Reviews

Reviews, anecdotes, and the like related to Halloween, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, or the bizarre.

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Netflix Delivers Again with Stranger Things

SPOILERS AHEAD There are a lot of great shows on television right now. Not just good, but great. However, there are very few shows that transcend being just great, into something more, something that is no longer just visual storytelling, but so immersive it’s like a ride, an emotional journey or experience. The list of

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Ghostbusters 2016 Review: Girl Power Forced to Battle Ghosts and Bland Script!

“Dogs and cats living together, MASS HYSTERIA!” “Mass Hysteria” … ain’t that the truth! It feels like the population of planet Earth has been talking about Paul Feig’s new Ghostbusters movie FOREVER! And when I say talking, I actually mean arguing, moaning, and panicking! I’m surprised the damn thing didn’t bring about the END OF

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Tooth Busters: Awesome New Ghostbusters Candy Invading the UK!

The population of Britain will probably never get to taste that elusive nectar they call ECTO COOLER … but the creative folks at World of Sweets are trying their best to cheer us up by releasing a TORRENT of official Ghostbusters candy and sweets! If you were following the site last year you may have

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The Walking Dead — The Night the Good Guys Became the Baddest Guys

As we head deeper and deeper into the world of The Walking Dead, the lines between “good” and “evil” are blurring so much that they’re becoming hard to see. It’s something that has been happening over the course of the last several seasons, as countless episodes have documented individual struggles characters have had with embracing

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Movie Review — Hangman (2016)

Nearly twenty years after The Blair Witch Project popularized the POV style, found footage films are still coming at us hot and heavy, though the smart ones understand how tired we are of the gimmick. It’s no longer enough to give a character a handheld camera and place him into a horrifying situation, and so

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How Martyrs Turned “Torture Porn” into High Art

There are few labels that have done more damage to the horror genre than “torture porn,” a term that has been applied to films like Hostel and the Saw franchise. What the term essentially implies is that the films labeled with it are bereft of substance, making them the horror genre’s version of, well, pornography.

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Movie Review — Deathgasm (2015)

When listing off the most influential horror movies of all time, I don’t think anyone would argue with Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead being put right up there with George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. Both films are responsible for spawning so many cool movies – and bad ones, but let’s focus on the