In a world that’s becoming increasingly more literal by the year, it’s intoxicating to realize that your eyes have betrayed you. For many fans of genre filmmaking, that feeling is what initially pulled our tastes towards the bizarre and dream-like. It’s a realm containing stories that give us permission to discard the rational portions of […]
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It’s no secret that horror too often elicits kneejerk reactions from narrow-minded critics who, for some reason or another, aren’t willing to give its particular brand of storytelling a fair shake. There are countless examples of films that have received lukewarm to scathing critiques from reviewers upon their release only to be embraced as classics […]
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Bigfoot’s relationship with the horror genre is a strange one. On its own, the idea of a towering woodland ape is pretty pants-shittingly scary, especially if you happen to be contemplating the legendary cryptid while in the middle of a deep dark forest. However, for some strange reason, that terror too often gets lost when […]
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Maybe more than any other character in the pantheon of horror villain legends, Freddy Krueger was custom built to put the fear of god into us. Nothing about his presence was thrown together haphazardly. Instead, nearly every aspect of his design had a tremendous amount of thought put into it. From makeup effects great David […]
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Stephen King’s creative output is the stuff of legend. The number of stories that have flowed from that man’s brain, like water from a tap that can’t be shut off, is staggering. They’ve been followed by a similarly jaw-dropping number of film and television adaptations, to the point that some have argued the best of […]
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“An egotistical tabloid reporter attempts to track down a vampire/amateur pilot who’s been feasting on the unlucky inhabitants of several rural airfields.” This premise shouldn’t have worked. It too closely resembles something thrown out during a high school creative writing class that’s gone off the rails. But Stephen King, who has done some of his […]
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