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“Yellowjackets” – Visual Effects Artist Marshall Richard Krasser on Creating the Show’s Cold and Cannibalistic World [Interview]

June 15, 2023 Jenn Adams Exclusives, Interviews, Marshall Richard Krasser, TV, Yellowjackets

The following contains major spoilers for Season 2 of Yellowjackets. With a thrilling sophomore season, Showtime’s Yeliowjackets has cemented its place among the year’s best television. Picking up two months after Jackie’s (Ella Purnell) devastating death, the show’s 90s timeline reunites us with the stranded soccer players now struggling to survive in the dead of […]

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‘The Boogeyman’: Does the Monster in the Dark Still Scare Us? [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

June 9, 2023 Jenn Adams Podcasts, Rob Savage, Stephen King, The Boogeyman

In the March 1973 issue of Cavalier, Stephen King terrified grown men across the world with sordid short story “The Boogeyman”. The harrowing tale would eventually be collected into his first short story collection, 1978’s Night Shift. Now, 30 years after first being published, the story is haunting theaters nationwide with Rob Savage‘s feature film […]

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‘The Mangler’ Revisited: Tobe Hooper, Stephen King and Robert Englund’s Sinister Fairytale

June 6, 2023 Jenn Adams Editorials, Movies, Robert Englund, Robert Englund Day, Stephen King, The Mangler, Tobe Hooper

Stephen King’s short story “The Mangler” really shouldn’t work as well as it does. The fifth tale in his first collection, Night Shift, follows an industrial laundry press that somehow becomes possessed by a demon and begins flattening laundry workers like king-sized sheets. First published in a 1972 issue of Cavalier, the story contains the […]

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‘The Boogeyman’ – Comparing Rob Savage’s Horror Movie to Stephen King’s Horror Story

June 5, 2023 Jenn Adams Editorials, Movies, Page to Screen, Rob Savage, Stephen King, The Boogeyman

The following contains major spoilers for The Boogeyman (2023). Early Stephen King short stories have a particular kind of grit. Often called Vintage King, the twenty dark tales in the author’s first collection, Night Shift, vary wildly in subject matter and tone but nearly all convey a distinct nihilism and end with a shocking stinger […]

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‘The Boogeyman’ – Why the Original Short Story Is Stephen King Horror At Its Finest

May 31, 2023 Jenn Adams Books, Movies, night shift, Stephen King, The Boogeyman

Like many Stephen King fans, I found the Master of Horror as a child. I grew up staring in awe at my dad’s paperbacks lining a high shelf and pondered the haunting images emblazoned on their spines: a hand covered with eyes and bandages (Night Shift); green claws poking through a sewer grate (It); a […]

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Stephen King Takes a Rare Dip Into Aquatic Horror With ‘Duma Key’ [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

May 26, 2023 Jenn Adams Duma Key, news, Stephen King

“…the only way to go on is to go on. To say I can do this even when you know you can’t.” Summer is here and the Losers are ready to get away from it all on a remote beach in the Florida Keys. They’ve packed up Reba the Anger Management Doll, bought a pack […]

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My Best Friend Is a Psychopath – Why Misty Quigley Is the Best Character on “Yellowjackets”

May 25, 2023 Jenn Adams Christina Ricci, Editorials, Samantha Hanratty, Showtime, TV, Yellowjackets

The following contains major spoilers for Season 2 of Yellowjackets. We’ve all got that friend. The one who tries a little too hard, smiles just a little too wide, and jumps at the chance to help you with the tiniest problem, sometimes even before you know you have it. The Misty Quigleys of the world […]

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“Yellowjackets” Fan? Here Are 10 Lesser Known Cannibal Films to Feast On

May 5, 2023 Jenn Adams Anthropophagous, Cannibal, Cannibals, Clown, Editorials, Hellhole, Movies, Pandorum, Parents, The Bad Batch, The Woman, Uncle Peckerhead, Yellowjackets

Cannibalism has emerged as the genre du jour in horror. With the success of last year’s Fresh and Bones and All as well as the second season of Yellowjackets finally digging into the human flesh, everyone seems to be exploring this taboo topic. From nightmare survival scenarios to narcissistic serial killers, these films follow humans […]

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‘Evil Dead’ (2013) vs. ‘Evil Dead Rise’ (2023): Which Film Is Gorier?

