This is the true story of The Hills Have Eyes… In 1974, Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre shocked the world with its family of cannibalistic killers lurking in rural Texas. A few years later, in 1977, horror legend Wes Craven released The Hills Have Eyes, a film about a brutal struggle […]
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Bet on Bigelow. After reaching the end of the road on our Underseen or Underrated?” theme with the queer, DIY aesthetics of Death Drop Gorgeous, we then returned to our regular programming with an analysis of Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom and a Spring Break celebration with Alexandre Aja’s 2010 schlock-fest Piranha 3D. Now we head back […]
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Second chances are rare in Hollywood. For Sam Raimi, his second shot was also a case of deja vu. By 1985, the Michigan filmmaker was licking his wounds following the disappointing reception surrounding Crimewave. So, he did what anyone else might do: He gathered up his best friends and returned to the woods to conjure […]
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While we may have missed last week, Neil and I are back with a vengeance for this month’s Horror Bytes! For April’s edition of Horror Bytes, in which Neil and I each highlight four bite-sized horror experiences, we’ve done our damndest to find a varied crop of spooky slices of horror. If anything, our picks […]
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The heat is on across King’s Dominion. So, once again, The Losers’ Club is putting on their shades, revving up their Plymouth Fury convertible, and feeling the breeze in Hollywood King. It’s another high-octane news episode that finds Losers Michael Roffman, Jenn Adams, Justin Gerber, and Randall Colburn cycling through all the latest Stephen King headlines. […]
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Spring Break Boobies. After reaching the end of the road on our “underseen or underrated?” theme with the queer, DIY aesthetics of Death Drop Gorgeous and returning to our regular programming with an analysis of Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom, we’re going to celebrate Spring Break a little late with bikinis and boobs in Alexandre Aja‘s 2010 schlock-fest […]
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“You can forget about Stephen King. Cane outsells them all.” Is horror writer Sutter Cane a harmless pop phenomenon or is he a deadly mad prophet of the printed page? The Losers will find out on today’s episode which sees them heading to the remote (and seemingly fictional) town of Hobb’s End. It’s here they […]
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A week ago, the Halloweenies ventured into the woods of Tennessee for a much-needed cabin trip after their year in Woodsboro. On the agenda was what you might expect: a little R&R, some good cooking, maybe even a bonfire. All of that went out the window when they found a reel-to-reel player, four microphones, and […]
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Not Your Grindr’s Voyeurism We spent the better part of 2.5 months exploring an “underseen or underrated?” theme, including Gaspar Noé’s Climax and Kurtis David Harder‘s Spiral before wrapping up with Michael J. Ahern, Brandon Perras and Christopher Dalpe‘s independent film Death Drop Gorgeous last week. Now that we’re free of the 2010s, Trace and I are jumping back to 1960 […]
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There’s simply wearing influences on one’s sleeve, and then there’s using those influences to craft a fully realized vision of horror. And ten years later, Jasper Byrne’s Lone Survivor is very much the latter. In Lone Survivor, the player traverses a world ravaged by an unknown plague being made all the more hellish by encountering […]
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“No bounce, no play…” Few Stephen King novels have as lousy a reputation as Dreamcatcher. It was the first fiction novel he released following his near-fatal 1999 accident, and the author famously wrote it while blown out of his mind on painkillers. And, yeah, it’s a weird book. There’s telepathic aliens, viral mold, psychotic government […]
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Dick in 5 Minutes. We’ve reached the end of the road on our “underseen or underrated?” theme. For the last three months we’ve been discussing films of the 2010s using that barometer and after a month that included Darren Aronofsky‘s mother!, Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation, Gaspar Noé’s Climax and Kurtis David Harder‘s Spiral, we’re finally up […]
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Remakes and remasters have been a contentious topic in the gaming world for the better part of two decades. Developers find themselves in the seemingly impossible high wire act of evolving on a game’s past while ensuring not to alter its storied identity. And that’s even before passionate fandom input is involved. This balance has […]
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In the Fall of 1979, a Michigan State filmmaker and his childhood friends ventured into the Tennessee woods to make a horror movie. What started out as a dream quickly devolved into a nightmare: a grueling series of weeks involving buckets of fake blood, myriad near-death experiences, ricocheting emotions, and dozens of sleepless nights. It’s […]
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As the driving force behind The Mountain Goats, John Darnielle has long been lauded for his rich, dense lyricism, where emotional landmines lay in wait beside deep references to classic literature, forgotten history, and pop cultural ephemera. The prolific songwriter published his debut novel, Wolf In White Van, in 2014, and that knotty and genre-steeped […]
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