I love horror anthologies for the same reason I love horror short story collections: they provide a quick fix for a junkie. Horror fans like me have sat through so many movies, read so many novels, and sat through so many TV episodes that it’s nice to have a film that gives you five...
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Are we ever going to get tired of zombies? I keep waiting for us to reach our zombie threshold but it doesn’t seem to be anywhere in sight. The Walking Dead’s ratings are higher than ever, there’s a spinoff show on the way, and it seems like there’s a new zombie video game on the...
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The vampire is one of the most reliable movie creatures. What zombies, werewolves, and demons lack in personality, vampires more than make up for. They have style, charisma, and class even when giant fangs are protruding from their hideous mouths. Well, they did anyway until Twilight and True Blood came along and sanitized them. What those two pieces of...
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In 1978, a low budget horror movie called Halloween snuck its way into theaters and changed the face of the genre forever. It was the most successful independent film of all time when it came out, wound up on many critic’s best ten lists of that year, and is still considered one of the scariest...
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I read a lot of thrillers. They’re usually an easy read because they aren’t filled with deep, meaningful prose and the best ones move at a fast pace with surprising twists and turns. You can polish off a good thriller in a night or two. Frequently though, they are somewhat hollow at their core...
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Like everybody else in the world, I watch The Walking Dead but my relationship with the show has often been troubled. It’s like a friend who did something unforgiveable only to apologize and make up for it a few years later. I may accept him as my friend again, but I’ll always watch him...
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A couple weeks back I wrote a list of what I thought were some fairly obscure horror flicks to watch this Halloween as alternatives to the usual standards. However, a few people pointed out to me that they knew of or had seen many of the movies on that list. So, I’m back and...
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The ABC’s of Death 2 is a horror anthology of 26 short films by different directors. They were each given a letter of the alphabet, complete creative freedom, and about 3-5 minutes of screen time. Watching the film is like having 26 psychopaths tell you the craziest, most fucked up stories they can think...
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Annabelle is fucking terrible. It’d be the worst movie of the year if Leprechaun: Origins didn’t already hold that title. And yet every person whom I’ve shared this information with has said, “well I have to see it anyway.” No. No you don’t have to see it people!! YOUR LIVES ARE WORTH MORE!! I...
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Gone Girl works spectacularly well on a variety of levels: It’s a superb thriller, a darkly comic piece of pop culture entertainment, a savvy look at the utter insanity of the media, and a scathing criticism of what people have come to expect from marriage. Most importantly though, this is a movie about misogyny;...
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