There’s something about Pennsylvania that gets Stephen King thinking about killer cars. Maybe it’s the rolling hills? Or his appreciation for fellow Master of Horror George A. Romero? Whatever the case, like 1983’s Christine, his 2002 novel From a Buick takes place outside Pittsburgh, only this car doesn’t vroom, vroom. No, this one is more […]
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Now that they’ve officially closed the book on Ashley Williams’ Kandarian adventures — after covering all three seasons of Ash vs. Evil Dead — the Halloweenies have a new block of wood to axe through: Fede Alvarez’s 2013 remake/reboot/requel Evil Dead. That conversation is still weeks away, so to bide the time, they reflected on […]
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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. Yes, it’s another high-octane news episode that finds Losers Michael Roffman, Justin Gerber, Ashley Casseday, and Randall Colburn cycling through all the latest Stephen King […]
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“The night, it’s deafening.” There are vampire films, and then there is Near Dark. A high watermark to the gluttonous guff of the genre, Kathryn Bigelow‘s 1987 gem remains a stealth entry in the pantheon of vampiric content. It’s smart, it’s dirty, it’s unforgiving, and it’s stylish, all qualities that so many imitators have tried […]
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Busy times for The Losers’ Club. Earlier this month, the gang delivered not one, but two book episodes on Stephen King‘s 2002 collection Everything’s Eventual. Last week, they checked into the Dolphin Hotel to meet up with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson in 2007’s 1408. Now, they’re rounding out their coverage by revisiting TNT’s […]
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“Swear to me. Swear to me that if IT isn’t dead, we’ll all come back.” By now, you’ve heard it a million times: “You know, Pennywise did for clowns what Jaws did for beaches.” Here’s why: In November of 1990, Stephen King‘s 1986 novel IT became a thing of nightmares for an entire generation when […]
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In October 2015, two decades after Army of Darkness and only two short years after the franchise had been seemingly rebooted, Ashley Williams (Bruce Campell) returned to the saw with Starz’ Ash vs. Evil Dead. To everyone’s surprise — deadites, included — the genre-defying series managed to last not one, not two, but three whole […]
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In October 2015, two decades after Army of Darkness and only two short years after the franchise had been seemingly rebooted, Ashley Williams (Bruce Campell) returned to the saw with Starz’ Ash vs. Evil Dead. To everyone’s surprise — deadites, included — the genre-defying series managed to last not one, not two, but three whole […]
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In October 2015, two decades after Army of Darkness and only two short years after the franchise had been seemingly rebooted, Ashley Williams (Bruce Campell) returned to the saw with Starz’ Ash vs. Evil Dead. To everyone’s surprise — deadites, included — the genre-defying series managed to last not one, not two, but three whole […]
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“Finally! Something to for me to write about! A ghost that offers turn down service!” To date, The Losers’ Club has stayed at the Neibolt House. They’ve brushed their goddamn teeth right next to the tub where Ms. Lorraine Massey decomposed, and they stopped being afraid of vampires back in 2017. Do you know why […]
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It’s been four long years. Haddonfield has moved on. But traditions never die, especially evil. This October, heads will roll alongside pumpkins when Michael Myers returns yet again in David Gordon Green‘s trilogy capper Halloween Ends. On Tuesday night, Blumhouse Productions and Universal Pictures dropped the highly anticipated teaser trailer for the next Halloween sequel. […]
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“Hotel rooms are just naturally creepy places, don’t you think? I mean, how many people have slept in that bed before you? How many of them were sick? How many were losing their minds? How many were thinking about reading a few final verses from the Bible in the drawer of the nightstand beside them […]
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After being dragged across hell in June, the Halloweenies are back in the woods this month to saw through all three seasons of Starz’s Ash Vs. Evil Dead. Before they reunite with Ash Williams and his Ghost Beaters, however, they’ve decided to reflect on similar horror TV shows of yesteryear, while also meditating on IP […]
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“Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.” By 2002, Stephen King had more than bounced back from his 1999 accident. He put his stamp on the e-book with both The Plant and Riding the Bullet, revisited sci-fi with the hallucinatory […]
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Don Henley failed to mention it in his 1984 hit, but Stephen King is certainly a boy of the summer. Whether it’s venturing outside of Castle Rock to see a dead body or evading shapeshifting clowns in the barrens of Derry, the best-selling author has carved out a number of parables that make us sweat […]
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