Sometimes I wish I had been alive when The Twilight Zone was first airing on TV. Sure, many people my age spent more than a few holiday weekends marathoning episodes of Rod Serling’s groundbreaking program but can you imagine what it actually would have been like to have that show as a weekly event? To not...
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I’ve been referred to by more than a few of my friends as a ‘King apologist’. I’m the guy who defends his weaker stories, the guy who insists that Under the Dome had no narrative problems, that Rose Madder makes perfect sense, that Doctor Sleep was a perfect sequel to The Shining, and that UR, his novella about a haunted kindle, was...
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It’s much easier to explain what makes a movie bad than what makes a movie good. This is common knowledge. Any idiot can say that Transformers 4 is an ‘overlong, clunky, piece of shit’ or that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a ‘cynical cash grab’ and back it up with evidence. It’s much more difficult to say...
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It’s been a depressing couple of weeks. Everything going on in Ferguson is a nightmare that I can’t even begin to wrap my brain around and we’ve learned that Bill Cosby is a despicably evil monster (for a much more in depth take on that whole disgusting mess, check out Noah’s brilliant piece). But...
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I don’t scare easily. When you watch as many horror movies as I do, you become numb to a lot of the most common scare tactics. You always know when something is going to jump out from behind a corner, you can tell when the killer is going to strike, and you wait for...
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Universal Studios has been talking up their plan to create a shared universe, ala Marvel, with all their classic monsters for a while now. They’ve stated that Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, The Wolfman, The Mummy, The Invisible Man and maybe even Gill-man will all be sharing the screen in some capacity. I didn’t think this...
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If you frequent any entertainment websites, you’ve undoubtedly stumbled across an article on Serial, the true crime podcast that, if you’ll forgive the cliche, everyone is talking about. You probably gave the article a cursory look, discovered it was about a podcast and concluded that you don’t have time for such things. You’re already three...
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Yesterday it was announced that Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell are finally resurrecting the horror genre’s most bumbling and idiotic hero. Fans of The Evil Dead franchise have been clamoring for Ash’s return for years and Raimi and Campbell kept promising we hadn’t seen the last of him. How would they bring him back was...
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Perhaps it’s just the fact that so many American shows (cough…cough…Gotham) are utter shit-garbage but it seems to me that most British shows are a lot more interesting than much of what we have to offer. Granted, this could easily be because we only hear of the great British TV programs. They probably have...
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Everything about Horns is broad: the comedy, the horror, the acting, the suspense, the romance, and the gore. It works far too hard to please, playing to the rafters when it should be more focused on the people in the front row. All the elements are in place for a great genre bending movie but each element...
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