19 Things We Learned from the ‘April Fool’s Day’ Commentary

Another year, another April Fool’s Day come and gone without a single funny prank online. The day has lost its luster since the advent of the internet, but happily, we’ll always have 1986’s pseudo-slasher classic, April Fool’s Day, to remember how fun it used to be. Director Fred Walton is best known for his feature […]

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19 Things We Learned from the ‘April Fool’s Day’ Commentary

Another year, another April Fool’s Day come and gone without a single funny prank online. The day has lost its luster since the advent of the internet, but happily, we’ll always have 1986’s pseudo-slasher classic, April Fool’s Day, to remember how fun it used to be. Director Fred Walton is best known for his feature […]

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Enjoyed ‘Exit 8’? Here Are 6 More Mind-Bending Horror Movies

An unexpected image and a loud noise are all you really need to briefly scare an audience, but it takes an especially skilled filmmaker to come up with lasting frights that stick with you long after the credits roll. These intellectual scares often involve warping the laws of nature itself and making viewers question if […]

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Enjoyed ‘Exit 8’? Here Are 6 More Mind-Bending Horror Movies

An unexpected image and a loud noise are all you really need to briefly scare an audience, but it takes an especially skilled filmmaker to come up with lasting frights that stick with you long after the credits roll. These intellectual scares often involve warping the laws of nature itself and making viewers question if […]

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She is Risen: Make ‘The First Omen’ an Easter Horror Tradition

When horror fans talk about The First Omen, Arkasha Stevenson‘s wildly entertaining and stunningly elegant prequel to The Omen, they tend to focus on one scene in particular. As the film reaches its climax its protagonist, Margaret (Nell Tiger Free), realizes that she is pregnant with the literal spawn of Satan, and in one of […]

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She is Risen: Make ‘The First Omen’ an Easter Horror Tradition

When horror fans talk about The First Omen, Arkasha Stevenson‘s wildly entertaining and stunningly elegant prequel to The Omen, they tend to focus on one scene in particular. As the film reaches its climax its protagonist, Margaret (Nell Tiger Free), realizes that she is pregnant with the literal spawn of Satan, and in one of […]

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Jamie Blanks’ ‘Urban Legend’ and ‘Valentine’ Reflect a Dangerous World Through Its Cutthroat Women

Few subgenres in horror are so maligned as the ’90s slasher. Aside from the meta-perfection of Wes Craven’s Scream, many are dismissed as toothless copycats or formulaic retreads of familiar concepts. But there’s a surprising amount of gold to mine in the last gasp of 20th-century horror. Not only are ’90s slashers usually stylish and […]

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Jamie Blanks’ ‘Urban Legend’ and ‘Valentine’ Reflect a Dangerous World Through Its Cutthroat Women

Few subgenres in horror are so maligned as the ’90s slasher. Aside from the meta-perfection of Wes Craven’s Scream, many are dismissed as toothless copycats or formulaic retreads of familiar concepts. But there’s a surprising amount of gold to mine in the last gasp of 20th-century horror. Not only are ’90s slashers usually stylish and […]

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Blood In the Bleak Midwinter: The Satanic Horror of February

There’s something distinctly February-coded about Satanic Horror. The shortest month of the year may be dominated by a romantic holiday, but the days themselves feel icy and cold. The twinkling lights of Christmas have long since gone out, and we’re so far away from spring that it often feels as if the sun never fully […]

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Blood In the Bleak Midwinter: The Satanic Horror of February

There’s something distinctly February-coded about Satanic Horror. The shortest month of the year may be dominated by a romantic holiday, but the days themselves feel icy and cold. The twinkling lights of Christmas have long since gone out, and we’re so far away from spring that it often feels as if the sun never fully […]

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Blood In the Bleak Midwinter: The Satanic Horror of February

There’s something distinctly February-coded about Satanic Horror. The shortest month of the year may be dominated by a romantic holiday, but the days themselves feel icy and cold. The twinkling lights of Christmas have long since gone out, and we’re so far away from spring that it often feels as if the sun never fully […]

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Blood In the Bleak Midwinter: The Satanic Horror of February

There’s something distinctly February-coded about Satanic Horror. The shortest month of the year may be dominated by a romantic holiday, but the days themselves feel icy and cold. The twinkling lights of Christmas have long since gone out, and we’re so far away from spring that it often feels as if the sun never fully […]

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10 Years After Release, Haunted House Game ‘Anatomy’ Still Has Teeth [Retrospective]

I’ve often worried that I would never experience a piece of media that made me feel like House of Leaves did. I don’t mean I’m looking for something that plays with form in the same way, though that was a big part of the novel that made it such a touchstone for me, but rather […]

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10 Years After Release, Haunted House Game ‘Anatomy’ Still Has Teeth [Retrospective]

I’ve often worried that I would never experience a piece of media that made me feel like House of Leaves did. I don’t mean I’m looking for something that plays with form in the same way, though that was a big part of the novel that made it such a touchstone for me, but rather […]

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Super Mutants, Ron Perlman, and More: Six Things We Want to See in ‘Fallout’ Season 3

As the smoke clears on Prime Video’s latest venture into the Post-Nuclear Wasteland, fans are left wondering what’s next for the Fallout TV show. After all, the second season basically ended on a cliffhanger where all the established factions seem ready for war, so it seems like anything goes in the show’s future. With that […]

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