WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for The Running Man (2025). Could there be a better time for an adaptation of Stephen King’s The Running Man? Originally published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, this dystopian novella is not only set in 2025, but it also follows a world in which ultra-wealthy overlords control the masses […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for episode four of It: Welcome to Derry. As we near the midpoint of It: Welcome to Derry season one, the lore deepens and fan favorite characters begin coming together. Episode four, “The Great Swirling Apparatus of Our Planet’s Function,” not only provides an origin story for the titular […]
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“If you wanna be profound, if you really gotta justify, take a breath and look around, a lot of folks deserve to die!.” What would it take for women to rule the world? Would this unprecedented power come in the form of a female politician? Or perhaps the mysterious disappearance of all the earth’s men? […]
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On February 24th, 2019, Mallory Beach was killed while boating with her friends on the Beaufort River in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. Behind the wheel was Paul Murdaugh, the troubled young son of one of South Carolina’s most prominent families. For nearly 100 years, the Murdaughs had dominated the legal system in Hampton County, placing them […]
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“Are people born wicked? Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?” When most of us picture a wicked witch, the first image that often jumps to mind is a green woman with a hooked nose riding her broomstick into the night sky. Margaret Hamilton’s iconic Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 masterpiece […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. We’re all familiar with Frankenstein. Or at least we think we are. Each October, we’re inundated with the iconic image of Boris Karloff’s scared and oddly rectangular face, accompanied by the electric hair of Elsa Lanchester’s reanimated Bride. Most of us can recite the […]
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On August 21st, 1968, Antonio Lo Bianco and Barbara Locci were found shot to death on a rural lovers lane outside of Florence, Italy. This gruesome crime would prove to be the first in a series of eight double murders targeting couples canoodling in their cars throughout the Tuscan countryside. Eventually called the Monster […]
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“Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?” What does it mean to live deliciously? What is the cost of a pretty dress, a stick of butter, or any other treat our heart desires? Dare we allow ourselves to feel fleeting joy and must this always be considered a sin? As women, we’re taught to sacrifice our […]
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“The town knew darkness.” When most non-horror fans conjure up the image of a vampire, they picture Bram Stoker’s legendary Dracula sitting in his dusty Transylvanian castle flanked by his devilish vampiric brides. But Constant Readers invariably picture an erudite antiques dealer and his bald familiar lurking in the darkness of the Marsten house. Stephen […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for It, It: Chapter Two, and It: Welcome to Derry. The inaugural episode of It: Welcome to Derry introduced us to the sinister town via a lumbering, airborne mutant baby slaughtering a theaterful of screaming kids. Episode 2, “The Thing in the Dark,” debuts a strangely charming opening credits […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for It, It: Chapter Two, and It: Welcome to Derry. Many Constant Readers believe that, despite publishing more than eighty titles in the last fifty years, Stephen King is actually writing a single, massive novel. His sprawling worlds may twist through a multitude of dimensions, but many of his […]
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“A coven deprived of its leader is like a headless cobra” What constitutes a coven of witches and what must one do to become its queen? Since the earliest examples of narrative fiction, humans have created stories about these occult practitioners, musing on the various rules that govern their powers. Despite generations of wisdom, there […]
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There’s no one way to define a horror movie. Because fear is a uniquely subjective and individualized experience, disparate viewers find terror in a variety of tales, themes, and topics. CEO and co-founder of NEON Rated, LLC, Tom Quinn has built an empire on pursuing films not targeted to specific genre fans. Following the production […]
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On the surface, Ed Gein and Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen) have very little in common. One lived with his domineering mother on the plains of snowy Wisconsin, while the other, a creation of director Tobe Hooper, keeps a house full of unruly men in the brutal heat of the Texas heartland. Gein was a shy and […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for The Black Phone and Black Phone 2. If Gen X has a boogeyman, it’s arguably the Man in the Windowless Van. Alongside memories of blissfully roaming unsupervised suburbs are warnings to avoid anyone in this particular vehicle lest you wind up on the side of a milk carton. […]
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