One tagline for He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not (À la folie… pas du tout) reads: “Is she crazy in love, or just crazy?” In what appears to be a standard film d’amour, Audrey Tautou’s character Angélique is a woman in love with love. She has been swept up in a whirlwind romance like […]
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This installment finds us cutting into the first proposed spinoff of Showtime’s popular serial killer series Dexter, featuring Six Feet Under star Michael C. Hall as the eponymous murderer-of-murderers. While that show eventually received a follow-up late last year in the form of original Dexter showrunner Clyde Phillips’ Dexter: New Blood, its executive producer Scott […]
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From shining a light on contemporary social issues to offering an escape from the oppression of mundanity, there’s no understating the importance of movies in popular culture. With that in mind, it’s no surprise that meta-cinema has existed since the dawn of the artform, with storytellers exploring the impact that these films can have on […]
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At around three or four I saw my first horror movie – it was the 1941 classic The Wolfman. As a kid, I didn’t register what horror was at the time, I was just wild for Halloween. It was a time of the year where I could feel the most like me; getting into costumes […]
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For this month’s installment of “TV Terrors” we chomp back into Hulu‘s short-lived zombie series “Freakish,” which aired on Hulu for two seasons between 2016 and 2018. There’s just something appealing to a lot of horror creators about mixing the school setting with flesh-eating zombies. Clashing teen hormones with the undead just seems to be […]
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It’s Groundhog Day, a strange little holiday overshadowed by a popular Bill Murray comedy that sees his selfish character become a better person thanks to a bizarre time loop. It’s a fascinating concept that can turn downright sinister within the realm of horror. So we’re celebrating Groundhog Day by revisiting ten horror and sci-fi time […]
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We revisit The Curve… a Matthew Lillard horror movie you might’ve missed… Scream is rightly regarded as a classic these days, but that was not the case following its release in 1996. Much like Saw a decade later, the derision toward Scream had little to do with the original film; it largely stemmed from the […]
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I walked out of Scream with a smile on my face. And no, it’s not because I get my jollies from watching teenagers and otherwise competent adults get sliced and diced by a maniac in a mask. Scream successfully reinvents the franchise and is the most audacious entry in the series to date. Rather than […]
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I walked out of Scream with a smile on my face. And no, it’s not because I get my jollies from watching teenagers and otherwise competent adults get sliced and diced by a maniac in a mask. Scream successfully reinvents the franchise and is the most audacious entry in the series to date. Rather than […]
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Most people think of Resident Evil when you mention the words “Survival Horror”, and rightfully so. Of course, you get old-school gamers who will also mention Capcom’s Sweet Home or Infrogrames’ Alone in the Dark. But before all of that, Atari had its own makings of the genre in 1982’s Haunted House. Being released for […]
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When I was a kid, a family friend gifted me the Jurassic Park VHS. The cover was black, shiny, stamped with the iconic image of the T-rex skeleton designed by Chipp Kid. It was love at first watch; dinosaurs became my everything. I joined the masses of those caught in the ‘90s dinosaur renaissance, the […]
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The image of Sally Hardesty screaming in the back of a pickup truck, just narrowly escaping from Leatherface’s chainsaw blade with her life, is one of the most enduring and iconic images in all of horror history, that moment of course found in the final moments of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Many […]
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Jaume Collet-Serra‘s 2005 House of Wax remake is a mashup of influences and intentions. It’s supposedly based on Andre DeToth‘s 1953 thriller of the same name, itself a remake of 1933’s Mystery of the Wax Museum — but you couldn’t tell based on watches alone. Collet-Serra admits in Fangoria Magazine that his House of Wax […]
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Zombie movies tend to focus on the survivors trying to evade getting bitten while grappling with the fall of civilization. That usually results in an emphasis on characterization, which brings a wide variety of memorable villains, heroes, and supporting players to raise the stakes as we root for or against them during a zombie apocalypse. […]
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They hide in plain sight and escape detection; they exemplify irrational evil. And the second they show their true colors, it may already be too late to fight back. Murder is their business, and wearing down prey is their game. The glut of killers in pop culture today does not erase the fact that these […]
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