April 28, 2023 Jenn Adams Editorials, Evil Dead, Evil Dead Rise, featured, Fede Alvarez, Lee Cronin, Movies, topnews

The following contains major spoilers for Evil Dead (2013) and Evil Dead Rise (2023). Of the many horror franchises, few are as creatively violent as The Evil Dead. Sam Raimi’s 1981 original garnered an NC-17 rating for “substantial horror violence and gore” and Stephen King described the low-budget indie as “the most ferociously original horror […]

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We’re Dying to Hang Out With ‘You’re Killing Me’ Star McKaley Miller

April 8, 2023 Jenn Adams Anne Heche, Interviews, McKaley Miller, You're Killing Me

As summer draws near, many high school seniors find themselves faced with the hellish decision of what to do with their lives after graduation amidst the terrifying reality of college applications. Screenwriters Walker Hare and Brad Martocello explore this timeless nightmare for Beth Hanna and Jerren Lauder’s pulse-pounding new horror film You’re Killing Me. Prep […]

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‘Malum’ and ‘Last Shift’: Companion Films Forged in the Fires of Hell

April 6, 2023 Jenn Adams Editorials, Last Shift, Malum, Movies

The following contains major spoilers for Last Shift (2014) and Malum (2023). Nothing divides the horror community like a remake. For decades fans have debated the merits of cinematic retellings of our most beloved horror films with strong arguments on either side of the equation. The trend exploded in the early 2000s with Platinum Dunes […]

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How AMC’s “Mayfair Witches” Oversimplifies a Rich Story

March 21, 2023 Jenn Adams AMC, Anne Rice, Editorials, Mayfair Witches, TV

Anne Rice’s biggest claim to fame will always be “Interview With the Vampire” and the ensuing Vampire Chronicles. However, most casual horror fans don’t know that her impressive catalog also features a multigenerational saga about a family of witches. Beginning with “The Witching Hour,” Rice wrote a trilogy of novels following a matrilineal line of […]

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Corn Crazies: The 10 Strangest Moments in the ‘Children of the Corn’ Franchise

March 20, 2023 Jenn Adams Children Of The Corn, Editorials, featured, Movies, topnews

Forty-six years after publication, Stephen King’s Children of the Corn has become a B-horror institution. The short story, which first ran in a 1977 issue of Penthouse, follows a bickering couple who run afoul of a murderous cult of corn-worshiping children on a back road in Nebraska. A bleak example of horror in the daylight, the […]

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10 Great Characters from the ‘Scream’ Franchise We Would Totally Build a Shrine To

March 16, 2023 Jenn Adams Editorials, Movies, Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3, Scream 4, Scream VI

Few titles have redefined the horror genre like Scream. Wes Craven’s original film premiered in 1996 and promptly unleashed a wave of teen meta-slashers that would dominate the genre for the remainder of the decade. From the filmmaking collective Radio Silence, Scream VI manages to strike the perfect balance of homage to the past while […]

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Stephen King’s ‘Children of the Corn’ – Comparing the Short Story, Original Movie, and 2023 Remake

March 7, 2023 Jenn Adams Children Of The Corn, Editorials, Kurt Wimmer, Movies, Stephen King

Stephen King’s short story “The Children of the Corn” has been catnip to horror filmmakers for nearly fifty years. Originally published in the March 1977 issue of Penthouse, the tale of a quarreling couple who stumble onto a murderous cult of children in a Nebraska cornfield was included the following year in King’s first short […]

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