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July 24, 2015
On July 19, 1985 the darkest day of horror the world has ever known came to pass. That day saw…
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July 2, 2015
George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead turns 30 this July. As the third installment in the series that invented zombies…
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May 26, 2015
American Horror Story's frightening Morbidity Museum is a true-life horror.
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May 18, 2015
Does it irritate anyone else when, during the first 15 minutes of a movie, you already know where it’s going,…
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May 11, 2015
When exactly did the US market lose the fight against foreign movies? Was the US ever king in the first…
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May 4, 2015
Before I get started, let me preface this and warn people that my opinions on the horror genre in no…
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December 24, 2014
After Silent Night, Deadly Night: Part 2 failed to garner even half the reaction that the original film did, the…
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December 23, 2014
At the end of Silent Night, Deadly Night, young Ricky inherits a Chapman family heirloom: the blood-soaked axe that his…
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December 22, 2014
By the time 1984 rolled around, the sanctity of Jesus’ birth had already been more than tarnished in horror cinema,…
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November 25, 2014
For several years following her untimely death in 1990, Forrest J Ackerman commemorated his late wife Wendayne’s life annually with…
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October 27, 2014
In 2004 writer/director James Wan absolutely exploded on the horror scene when he unleashed Saw on unsuspecting audiences worldwide. And…
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October 23, 2014
Fans of Charles B. Pierce’s 1976 shocker The Town That Dreaded Sundown are no doubt curious to see how a…