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A full Free Movie of the Day is posted on the JoBlo Horror Movies YouTube channel every day of the week – but on Fridays things get even freakier and a little more fun. Get your weekend started the right way by indulging in Friday Fright Nights! Every Friday, we’ll be taking a look at another genre movie you can watch in its entirety, free of charge, either on the YouTube channel linked above or in the video embed here.

This week’s Friday Fright Nights feature is the witchcraft horror movie Incantation, which was written and directed by Eric Gibson… and which brought to mind something Stephen King mentioned in his book Danse Macabre. King suggested that the 1979 classic The Amityville Horror works as well as it does because of its subtext of economic unease. He jokingly said the movie could have been subtitled The Horror of the Shrinking Bank Account.

For a large segment of the audience anticipating “Paper Towns”, one review isn’t going to matter much. Author John Green wrote the young adult novel on which it is based four years before “The Fault in Our Stars,” his breakout hit. Both properties have passionate, young fanbases that will likely forgive whatever problems the movie has just to see their favorite characters on screen. While Shailene Woodley’s incredible performance may have driven those viewers to tears in the big screen version of “Fault” I'm not so sure they will be as enamored with the offering this time around. As in the novel, “Towns” begins with a flashback to a young Quentin (Josiah Cerio) smitten over the arrival of his new neighbor Margo (Hannah Alligood). The two elementary school age kids quickly become fast friends. She’s the adventurous type while he’s more conservative. Quentin’s memories of their early days,...