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The Horror Realm Convention recently kicked off the early spring with its one day March celebration. Erupting onto the scene with celebrity guests, horror fans, and dozens of talented local vendors, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania experienced the mad influx of all things horror and zombie. Having been […]
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The Cabin in the Woods might be the most generic title for a horror movie you’ll ever hear, but I’m willing to bet it will be the most creative horror movie you’ll ever see. Co-writer Joss Whedon has called the film “a very loving hate […]
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Last week, author Dana Fredsti’s Plague Town: An Ashley Parker Novel was unleashed upon unsuspecting horror fans by a sinister entity known as Titan Books. And while Ashley Parker deserves top billing, the novel is, in fact, a full on zombie book. Scared yet? Another. […]
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Clerical Terrors: How to Translate a Tome of Eldritch Horror Without Looking Like a Dumb-Ass[1] Arabic is a nuanced language of great complexity, and mistakes are easy to make for the newcomer. I learned this the hard way when I asked a pharmacist for insecticide […]
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SPOILERS AHEAD! Season two of The Walking Dead on AMC is now safely in the rearview mirror and after unabashedly heaping praise upon this rare gem of TV terror in my Midterm Report Card, my initial take on the first half of season two remains […]
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The review you’re currently perusing is the final installment of the DEAD Journal series at RavenousMonster.com. The series, subtitled “Diary of an Indie Filmmaker”, is just that. In early 2011, RavMon contributor Justin Hamelin brought to my attention his plans to direct his first short […]
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It has been 34 years since John Carpenter played that now infamous piano melody in a 5/4 time signature. Who would have ever thought that such a tune would strike fear into so many individuals? John Carpenter? Maybe. If he didn’t, I can’t imagine why […]
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Greetings, fear fiends! It is certainly true to say that we lovers of the macabre and the morbid are not satisfied with just one scary story…we like them to come in bunches! Hence, the great popularity of horror anthologies, in both printed and film form. […]
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Over the last century-plus of cinema (the first known horror movie was shot in 1896 — Le Manoir Du Diable), the horror genre has evolved and revolved, broken down and built up, reused and recycled. Ideas have been created and recreated, icons have been made […]
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“The Mothman is coming to get you.” From first recollection, these are the words that once haunted me. Most would substitute the above phrase with the words, “Barbara, they’re coming to get you,” and it would have the same effect on them as this did […]
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