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How Rick Baker Inspired the ‘V/H/S/Halloween’ Segment Pitched as an R-Rated ‘Goosebumps’ Episode

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The popular found footage franchise V/H/S brings the holiday spirit with its latest entry, V/H/S/Halloween, featuring six segments of Halloween horror carnage and mayhem. “Home Haunt,” the segment written and directed by filmmaking duo Micheline Pitt-Norman & R.H. Norman, comes closest to capturing the classic Halloween aesthetic with a story centered around a home haunt gone […]

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‘An American Werewolf in London’ – Watch the Iconic Transformation With the Original Rejected Score!

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Remember those never-before-seen outtakes from William Friedkin’s The Exorcist that we shared with you for Halloween? That rare footage came courtesy of Paul Davis, who directed Beware the Moon: Remembering An American Werewolf in London as well as the films The Body and Uncanny Annie (both part of Blumhouse’s anthology series “Into the Dark”). Davis is back this week with […]

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The Iconic Transformation Scene in ‘An American Werewolf in London’ Remains an All-Timer [Scene Screams]

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Scene Screams is a recurring column that spotlights the scenes in horror that make us scream, whether through fear, laughter, or tears. It examines the most memorable, and often scariest, scenes in horror and what it is about them that makes them get under our skin.  So much about An American Werewolf in London makes it a standout […]

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“Too Funny for Horror and Too Scary for Comedy” – 40 Years of ‘An American Werewolf in London’

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From Greek mythology’s Lycaon to modern-day Michigan Dogman sightings, werewolves and their regional variants have prowled our imagination since time immemorial. While most cultures had their own particular rules and conventions regarding these creatures (the full-moon shtick is actually a relatively recent addition to the lore), the monster that we now know as the werewolf […]

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Celebrating ‘The Frighteners’ at 25 and Peter Jackson’s Magical World of Miniatures

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Many of the best effects tend to go unheralded. Those effects are so well done that audiences never even realize what they’re seeing is an effect at all; it’s just taken for granted. The Frighteners, first released 25 years ago in theaters on July 19, 1996, marks a transitional film for filmmaker Peter Jackson as well as his […]

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