't Know Had Wild Origin Stories
Us nerds all have our favorite fictional characters we like to obsess about.
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- By Adam Wears
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- 93
We Need More Deaths In Marvel Movies (No, Seriously)
Death is a minor annoyance in any superhero universe. But we've reached a point where screenwriters don't even try to pretend these characters are mortal, and the characters themselves seem to know it.
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- By Markos Hasiotis, Tim Davis
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5 Horror Stories Cut From Your PG-13 History Books
Every now and then, history's horror stories are so over the top that they have to be left out of the classroom entirely.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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10 Backstage Photos That Make Scary Movies Look Hilarious
Learning how scary movies are made can ruin the horror for the viewer, turning previously terrifying moments into episodes of campy slapstick.
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- By JM McNab
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The Overarching Plot Of The 'Halloween' Movies Is Crazy AF
Allow us to guide you through the tangled ball of Christmas lights that is the Halloween series.
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- By JM McNab
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5 Real-Life Murderers More Terrifying Than Any Horror Movie
Serial killers in movies are all constrained by the same limitation: The imagination of a screenwriter, who is presumably not a murderous psychopath. No matter how disgusting or outright evil the fictional killer, there's somebody out there topping them in real life.
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- By Israel SH, Abraham Mireles, Zanandi Botes, Laura H, Michael Battaglino
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4 WTF Hypothetical Questions Raised By Horror Movies
Movie monsters always work with a strict set of rules.
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- By Chris Radomile
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5 Downsides To Being A Movie Monster Nobody Brings Up
As wild and sexy as werewolves are, the only thing you'd be able to do with them nowadays is put them out of their misery.
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- By Steven D Jackson
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6 Barely Noticeable Ways Movies And TV Messed With Your Head
Stanley Kubrick, mad man that he is, mapped out the Overlook to subconsciously mess with the audience's brains.
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- By Adam Wears
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7 Hilariously WTF Ways TV And Movies Dealt With Censorship
When you're trying to avoid showing a lesbian couple on TV, of course the obvious solution is to change their relationship to 'incestuous cousins.'
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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6 Movie Critics Whose Reviews Were Acts Of Pure WTF
Gene Siskel was unnecessarily doxxing people way before the basement-dwelling denizens of Reddit were.
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- By Isaac Cabe
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5 Insanely Topical Movie Lines (That Are Now Just Confusing)
Centuries from now, our grandchildren's grandchildren will be watching beautiful people erotically waterboard one another on the beach, and they'll have no clue where it came from.
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- By Rani Baker, Wes Corwin, James Kinneen, Dan Hopper
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6 Behind-The-Scenes Movie Pranks That Were Total Madness
Here's photographic evidence that the people making our favorite movies and TV shows are some goofy motherflippers.
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- By JM McNab
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6 Unnecessarily Horrifying Episodes Of Beloved Kids Shows
In the same way there's no shortage of horrifying moments in your actual childhood, there are a lot of creeptacular moments in the family friendly shows we used to watch.
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- By JM McNab
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