WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Return to Silent Hill. The Silent Hill franchise is not known to be particularly romantic. Based on Konami’s 1999 survival horror game, Christophe Gans’ 2006 film is a post-apocalyptic nightmare in which a frightened mother wanders a monster-filled netherworld, desperate to find her adopted daughter. An oft-forgotten 2012 […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Jacob’s Ladder and Return to Silent Hill. On the surface, Jacob’s Ladder and the world of Silent Hill have very little in common. One is a psychological horror film about a Vietnam veteran struggling to adjust to life after war, while another is a post-apocalyptic survival horror video […]
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On July 13, 1966, Richard Speck broke into a Chicago student nurse’s dormitory and murdered eight of the women who lived inside. Only Corazon Amurao managed to survive the ordeal by hiding under a bed long enough for the intruder to forget about her. Speck was arrested several days later and eventually given the death […]
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Of the many monsters roaming the ashen realm of Silent Hill, one stands head and shoulders above the rest. Christophe Gans’ 2006 adaptation recreates the terrifying spectres found in Konami’s survival horror game, from faceless mutant nurses and cockroaches with strangely humanoid heads to the rotting corpse of a sexual predator bound with rusty barbed […]
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“Oh, Finney. You of all people know that “dead” is just a word.” What’s scarier than a sinister magician/serial child from the Stranger Danger 70s driving through town in a windowless van filled with a bunch of black balloons? Nothing. Except perhaps the same sinister magician as a rotting corpse seeking vengeance in the realm […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Stranger Things, It, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, and Game of Thrones. In the end, Stranger Things remained what it has always been, a love letter to outcasts and fans of genre fiction. The show that once ignited Easter egg obsessives with a The Thing poster hanging in […]
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“You followed a step-by-step plan that killed nine people. What did you think was going to happen?” Never underestimate a hyperfixation. That obscure historical event or random theory that takes up space in our brains and keeps us from focusing on more important things. But sometimes those hyperfixations spin out of control and put our […]
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WARNING: The Following contains major spoilers for It: Welcome to Derry episode eight. After seven thrilling episodes, It: Welcome to Derry concludes its inaugural season with “Winter Fire,” a powerhouse finale that effectively wraps up the town’s 1962 cycle of death and destruction while peppering in shrewd connections to Stephen King’s larger body of work. With Pennywise […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for It: Welcome to Derry. Horror fans love a killer clown. HBO’s It: Welcome to Derry has taken the world by storm with a deft blend of heartstopping terror and comforting nostalgia surrounding a solid emotional core. Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Bill Skarsgård) returns to terrorize the children of […]
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WARNING: The Following contains major spoilers for It: Welcome to Derry episode six. As we near the first season finale of It: Welcome to Derry, classic references to Stephen King’s 1986 novel abound. Episode 6, “In the Name of the Father,” sees the 1962 version of the Losers’ Club begin to solidify, placing these likeable characters […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Stranger Things 5: Volume I. Stranger Things has always existed as a child of two worlds. Netflix’s nostalgic adventure series effortlessly straddles genre lines while referencing beloved sci-fi, horror, and fantasy texts. Emerging from a deft blend of 80s adventure films and vintage Stephen King novels, each installment […]
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On Saturday, June 23, 2018, twelve young members of the “Wild Boars” soccer team and their coach became trapped in the rapidly flooding Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand. As part of a global rescue mission, a team of elite cave rescue divers was able to locate the stranded team two and a half miles […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Stranger Things seasons 1-4. Is Stranger Things horror or science fiction? Heavily indebted to Stephen King yet built on ’80s adventure films, Netflix’s popular throwback series manages to blur genre lines while remaining palatable for younger audiences. We first meet the series’ central Party immersed in a rousing […]
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WARNING: The Following contains major spoilers for It: Welcome to Derry episode five. As promised in last week’s installment of It: Welcome to Derry, episode five, “29 Neibolt Street,” not only takes us inside the notorious house, but also into the sewers below. Though Hallorann (Chris Chalk) and team may arrive via the house’s namesake […]
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“Seventeen and you can’t stop me! Seventeen and you won’t boss me! You cannot control me, father! Daddy’s girl’s a fucking monster!” The teenage years are hard. With hormones raging, you’re still very much a child but expected to make important decisions about the rest of your life. It’s even more difficult in a futuristic […]
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