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Perugia is an ancient Etruscan city that sits in the heart of the Italian region of Umbria. For most, this central city is synonymous with the University of Perugia, which was founded in 1308 and well over a hundred years before Columbus even had a […]
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“The Devil, he been with you a long time….” Recompense is a short film about a man that’s locked up one day and finds he’s sharing a cell with a mysterious man who offers a way out of this predicament. James is a down-on-his-luck lower-class […]
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A family tragedy compels a young couple to trade their city life for one in the country. They end up purchasing a secluded house, complete with no internet, gas, or the utilities that most of us can’t live without. To make matters worse, the house […]
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Truth or Dare, the directorial debut from ascending scream queen Jessica Cameron, is one of those rare movies that inspires an irrational compulsion to bathe. In fact, this reviewer’s thoughts became sanitarily grandiose after watching this exercise in sadistic cinema. A hot shower? A man-sized […]
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GODZILLA (2014): “Return of the King” “History shows again and again How nature points out the folly of man…” —Godzilla Blue Oyster Cult If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. A trite cliché, but one that applies most definitely to this year’s reboot […]
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All our legends die. One day, Savage Readers, we’ll sign on to Facebook and find out that Stephen King, Clive Barker, Anne Rice, and John Carpenter are crafted of the same mortal maggot-meat we all are. On May 12th, Swiss artist Hans Rudolf Giger died […]
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Hunting after the obscure and arcane has always been a fixture of the horror genre. That’s why Peter Straub’s Mr. X is an apt metaphor for the entire experience of reading horror fiction: we, the readers, look for the mysterious man (or woman) behind the […]
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What can go wrong when a group of teenagers retreats to a secluded cabin for a vacation filled with sexual tension and mind-altering substances? Director Richard Gray’s The Evil Within promises to answer this perennial question for the horror-hungry masses on May 6th. Luckily, as […]
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From the darkness has curiosity ever reached out and struck you? Has it caused you to wonder about your favorite genre writers and what’s on their bookshelves? It’s reached out and struck me. Do they have some classic pulp detective novels? What about graphic novel […]
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“Seven dreamers…” Like most horror fanatics, Alien was my first venture into the world of science-fiction terror. The film evokes such an inky black feeling of dread and tension, it remains to this day a film that sticks with me days after I re-watch it. […]
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