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Fern Patterson, meet Robert Klingher. Robert Klingher, meet the business end of a guillotine. Robert Klingher (Vincent Martella) is the overly possessive and downright annoying high school boyfriend we all knew in our formative teenage years. Perhaps one or two of us even was that […]
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Imagine if you will the Massachusetts wilderness. Although today pockmarked by small towns and industrial cities, Massachusetts was once a vast forest. In the 1630s, the Puritans, those somber-faced people in felt hats and white coifs, mostly kept to the coast, for outside of the […]
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The Rondo Awards honor the year’s best in classic horror research, creativity, and film preservation and for those of us who are involved in those pursuits, the Rondos are a big deal. It’s our Pulitzer. Our Oscars. So it goes without saying that we at […]
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Early success in Hollywood, whether for child actors or one-hit wonders, leads more often to ostracism than Oscars. Take the case of Alan Miller. Here’s a self-professed Shakespearian actor whose career has been stuck in reverse for 20 years. Is he waiting tables? No, he’s […]
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We’re all familiar with horror movie clichés. Let’s face it, fright films may be the most parodied of all genres. The Wayans brothers and their affiliates turned the Scream franchise into comedy gold with their Scary Movie collection. Cabin in the Woods ranks as both […]
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One would be hard pressed to find a name more English than Vaughn Entwistle. I’ve certainly never heard anything that oozes tea and crumpets quite like it. On top of it all, Mr. Entwistle is the author of an oh-so English novel—The Angel of Highgate. […]
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Director Rob Michels’ The Lurking is the latest bit of underground ichor from the Wisconsin-based production company Screaming Like Banshees. This outfit has bestowed consumers of crazy, confrontational, micro-budgeted movies with a sick cinematic smorgasbord over the past couple years (see their contributions to 2014’s […]
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Amy Thomsett found herself sleeping one too many times on the ceiling, so it’s off to boarding school for this young girl with the ability to float. So begins Kim Newman’s The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School. As a title, it’s a mouthful. As a […]
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A lot of this film looks and feels like something Guillermo Del Toro would have made some twenty years ago. There’s an ambitious vision behind the camera with Children of the Night and while it doesn’t always translate into an excellent film, there’s enough to […]
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If you humanoids are inclined to hear classic tales of terror in spoken form, you can spend hours wandering the digital catacombs of YouTube and other such websites and find the works of Poe, Lovecraft, King and more. The quality of these verbal frights varies […]
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